July 10, 2006: My hombre Voy provides some landscaper lunch comic relief by crawling into a little van thing at the mall. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ February 2, 2010: My nephew Jake provides some comic relief to his mother by hamming it up in a little van thing at the mall. I hope, for Jake’s sake, that those food-court ass-faces clean those things. Lord knows what sort of grime was on Voy’s clam-diggers in ‘o6.

How can the back crawl?

I think Richard Branson is awesome. He basically does whatever he wants. Like inventing seaplanes. FTA: *Billionaire Sir Richard Branson may already own an airline, a record label, a mobile phone company, several luxury restaurants and a Caribbean island. But today the entrepreneur unveiled his latest toy - an underwater plane. The £415,000 prototype submersible is called the Necker Nymph and can dive to depths of up to 130ft. Sir Richard hopes to one day explore depths of 35,000ft - which is far more than the height of Mount Everest.*My hero.

Well, it turns out Amazon determined that I’m a bad motherfucker. Typically Amazon tells me about HDMI cables, puzzle books, holsters, shell-toes, netbooks, etc. Now, apparently, they think I should check out some dashikis. And I might…

I’ve let it be known that I am a Wii dude. A Wii-tard, if you will. With my recent PS3 purchase, I have, for the first time, a real ’live’ gaming unit. This has set me on a search, so to speak, for easy access to this world. I stumbled across these guys, offering xbox live 1 month code promotions on the cheap. Pretty slick site. In addition to the 1 month xbox live code mentioned above, they offer Wii card points, Playstation Network credits, and any sort of console access you could possibly want. I understand that not all gamers are going to be looking for xbox live 1 month offers, but the good folks at pcgamesupply have you covered with instant access to even the most non-console offerings…you guessed it, WoW and CoD Modern Warefare 2. Hit one of those links to check them out…I know you have the time.

It almost seems like a crime to own the most hackintosh-able netbook w/o hackintoshing the sumbitch. Ideal chipset…ideal ease of solid state HD and RAM upgrade. The only downside is my Linux fanboi-izm…and affinity to The Gimp. Ubuntu FTW. I’m uber-serios-ly considering making the bump. I really hate iTunes and anything else with a small i preceding a word, but think that iPhone/iTouch app dev might be worth the hassle. More to come…I have some contemplation to contemplate.

The iPad doesn’t multi-task The iPad is less powerful than my Mini 9 The iPad is twice as expensive as my Mini 9 The iPad still requires tethering sans WiFi The iPad is Flash-free The iPad… …ups the iTunes bullshit ante with some asinine iBooks bullshit. Dealbreaker. Honestly, this thing is basically an entry level netbook with a touch-screen and a whole grip of proprietary junk. No HDMI out, so you cannot use your glorified e-book reader as a portable media center. No thanks. Maybe once this thing is jail-broken it will be worth a look, but as the iPad sits in Gen I, this thing is going the way of the Macbook Air…straight to obscurity. The Apple fanboiz should be all over this stupid thing. I’ll stick to the smartphone / netbook for the time being.

The aforementioned ’next big thang’ from Apple is called the iPad. Really. Jobs is still blathering about it at the press release, but the peremptory word is that the thing is a hybrid book reader slash iPod on ‘roids. I may want one. Full details will follow when the details fully emerge.

I’m not open source enough to be close minded about Apple products. They make some amazing shit. I’d drop my BlackBerry in a shake if the iPhone was out on Verizon. In a shake. The nets have been afire with rumors of the next big thing from Jobs & Co. Well, it is a tablet PC, and it is reportedly awesome. Jason Calacanis (Engadget founder) has had one for two weeks to beta test, and he called it the " most amazing device ever." Shit. One more thing to get. Official word is slated for 1 PM… I’ll post more at that point.

Ubuntu’s maker, Canonical, has announced that Lucid Lynx will drop with Yahoo Search as the default for Firefox. Since Yahoo is powered by Bing, M$ is effectively in bed with a fricking Linux distro… World colliding Granted, it takes about 5 seconds to configure Firefox to use Google as it does in Koala, but it is a step in the right direction for Canonical… Contracts with Dell and now M$ via Yahoo will help gain market share. Maybe 2011 will be the year of the Linux desktop… Not very likely, but less M$ is a victory in my book. Addition by subtraction.