Move Your Money Now!!!
Chase Manhattan Bank is EVIL. This week, they tried to charge me $297 due to one overdraft I accidentally made to my account, and the most I could convince them to remove in charges was $136 (they have a $70 credit back limit and I caught them in error on $66 of the overdraft charges). They still are demanding I give them $161 in fees for what amounted to a single transaction that caused me account to overdraft $106.48.
Goodbye iPhone. Hello Android.
Google Nexus One
While not the iPhone killer, I think the Nexus One spells the beginning of the end for any type of SmartPhone dominance by Apple. Check out this consumer survey and how dramatically it changed in 3 months in Android's favor.
The real killer feature of Android 2.1 that this RedEye article failed to mention is that voice-to-text can completely replace typing on the phone altogether... and as far as I know, Apple has no plans to implement this feature any time soon. Furthermore, while multi-touch isn't available out of the box, the hardware is multi-touch capable. Because of the high demand, I figure it should will show up in Android 2.2 by the end of summer (knock-on-wood).
Its Supposed to Be Funny
Sitting, sitting, waiting, waiting
Always calling out
Never calling in.
My Sassy Blasphemy
Has Hollywood over reached…?
Hollywood has been remaking Hong Kong movies for years now… And why not? “The Departed,” a Hollywood remake of Hong Kong police drama “Infernal Affairs” netted $290 million worldwide and bagged 4 little golden statues. Sadly, it seems like horror flicks get the Hollywood remake treatment more often with terrible films such as “The Eye” being foolishly lifted from HK cinema. Apparently, they were trying to piggy-back on the success of Japanese horror remakes such as “The Ring” and “The Grudge” – but you have to start with a good movie…
A New Goal
I love sharing my goals and aspirations privately, but rarely in public. This one I think I can. I would like to bicycle across the US after I finish college. Of course, which "after college" could mean several things since I plan on going to grad school - twice - and I also want to do Teach For America in there somewhere... So, lets just say that sometime in there after one major milestone and before the next, I want to do the TransAmerican Trail which stretches from Oregon to Virginia.
My Tax Rebate
Like most people, I'm very excited to be receiving some of my tax money back. I just wish I could stay excited once I started using my brain. Allow me to explain:
G.R.rrrrrrrrr, baby…
Today, I had the pleasure to meet two of my greatest heroes: Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, founders and writers of Giant Robot magazine. I wish I could explain why I love this magazine so much and the impact that Eric & Martin have had on me and the lens through which I view the world... but words fail me in this instance. Perhaps I'll retouch on this another time.
Be
People always told you
“Be yourself!”
“Just be yourself!”
“You gotta be yourself!”
“To thy own self,
Be true.”
So you tried it,
And you found
You found out
Things about yourself
From those people
Certain things
You never knew.
How are you sleeping?
How are you sleeping?
I'm not sleeping so well…
I lie in bed,
In the dark,
Exhausted and yet,
Wide awake.
Together Alone
He walked alone
On his path of life
Trudging along, refusing to abate
Not expecting
To meet a beautiful siren
Who forever would alter his fate
