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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year!
I'm enjoying a quiet night at home with my g/f, cat, and a bottle of Prosecco. NYE has never lived up to expectations for me, so I'm taking control of it and doing what I want to do: chill. See you on the other side!
Monday, December 28, 2009
New Year's Resolutions
I've made good on some New Year's resolutions in the past, so I go into January with a lot of optimism around making positive changes. Thus far I've got three ideas for 2010:
1) Lose weight. This one is pretty important. My God-awful diet and sedentary lifestyle have left with me quite the spare tire. Time to get on top this.
2) Write. I desperately need a creative outlet, and I'm going to take a crack at creative writing. During my early 20s I scratched this itch with music, but for the past three years all I've done is work. Enough is enough.
3) Kant und Hegel. I dropped out of graduate school pretty early, but my lack of comprehension for German Idealism still bothers me. I'm going to take a slow approach and incorporate some secondary sources. No goal of mastery here, just a baseline understanding.
1) Lose weight. This one is pretty important. My God-awful diet and sedentary lifestyle have left with me quite the spare tire. Time to get on top this.
2) Write. I desperately need a creative outlet, and I'm going to take a crack at creative writing. During my early 20s I scratched this itch with music, but for the past three years all I've done is work. Enough is enough.
3) Kant und Hegel. I dropped out of graduate school pretty early, but my lack of comprehension for German Idealism still bothers me. I'm going to take a slow approach and incorporate some secondary sources. No goal of mastery here, just a baseline understanding.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Hello down there!
For the first time in my life I have internet at 35K feet. If this becomes the norm in the near future, I definitely *have* to get a netbook. Pretty neat.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Yelp Comes to Android
I've been waiting for Yelp to arrive on Android ever since I got my G1 last year. Living in NYC, it is extremely useful. My girlfriend has had it on her iPhone for a long time now, and by default she has hitherto assumed the odious role of "Yelp bitch." Now when we are downtown in the cold looking for some place to eat after a movie, I too can tap away on my phone to find a suitable restaurant. I suspect this may reduce tension in our relationship by 2.3%. Not bad.
Less personally, the arrival of Yelp on Android has me asking a fundamental question about the iPhone's dominance: sure, 100K+ apps is impressive, but as the best of breed continue to appear on Android (Yelp, Pandora & Last FM, Foursquare, Flixster, Twitter (via Twidroid), Facebook), what does volume matter? How much do we value fart applications by the truckload?
I am separating out games as I think this through. The reason being that we are only now seeing Android phones with proper hardware to support this subset of applications. For non-games, though, I think there may be some equalizing afoot.
Less personally, the arrival of Yelp on Android has me asking a fundamental question about the iPhone's dominance: sure, 100K+ apps is impressive, but as the best of breed continue to appear on Android (Yelp, Pandora & Last FM, Foursquare, Flixster, Twitter (via Twidroid), Facebook), what does volume matter? How much do we value fart applications by the truckload?
I am separating out games as I think this through. The reason being that we are only now seeing Android phones with proper hardware to support this subset of applications. For non-games, though, I think there may be some equalizing afoot.
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