Archive for the 'mobile-musings' Category

its going to be a while…

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:The police are telling people to “go to cityplace and get a few drinks”
People inside are still not being told anything is happening. If you step out of your unit you will be escorted out.
No further news.

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meth lab busted?

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:People inside are not being informed of anything but as soon as they come out they are being informed that they can’t go back in.
witnesses say that people reported having “scrathy throats” and that there were a “lot of cops” on the 4th floor. The words “Meth lab” came up a […]

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firemen wearing masks

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Firemen who are coming out of the building.
Witness report a “weird odor”.
AC showed up for our quake tournament.

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prado under lockdown

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Get home from dinner to find 8 fire engines surrounding the condo building.
The word is that the “pool chemicals went ballistic”. Whatever happened, they are not letting anyone in or out.
Will update as the situation progresses.

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mobile phones and driving

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:This guy just drove by, one hand was holding his cell phone to his ear while the other was lighting up his cigarette.
I’ll make that reason number 325 why not to smoke: so ypou can safely text message while driving.

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google mobile update dissapoints

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:I was doing some christmas shopping when I noticed that google rolled out a mobile product update.
Being the software junkie that I am, I immediately started the update. One of the updates that caught my eye was a mobile version of google docs.
Any of my regular readers knopw what a […]

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office party

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Last night we had our office holiday party at Roxys. Pictures are up on flickr.
It was a great time the only downside was the fact that I was still recovering from the previous nights party and due to certain bowel conditions felt it prudent not to overdo it.
I know that […]

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nothing to report

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Its christmas party week.
Monday: bowling league party
Tuesday: condo party
Wednesday: office party
Thursday: clematis party
Friday: mias preschool party.
My social schedule is full.
I have been thinking of starting on a few secret writing projects.
I miss the days when I had the time to sit down and write all day. Chanelling my […]

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i am tinman legend

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:I was pretty happy with both tinman and I am Legend. I’ve been getting into hulu.com these days, and despite all the naysayers its a great way for the networks to reach their non cable subscribers.
The ads are well targeted and short and the quality is better than the streaminmg video […]

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off to watch “i am legend”

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Somehow I decided it would be cool to watch the midnight IMAX show.
Hope its worth me staying up late for.

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CSI is nasty

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:The last few days I’ve found myself watching crime dramas on tv. Tuesday it was NCIS and last night I had the unfortunate experience of watching CSI NY.
The shows are terrible, the mysteries are stupid, dialog is forced, plots are shallow, and the gross body factor is off the charts.
Now […]

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superbad - its the dialog

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:The thing that stood out to me the most about superbad is the lengthy dialogs. It would be interesting to see the difference in dialog length between the different genres of movies and if/how dialog length correlates to ratings. It wasn\’t shakespeare, but what I think made the movie interesting is that […]

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tmobile stole my interweb

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:After I upgraded the firmware on my blackberry 8700 the interweb was gone.
I called tmobile and they said “we’d be happy to fix that for you, mr wormus … Check your device now and see if you have the internet icon in your application menu”.
Sure enough they dropped it right […]

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i has an idea

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:And it is bigger than google (the search engine, not the sushi eating, mobile platform/advertising empire).
The problem with google is that it in its quest to build an organic search engine database it gave too much power to the anonymous website and ignored many of the established content providers. When I […]

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roxys piano bar

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:Spent the evening yesterday at the first annual “margarita ball” at roxys.
It was a nice event which also doubled as the first dueling piano show.
Very entertaining. I wish I had my camera as it would have made great pictures.

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