No Business Naming Things

I’ve seen a lot of this lately but the following takes it to a whole new level.  C’mon guys, try a little harder

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… but a bad time for ME to own a PS3.  October (leading into early November) is shaping up to be a seriously awesome month to be a gamer.  Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, and Bioshock for PS3 all drop within that month - my top three desired games for the year.  Under ideal circumstances I’d find a way to break both of my legs or catch the plague so that I could sequester myself away from the world and gorge on them.  However, much of October will be spent on a train touring Canada for our honeymoon.  I wouldn’t trade this for the world but it does mean I’m going to have to get creative with my time management when I return.  I haven’t put a lot of millage into any of our game machines recently and I’m eager to give them the beats.  The above three games combined with Sam and Max for the Wii (which hits a month previous) should keep me entertained well into 2009.

Oh my god.  I HAVE to have this chair at some point in my life.

As much sympathy as I have for the cause PETA represents I find myself wanting to go home tonight and eat a whole chicken with my bare hands out of spite for the new ad they intend on running that capitalizes on the horrible incident that happened on the Greyhound bus in Manitoba awhile back.

What kind of maladjusted and cruel bastard does something like that?  Does PETA WANT us to hate them?  Because honestly, I’ve lost a lot of respect for them as of late and this pretty much obliterates the rest.  Their message is buried under their horrible politics and as much as I want to see animal cruelty end bullshit like this makes me want to see cruelty TOWARDS PETA increase.

Dear US Citizen,

Why does your government not want any business travelers into your lovely country?  Your rules and regulations have become unpalatable - it’s no longer safe for us to pass through your borders.  Our electronic devices often contain large, important chunks of our life.  Not only our business life, but our personal life as well - asking us to surrender them for no other reason than to satisfy your insatiable need for security theater is unreasonable.

Not Much Love Now, Kim

And of course…

Dear Software Conference Organizers,

Is Canada looking better yet?  Mmm?

Love, Kim

I’m still enjoying this thing just as much as I was, but there is a more noticible flaw I should mention. Google tells me this is not widespread but it’s not unique either. The problem is that when the iPod is paused (or no longer playing) it will sometimes unpauae itself. Pressure on the headphone plug will often make it happen, but that isn’t the exclusive cause. Sometimes there’s no reason at all (that I can see.). It seems to have become less frequent over the last few days but is not better entirely. I may have to try the stock iPhone headphones and see if that helps - it could be some kind of short from my headphones.

Oh yah… The battery life. Boy does that ever suck. With 15 minute mail updates I might get 2 days out of it.

This is being written from the new Wordpress iPhone app. It was hard to get going - there were security issues with xmlrpc.php that resulted in XML parse errors and crashes but after fixing those it appears to be okay.

Destructoid: off the reading list.

Not only is Fat Princess pretty damned offensive, so is the gasbag who wrote the above. Ugh. Why must the majority of gaming sites be so bloody juvenile?

I caved and got a 16g iPhone today. Perhaps under other circumstances I would have waited but I desperately needed some retail therapy to smooth out what’s happened recently. This is probably adequate to brand me a shallow asshole for life, but I can own that. We all deal in our own ways.

So, verdict after 5 hours of ownership: it’s good. It’s everything I expected it to be and there was only two things that pissed me off. The first, which lays at the feet of Apple, is the (relatively) minor pain of putting on custom ring tones. There is no way in hell that I’m going to pay again for a 30 second clip of music I already own. While Apple doesn’t make it EASY for you to create your own, a liberal application of Garage Band and this tutorial does the trick.

The second is an application problem with FileMagnet. I really wanted a decent PDF reader for this thing and every PDF I’ve thrown at FileMagnet has either frozen it or simply not worked. The thing only cost me $4.99, so I can’t complain TOO much, but I will complain more if I can’t get it working in time.

We went to see The Dark Knight last evening in an effort to keep distracted.  I was expecting a solid film but even I was impressed with it - there is finally a live action Batman film to displace Mask of the Phantasm as the best Batman film.  Anything worth saying has been said elsewhere but I really have to acknowledge Heath Ledger - he is the definitive Joker.  His performance puts to shame every Joker performance before it and I can’t fathom it ever being bettered in the future.  Just wow.