February 2010
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Rooting for Android
An app called “a Hands Heater” has been sitting in the iPhone App Store top 25 of the paid apps for awhile now. It’s a stupid gimmick app that makes the screen appear like a set of heating coils emmitting heat. Amazingly the app ‘s description takes three paragraphs before it mentions that it doesn’t actually do anything. Kind of a slimy thing for the developer to...
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“All Missionaries in the Chile, Santiago East Mission are safe and accounted for....”
– Chile Santiago East Mission: “If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear.” D&C 38:30
Good luck and stay safe little brother!
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My Review of "The Hurt Locker"
I was obviously not happy when I wrote this and it was also 2:30 AM, so read accordingly. But I can’t see anything I necessarily disagree with so I will leave it as is.
I’m lying here in bed feeling empty, depressed, and angry. This was not an easy movie to watch. But I think everyone should. Some might say “Why would I want to watch a movie that makes me feel that way? I will...
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Aava Mobile's Intel Moorestown prototype hands-on →
This has been sitting in my drafts for a bit, so I better post it…
I remember when these guys came to Intel to talk about this device. One of the engineers on our team was giving a presentation on the Moblin stack, so intern #2 and I decided to go listen in. We snuck into the back of the conference room, but someone saw us and decided we should introduce ourselves to the Aava mobile...
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False Doctrine in Hymns
Here is a question for my LDS readers:
Does anyone else feel like there is false doctrine in the second verse of “Choose the Right” (#239):
“There’s the right and the wrong to every question;”
Every time I sing it I am like, wait, really?
Also, what is otherwise a very beautiful hymn, the second verse of “Lead, Kindly Light” (#97) sometimes rubs...
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When I have to stop working on a programming project and read a research paper comparing maintaining replicated databases to spreading disease, I wonder why I decided to go back to school. :/
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Cheating Husbands
Mamajorca was a small, tight knit city, in fact small enough to hear a single gunshot from the opposite end of town. Every married woman in the city was a perfect reasoner, having passed an extremely rigorous set of pre-marital academic tests. However, some of the men were not as smart, and they began cheating on their wives. Of course in such a small city, gossip about the cheating husbands...
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iPhone on Verizon
Ok, I am just going to come out and say it: there will be no iPhone (or iPad) on the Verizon network anytime in the near future (say, less than five years).
I really gain nothing from making this statement: if I am right, no one will remember, if I am wrong, everyone can come back and mock me. Yet I still want to write this post in order to perhaps educate some of my readers who don’t...