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The Future Mr. Scotch & myself have been trying to find a good wedding song for our first dance as husband and wife. Well, that's a simplification. He said he has no opinion, but vetoed my choice, which was Little Red Corvette by Prince. Now, I haven't been to many weddings, but the ones I have attended have featured a LAME first dance song. I want something that's funky, soulful, and romantic. Any and all suggestions will be considered. We have 35 days left and I'm getting really antsy to pick one. Keep in mind, the first dance will take place at an outdoor luau here:

 

Alternately, if you agree with me that Little Red Corvette is an AWESOME first song, please post that sentiment here and perhaps my man friend can be convinced.

I was having a pretty miserable day today. A vicious combination of stress, frustration, and loneliness typically will do the trick. Thank the gods that I have good friends, like ee.en, who even after he was drenched with my personal sorrows, went out of his way to send me this song. Interpret it how you like, but listening to A Postcard to Nina was exactly what I needed.

Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro! While waiting in line I saw fellow Vox member Shin.

Photos taken with the Nokia N82.

So, as many of you probably know, I bought an iPod Classic back in December as a Christmas present. Having 80 GB of storage was really sweet. I could throw anything I wanted on to it and still have gobs of storage space left over. But in comparison to the iTouch, it really didn’t stand up. The iTouch had a superior screen, built in WiFi and on-the-fly music downloads, not to mention a forthcoming SDK for really cool applications. So although I loved my classic, I yearned for a Touch. So, for my graduation present/birthday present, I bought myself an 8 GB iTouch. It didn’t have the gobs of storage space that my Classic had, but it had several advantages. First, the 3.5” Widescreen is amazing. Compared to the 2.5” on my classic, the Touch wins hands down. Video’s looks amazing, and beat out the classic  On a related point, the Touch’s screen is made of optical quality glass, which is much tougher and scratch resistant then the plastic on the Classic. The WiFi is amazing. I’ve been wanting to get away from my main desktop for a long time and the iTouch provided an excellent way to do just that. With the built in Wi-Fi and the January Software upgrade, iTouch offers Full HTML/CSS web browsing, a Mail client with support for IMAP/POP3 as well as Google Maps.  Safari renders webpages very well, albeit without Flash support and the accelerometer built into the iTouch is excellent for both Portrait and Landscape viewing modes.  The Mail Client is decent, allowing you to receive and forward messages as well as delete messages right off the server and file messages into folders. There is support for Yahoo, Gmail, AOL Mail and any other POP3, IMAP or Exchange server based system. The Interface on the touch is easy to use and innovative. Clicking the “Home” button twice brings up a set of music controls that allow you to change the volume or skip to the next song anywhere in the Touch, even if the hold switch is on. The iTunes WiFi Music store is quite good. Downloads are fast, and the interface is simple enough. A minor pain is you musc synce your iTunes account information before you can use the store, you can’t sign in from the Touch.

So what are the pitfalls? There are a few, to say the least. First is the virtual keyboard. After using it for a few days, it’s easy enough to type on, enought to pound emails. However, for some stupid reason, the Widecreen mode is only support in Safari, leaving you to use it in Portrait Mode for most applications, like Email, Notes and others. Secondly, software, in area’s seem a little buggy. Some applications (like Safari) will crash for no reason, and go to the Home screen, even when in the middle of reading something. Sometimes, going to a particular section of the iTouch will cause to freeze momentarily, before proceeding. I’ve only experienced this on a few occasions however.  DVD chaptering seams a tad buggy. I tried to movies and, when I selected scene, it would just restart the current chapter. After 2 or 3 times, it would work, but that should work right from the get go. Flash support is needed, especially for people who watch non Youtube sites, like Veoh, SurftheChannel and others. As well, some sites don’t work well or at all, if they are entirely based on Flash. Some websites (like Revision3) have created they’re own iPhone based site and transcoded video’s into H.264 for viewing, but this really isn’t pratical and Apple should just bite the bullet and allow Flash on the iPhone. My Final gripe in syncing. Apple, for some arcane reason, only let’s you import calendars, contacts and bookmarks from Microsoft programs like Outlook and IE. No .csv file, no VCARD file, not HTML file. So I had to export my Firefox bookmarks to IE and then sync them to my iTouch. And my contacts? I had to manually input them after they wouldn’t import correctly into Outlook from Gmail. It’s stupid, it really is.

Despite it’s pitfalls, the Touch is an excellent device. I’ve been looking at a device like this for a few months now and I’ve very satisfied. While I wouldn’t say that the iTouch is better then something like an N810 or comparative smartphone, for someone looking for an all-in-one solution for your on the good needs, I would highly recommend the iTouch.

Left by our own intrepid  Charlie 5-0.  Drunk voice mails are teh awesome.

as Mark Twain said: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Bring a coat or something long-sleeve and warm to keep you warm. I brought one fleece and wore it all week when I was outside.

If you forget that something warm, head to Chinatown for something inexpensive emblazoned with "San Francisco". Chinatown is an interesting place. A definite must see to just walk up and down the street to see the people and the shops and hear the sounds.

Although I'm sure there's nothing wrong with a Cable Car ride, I never took one while here. I tried to on Sunday to get to Fisherman's Wharf but it wasn't running. So I walked to the Wharf. It wasn't a bad walk but I had to walk my share of hills. The Wharf was a nice place. But it was VERY touristy. It was packed.

From the Wharf I took a bay cruise, out around the Golden Gate Bridge and out past Alcatraz Island Rock. It was a very nice trip. It was windy and cold, but worth it to see the bridge and The Rock up close.
It's an amazing city. Full of people, and shops, and restaurants, and things to do, and things to see. And the hills you see on TV, they're real. I walked them almost every day. People out here tend to be in shape.

My training was downtown. One thing I noticed, a few days after I noticed all of the people walking around, and all the restaurants, and the Starbucks on every-other corner, was the walk signals at the intersections.

They actually have jaywalk signals. There's a point in time when all the traffic stops and you are allowed, by signal, to walk diagonal across the street. It was great, I took advantage of it a couple of times.

O MY DEAR LORD!!!

I am so annoyed right about now! WHY??? Well i get into work this morning and i recieve and email from a manager over in another state with this attatched.

"Hi All, As a bonus, You are intitalled to TWO FREE tickets to tonights Game of West Coast Vs Hawthorn."

Nice gesture Right? WRONG! The game is over in another state.My Reply was something along the lines of:

"O that is just torturous, Can you Fly me to the MCG and Back to Perth again, Giving me tickets to see the eagles excited me more than xmas or my birthday"

I so wish the game was being played here. *CRIEZ*

 

 

The Flying Penis attack originated from virtual online world Second Life.

But the flying penis attack has managed to escape the Matrix into the "real world" watch the video for proof.