From: The Bedroom NSFW!

From: Gizmodo ~ When People Discuss Android Fragmentation, This Is What They Mean
From: Gizmodo ~ Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
From: Zdnet ~ Android malware families nearly quadruple from 2011 to 2012

Please keep in mind when I talk about Android products on this website… I don’t depend on them.

It’s like my Blackberry Storm. Work bought that shit for me. I hate it, most of the time I am using my stupid personal Vonage account running on my OSX system to call people on so who cares I do not depend on a Blackberry to function even slightly because it does not. Now I even have my Verizon MiFi 4G LTE box thingy to fall back on if the cable company coughs up a hairball on my internet connection. I can run pretty much any gadget in my whole house off this crazy thing if I wanted to. Android is a toy to play with, a silly hobby kit of potential stuff that may never work. An interesting gadget with lots and lots of issues that represents many companies and stupid people making huge mistakes and frankly Android is the crappy trojan laden virus wrecked Microsoft of phones. In fact you might want to have several anti-virus and anti-trojan apps running at all times since no single one of them really works all that well against the ever increasing onslaught.

Cheap, readily available, and not something I would ever buy to use exclusively like when I do my online banking or go to pay for something online I always reach for an Apple Product because they are secure and they work… ALWAYS! I might play some awesome games on my Windows super mega-machine but I do the real stuff that matters to me on OSX. Windows has become just another toy like an XBox or an Android phone.

I try to be fair since people these days need to save a buck when they can and reading an eBook is just that but I will not lie to you and tell you saving a buck depending on the inept security or kinda sorta functionality of this second rate Android crap to do “real” day to day shit is a great idea. Most gadget reviewing folks I see evangelizing this Android stuff do not use it exclusively. They usually have an OSX MacBook Pro or an iPhone they pull out in a pinch if you just keep watching their broadcasts. They may love the new hardware choices but they still do not depend on the software.

From: GamesBeat ~ World exclusive Diablo III review!!!!

OK, OK, Have I got one for you.

Picture this… Thousands of hardcore gamers all sitting around last night waiting patiently for this top shelf expensive RPG game to unlock. So they wait and wait while some have parties and others talk to their friends online. The midnight hour strikes and thousands of hardcore gamers login to Battle.net in anticipation of playing the rock-em sock-em new Diablo III…

and what do they get? Error 37

Instant gaming failure history was made then and there. After 10 years to prepare and many many hours of repetition Error 37 has become the symbol of Blizzard and everything they shall touch forever more. The mighty has fallen on it’s ass. So yeah, I expect this thing is going to turn out to be yet another Kingdoms Of Alamart exercise of the most bland of generic ass sandboxes to ever to hit the fantasy RPG AAA circuit. I played the original and we are not talking a crazy unique exciting single player storyline there folks. I always thought Bard’s Tale deserved the money to give us a revamped reworked quirky title candle stick and all but no one listens to me.

After that total wipeout last night I Teddypig must play this essence of failure that is Diablo III.

Come my minions, let us bathe in the tears of the fallen.

Samsung Galaxy Note (AT&T)

I made some jokes about the Samsung Galaxy Note when it first showed up. I think I called it an overpriced Palm TX or something like that. I mean it has so many things against it… AT&T, the S-Pen stylus that does not work with it’s own touch sensitive buttons, the battery life of a Mayfly. BUT…

Fandroids are buying it for it’s 5.3-inch 800 x 1280 pixel LCD display which you have to admit is more than enough room to read eBooks on. Sort of a cheapo iPad2 for the masses you might say.

Now the word on the street is the price has dropped on the Galaxy Note to $199 which puts it in line with the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet. It’s a ten times better deal than those locked down bottom barrel book seller fad gadgets that is for sure. That news even beats out the new Samsung Galaxy S III with it’s 4.8-inches of Super AMOLED screen. I personally have always responded to AMOLED screens badly. They always seem to me to be pre-programmed for the most overblown attention whoring color display just like some cheap no-name television. I like accuracy and sharpness not bleary rainbow colors.

Saying all that I still would go with the HTC One X (AT&T) or the HTC EVO 4G LTE (Sprint) which is HTC’s $199 answer to the big Samsung Android phones. With their awesome 4.7-inch Super LCD2 screens. Someone spent the bucks to have the best mobile smart phone display in the whole industry next to Apple that is for sure. A really great screen to read eBooks on and the HTC EVO 4G LTE even has a separate physical camera button for it’s 8-megapixel lens.

Realspace Alluna Collection L-Shape Desk

I bought two of these desks for Jason to use at work and another one for him to use here at the house. Very clean lines with the glass which has this milky greenish sorta frost and hides finger prints pretty well. The desk still fits in with most traditional furniture styles with it’s curved dark metal finish on the legs while being basically cheap furniture. Sits in a corner perfectly and it’s pretty dang stable despite how fragile it looks in all the photos.

I love this craptastic picture so I had to grab it off Craig’s List or where ever it was I found it. It shows you the desk setup which you have to put it together yourself just like IKEA and pretty much how it looks in a room but also the big issue when you are done sticking all your crap on it is you have to hide the dang cords. Jason is using laptops these days so not a huge problem but it is a draw back to consider. Hey, at this price at least it’s not press board, fake wood grain laminate, and poorly glued together seams.

You should always spend more money on a good office chair and a nice 15 inch MacBook Pro anyway just not the slip and slide carpet protector as shown those things are just not right. It’s like putting plastic covers on your couch.

Office Depot has taken the price of this desk down to like $99 which is not bad for a decent metal and heavy glass contraption that sits in the corner.

Serial Mom (1994)

Officer, I’m sorry, but we don’t allow gum in this house.

Kathleen Turner is the best psycho mother ever. A must watch Mother’s Day movie if there ever was one.

From: WriterBear’s ManCave NSFW!

Adobe ~ Creative Cloud

That’s $30.00 a month for access (If you have a earlier Suite version.) to the Master Suite of all Adobe Products for all available OS.

That’s $360 a year with all the upgrades and patches and backups and storage done for you. ALL OF IT!

Jason is downloading his Cloud as we speak. Now he can say nasty things about Adobe with all his Cloud buddies.

Become a “cool kid” join the Cloud. It’s much more constructive than Twitter.

Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours (1977)
Netflix ~ Classic Albums: Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

I have this list of albums I call Teflon Coated. They are extremely rare albums that show a singer or band at a specific set point in time exceeding all expectations and making what most folks consider the perfect album. No matter what you think about the particular group or about the group of songs on the album except they all got played over and over again and no matter how over played that music is you still have to look at the whole album and what it came to mean with… well, with respect.

The Beatles ~ Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Steely Dan ~ Aja (1977)
Michael Jackson ~ Thriller (1982)

In fact you could argue The Beatles had more than one but I always go with having to limit the choice to the most famous album to make the selection even more difficult. No matter what you say, no matter what criticism you throw at these albums, they will always be seen as perfect. Teflon Coated! Fleetwood Mac had that in Rumours and they will always have that one perfect album and like it or not even The Beach Boys (A classic singles band) never got it together enough to pull off that trick. I cannot even begin to come up with a perfect Rolling Stones album off the top of my head. They seemed always so messy with their albums so you have a stunning classic rock song next to complete filler. I have to admit I enjoy listening to Tango In The Night more these days because I like me some flaws.

From: Boneau/Bryan-Brown ~ BC/EFA’s BROADWAY BARES XXII to Celebrate “Happy Endings”