Tending bar was easy money. Hang on for a sec…I’ll get to it, via a roundabout, Android laden path. As a new Droid 2 owner, I’m all about my apps. You know what? There are a lot of awful apps floating around the market place and or webs. There are some incredibly useful apps, both free and for purchase. I have purchased but one Android app so far…and I’m not embarrassed in the least to say that it is the paid version of Robo Defence. It both kicks ass at home, and at the job. In fact, I can barely make it through a meeting, that is, if I drop the ball and leave GPS rolling and nuke my battery, rendering my phone useless for a half-hour-turned-into-seventy-horrible-minutes-of-repeating-the-same-crap-from-the-last-twelve-emails. I mean meetings. I mean, I wish I could use my phone at work. But, I digress. I like apps. Wouldn’t it be great, if there was some sort of app out there, that would pay you. Sit down, y’all…there is. Mobile plus marketing equals mobile marketing. Getting paid to play, in a nutshell. This has been an incredibly long-winded intro to an easily summed-up moral of the story. I really think that WeReward has hit the nail on the head, and created the easiest means of making money I have ever encountered. Granted, I have tended a lot of bar, which is both easy and simultaneously a giant pain in the ass. How about getting paid to check into an advertiser’s place of business? Sounds okay…right? Hear an ad, respond to add, do nothing more, get some loot. Not too shabby. I caught a video on a Fox affiliate about these guys and an iPhone app. Basically, they were pulling fifty bucks a month for taking pictures from some places that popped up on their phones. They have the same stuff for we Android users, and will have you RIM suckers covered in no time. Hit that link above for some more info…it is pretty slick.

Wheat Thins are boring, by design. What is a guy to do, when at work with a bunch of boring-ass W Thins? Easy. Arrange the hell out of the stupid little things and hot snauce them up. Hot snauce the crap out of them. Here, I went for a crude lobster formation. If you get a little crazy with said hot snauce, don’t worry. I spent the rest of my afternoon with a small red snauce stain on my yellow notepad. Either my co-workers failed to notice, or thought I was crazy and avoided a rambling culinary pep talk. +1 Spicy

One week into my tenure as a happy Droid user, I have some insight into what an Android user must toss on his or her unit. This is a running list, of course, but solid enough for a post. Post and a pic… I’ll keep it simple at this point. Top five apps I have encountered, as far as usefulness and coolness are concerned.

1. Advanced Task Killer. No questions asked…get this app first and foremost. The battery life on these suckers is awful at best. Multitasking is great, but murder on batteries. Nuke your background crap, and nuke it often. Nuke it from orbit, if in orbit.
2. Google Sky Map. So awesome it hurts. Bonus: your non-Android-having buddies will bow to your phone’s awesomeness.
3. Google Translate. Como se dice ‘awesome’ en Espanol? Un momento…Impresionante. Get this app, amigos.
4. Robo Defence. Awesome game; good graphics. Perfect for meetings; free version for those non-committal types.
5. Google Goggles. Take pictures of junk, see search results. This is another deal-breaker when it comes to the new tech that you can pull out on these phones. Maybe I’ll post a few result sets of this guy in action…sort of like looking into the future with this guy. As the forewarning stated, this is far from a static list…merely a snapshot of the stuff I am currently digging with a spoon. I’ll try to keep some updates on the site, when my knowledge and tastes mature. FWIW, get one of these bad boys. You will most surely not regret it in the least. To the max.

Since I’m really dragging my feet in regards to posting anything of substance, take a quick look at my new Aoyue soldering station. It works like a champ…pretty pumped that I heeded Lady Ada’s advice on this one. I still need to post my Motor Shield assembly pics. I also really need to post some stuff about the Droid 2…which is constantly blowing my mind. Stick around…it’ll happen.

What is better than bacon? No, not nothing. Bonus bacon. Circle gets a square.

Sorry for the lack of updates. On second thought, no I’m not. I’ve been doing all sorts of awesome crap. My Droid 2 is extremely awesome crap. I really can’t say enough about the Android OS. Even though I had my heart set on the HTC Incredible, I’m impressed with Motorola’s work on the Droid 2. Job well done. More to come on this, for sure. Droid, Droid, Droid. Droid. I also have taken on my awesome soldering crap project regarding the Arduino Motor Shield ‘some assembly required’ fiasco. As so long as you look at it from afar, it will appear as though I am a skilled solder-ing machine: …which I clearly am not. I snapped some pics of the assembly process on my Droid 2. I’ll get them up soon. Stay tuned, as always.

You will, without a doubt, be hearing about this. A lot.

Sweep is for breakfast around here…implement a knob or be gone. Same principle as the Arduino sweep example from yesterday, but with a potentiometer doing the actual lifting. Lifting? Shifting…heavy shifting. I added a little potentiometer (little blue guy behind the RainBird sprinkler adjustment tool) to control the servo this go-around: Another success. Dang. Looks like I’m going to have to whip out the soldering iron after all. Not looking forward to this effort; I have a bad feeling that I’m going to fail miserably with the project. Maybe I’ll knock it out of the park. Life is a garden, dig it.

lolcat by joe. enjoy.

My source for the Arduino Motor Shield would not approve of my soldering iron. Not by any means… I still have the ‘made in china’ tag on this piece of shit. Poorly played. In case any of my reader-base has taken an interest in microcontrollers, robotics, or awesome crap in general, Lady Ada has you covered. I recieved my motor shield in no time what-so-ever, and Limor’s prices smoke those of Amazon to boot. Don’t get me started about her tutorials…pretty bad ass. I need to toss the pictured iron in the trash and get a real iron before I get after my motor shield project…I can say that the servos she shipped me are tits.