A Little Update, More On The Way August 31, 2007
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Ah, hey everyone, again I apologize for the lack of updates, been a little overwhelmed the past few days. School started Thursday, and that hasn’t exactly been a great experience. Awkward encounters with the ex-girlfriend, even more awkward teachers, and tough classes make for an interesting couple of days. But I will be back up soon with a review and look at the iPhone bluetooth headset from good ‘ol Apple and more. Later.
We Superbad August 24, 2007
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Hey everyone, been a little while since my last update, so here’s what’s been going. I’m home now, back in Connecticut. I had a great time in the Pacific Northwest and Las Vegas and I miss it already (especially considering that school starts a week from yesterday). So what do I do? Well, I spend all my time with friends, so that’s why I have not been able to update. Past couple of days have been lacking in sleep but chock full of insanity. Yesterday was really spent just hanging around my neighborhood catching up with people, and today, today was the day I finally got to see Superbad.
If you are a fan of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, or anything that is guaranteed to get you to laugh, you need to see Superbad. The movie was created by Seth Rogan (Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin) and it is brilliant. There’s plenty of summaries of the movie out there, and the previews have been airing for a while now, so I won’t bore you with that. The movie has been out since August 17, and I was unable to see it on vacation, so I was thrilled to get the chance when I got home. It’s a great movie though, it’s nasty, it’s outrageous, it’s teenagers being teenagers. And, it really works. See it!
Well, I’m going to keep it brief, I’ve got a lot to do, including more packing. Once again I am leaving, this time for Maryland. I’m shooting down there tomorrow to see an Orioles game with some friends, really looking forward to that. I’ve been to the park at Camden Yards on a school trip, but have never seen a game. We’ll see what happens with that. Sunday I will be helping my friends brothers move into the University of Maryland, so I probably won’t be around at all this weekend. But, I will definitely update my Twitter page with the latest.
And as to my previous article about my iPhone update issue, oh what fun that was. I had to re-input all of my contacts because I never actually save my contacts in Outlook or anything, I’m not a fan, and I do not sync my iPhone with my Macbook. It was a painstaking process, but what can you do? I hope no one else had the same issues I did with the new update, but let me know if you did.
Later!
What A Terrible Thing To Come Home To, A Failed iPhone Restore August 22, 2007
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I’m home! And completely messed up from time zone hopping, but oh well. So, after landing in Newark this morning I checked out some news on my iPhone and saw that the new update is available. When I got home and got settled I plugged my iphone in to charge. Now I use iFuntastic to hack my iPhone, solely for the ringtones, and was not at all surprised when I was told I would need to restore my iPhone (that’s what happened to me during the last update). So I prepared and saved all my files and such. I restore it, and it takes me to the screen asking if I would like to start a new iPhone account or sync it with my original one. I of course said sink with my last update (which on my home PC was 8/18). Well, itunes then crashed, and when I started it up again my iPhone started syncing. I panicked and stopped the sink, and once again restored the iPhone. This time, when I got to the option of selecting a date, it was set to the sync that itunes JUST performed. So now, my iPhone is back to square one, no contacts, bookmarks, anything. I’m really dissapointed, but what can you do? I tried digging around for an old sync, but had no luck. Within a few hours I had my contacts and all back on as well as my music and such, but still, really dissapointing. Anyone else having similar problems? A friend of mine had to restore his (unhacked) iPhone for the last update. Hm.
Links, Flying Spurs, Mello, A Good Last Day In Vegas August 21, 2007
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Ah, it’s my last day here in Vegas and I’m gonna miss it. I’m ready to head home though, but I certainly made use of my last day. To begin I went out and played 18 holes at Steven Wynn’s famous golfcourse here in Vegas. This was my second time playing at the $500 per round course (we had our round comp’d) and it really is quite an experience. If you ever get the chance to play at the course, take it, it’s really quite amazing. It literally is an amazing first class golf course smack dab in the middle of the Vegas strip. It’s unlike anything you will probably ever see. You walk in, check in, then the incredibly kind staff takes you to the locker room, lets you rent clubs, and basically aids you with whatever you may need. Before heading out they cleaned my golf shoes, re-laced them, and got us water and drinks. You really do get the service that you pay for at the course. Because of the high price, its easy to get tee times and there usually are very few people playing at one time. And, the best part is you get a caddy to ride on the back of your golf cart and help you out. Our caddy today was a really nice guy, name’s Alexio (sorry if I spelt that wrong!). He was a great help, and had good excuses for whenever I messed up a shot (and that was often). My personal favorite would have to be, “Oh you just had a terrible lie, that’s all” when of course I had a perfect lie. So even though I didn’t play well, I shot a 109 in 18, it was a good time. And, Alexio was good for conversation, because he too is a Mac and iPhone fan. So that lightened the mood when I was basically hitting the ball every direction but straight. Sure, just talk about blogging after you slice a shot, perfect cure. So yeah, that was a pretty good start to the day. We finished 18 in about four hours, finishing up around 2PM, not bad. Especially considering that Alexio was telling us stories of groups that took seven and a half hours to play 15 holes of golf. Can you imagine? Why even bother playing?! I don’t get it, but whatever. Good start. (more…)
