Recent Comments:
Apple patent reveals 'iPhone gloves' for warmer hands-on experience {Engadget}
Jan 2nd 2009 7:27PM To quote Apple (channeling OJ through Johnnie Cochrane): "If it doesn't fit, you *still* remit!"
Takara Tomy Xiao printer-camera excretes prints {Engadget}
Dec 28th 2008 6:54PM From the Hind of Minolta... Constipiction!
The solid gold Vertu Boucheron 150 makes us hate humanity {Engadget}
Dec 10th 2008 12:11PM Perfect for making a Quantum of Calls, ass...
Carbon fiber door boasts biometric scanner, $15,000 sticker {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2008 9:47PM Perfect device for Door-ks... nuk nuk nuk!
Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector finds draft areas in your abode {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2008 7:25PM Niche product catering to draft dodgers...
Microsoft to push cool factor with retro-inspired clothing line {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2008 2:44PM The back features the, um, blue silk-screen of death?
Wakamaru's latest gig: distraught thespian, clothes rack {Engadget}
Nov 26th 2008 12:34PM Her most memorable line:
Hew spree, Kill-Bot hew spree?
That is my quest, mon...
Urine recycling equipment passes tests, no one willing to take the first sip {Engadget}
Nov 26th 2008 12:10PM Factoid: A full 17% of the ISS's solar power is devoted to removing that 'asparagus' smell from recycled urine (damn Ukrainians!)
Dell adds $100 32GB SSD option to Inspiron Mini 9 {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2008 9:52PM "...which is a $100 upgrade over the standard 4GB SSD." I think phrasing it: "which is a $25 upgrade over the 16GB SSD model" is more useful as it's really quite hard to believe that many are ordering the 4GB version these days.
BlackBerry Storm: the aftermath {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2008 8:52PM Dearest Verizon,
I *desperately* wanted to love--or even like--the uber-hyped latest issue from your and RIM's loins--particularly as you are my only reasonable choice given the RF and carrier vagaries of my central California geographic milieu...
Unfortunately, following brief, intense--stormy--encounters with this newest and slickest of slates over the course of two 15 minute sessions at your local corporate store I found the Imperfect Storm *so* annoying and *so* off-putting regarding laggardly subprime UI and what I can only describe as generalized reek of 'not-ready-for-prime-timeness' -- that I just couldn't pull the trigger...
Hell's bells--now my fall-back plan's reduced to waiting for the next iteration of the iPhone (June or July '09?) and praying that AT&T's slapped up enough new towerage in my area by then that they represent a viable alternative; until then, I guess there's always the Dare, though admittedly, it pales by caparison (horse drawn metaphor).
My underlying fear? Verizon has become the de facto 'GM' of cell providers and through ongoing paucity of leadership/innovation and demonstrated and undoubtedly unsustainable self-satisfied smugness--is inexorably transmogrifying 'illustrious carrier' into 'ignominious carrion'...
Sincerely yours,
Smart-phoneless in San Luis (Obispo, that is)
