I picked up a Seidio P6800 hard shell for my HTC Mogul. Yes, $25 is a ripoff in my opinion, but that’s your call to make on your own. Installation is a 10 second breeze. It comes in 2 pieces, each having tiny edge-grabbing “feet” in key spots to latch onto the top half and keyboard respectively. The only downside I have found so far is that the surface texture is grippy. Great for grip, but it makes it hard to remove from your pocket due to the pocket cloth grabbing. Anyway, here are pictures.
This weekend, Jessica and I bought a pre-owned Fender Sonoran SCE acoustic-electric guitar from Sam Ash in Clearwater. I think we got out the door for around $399 after a $20 Hartke tuner, a $10 floor stand, the instructional book and DVD below, and a 2 year service plan thing for $35.
We played last night, following along to Alfred’s Basic Guitar Method 1, until the tips of our middle fingers couldn’t handle any more G notes.
I think it goes without saying that I referred to it as our “axe” for “shredding” all night long. I don’t think she got the Jake and Amir reference, but that’s okay.
Here’s the guitar in all its glory.
PS: I also got a good candid shot of Jessica.
It occured to me today that Wii Sports Baseball could have been improved quite a bit without losing its simplicity. I mean, let’s face it, when all you do is either pitch the ball or hit the ball, things get boring.
As it is, the number of bases rounded is purely a matter of the software making a determination based on where the ball lands in relation to fielders. Isn’t it pretty much a no-brainer to have added “shake the wiimote up and down as fast as you can to run to the bases” ? Likewise, it seems a no brainer to have added “shake the wiimote up and down as fast as you can to get the ball fielded and thrown back in as fast as possible”. Or why not let the pitching player, once the ball is being fielded, point and select the base he or she wants the ball thrown to?
Continuing from Part 1 of N, it’s time I got the device doing what I want it to be doing.
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There’s a sarcastic non-conformist (nihilistic?) saying, “Eat healthy, don’t smoke, get hit by a bus anyway.”
There’s a period in most people’s lives where they consider this saying and convince themselves that it might possibly be a valid mentality.
There’s a second period in most people’s lives. It’s only a few seconds long, but at the end of it you consider the “Eat healthy, don’t smoke, get hit by a bus anyway.” mentality to be foolish nonsense.
The third (and final) period is called one of being old or getting wise. Which one is it? Choose carefully. - JB
