May 02
MattNerdery
I have owned my new phone for just over 24 hours and where I probably shouldn’t say it’s the best phone ever, I will.
I had been using a Blackberry Storm prior to last night’s purchase of HTC’s Droid Incredible. This was my first experience with the phone:
My wife and I were on our way to see a community theater production in Concord, MA. We were at the Verizon store and were going to finish there and head right to the theater. The salesperson at the store handed me the Incredible after she had tranferred my contacts.
I found the search “fixed” button and typed the name of the theater company. I got the Google search results, touched the Map link and then the Navigation link. Just like that, I had turn-by-turn navigation to the theater. This whole process for me took less time than it took to type this paragraph. I had no documentation and had not used the phone.
It was intuitive and fun and cool.
2 phones ago I had an iPhone. I never really fell in love with it. That was at the beginning of it’s run. I know it’s much better now. The Storm was great for email but lacked the coolness or application support that I know the iPhone has. I wanted something in the middle and I think it has arrived.
It’s a geeky-fun phone that doesn’t feel like it’s meant for geeks. The Android Marketplace has all the apps I need, for free…I feel like I have a phone that will literally do everything I need it to do and I don’t feel dirty because I’m not supporting Apple’s closed “We know better than you” platform (I am writing this on my iPad so I still feel a little dirty).
Love it.
The name is awful. I actually felt embarrassed when I showed people today and they asked what it was called. The phone is the best out there for me. Until it isn’t.
I think I’ll change my name to Matt Awesome.
Apr 26
MattNerdery
To whom it may concern:
99% of the time, if you have to ask me to be your fan, I’m probably not. Thanks to Facebook’s awesome fan mechanism, I can now be annoyed almost constantly by people who think I should become a fan of theirs.
I especially appreciate the following paraphrased Facebook interaction:
“Hey, I think you should become a fan of my sprocket company.”
“No.”
[next day]
“Hey, not sure if you accidentally answered last time but I think you should become a fan of my sprockets company.”
“Ignore.”
[next day]
“I can’t remember if I asked you to be a fan of my sprockets company, so you should, ok?”
[unfriend]
You: leave us alone. We all know you just invite all your “friends” so there is no way you forgot to ask me. If I show up again, that means I said no. No means no. You don’t want me to be your fan anyway. You just want my “friends” to see that I’m a fan so they might become a fan too. Leave us alone.
Facebook: learn. How about an option to ignore invitations from someone who is abusing the spirit of the site.
If I have something I think is important to share, it goes here, or in my status on Facebook, or on Twitter. You can consume it if you want and if not, well that’s your loss.
May 22
MattNerdery
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I know, right?
May 18
MattNerdery
The following is a snippet of an IM conversation with my wife:
Danyael: “how do i stop the mac?”
Danyael: “the rainbow windmill thing is going and going”
May 18
MattNerdery
Ned
“Matt, you need to write another blog entry by August 3rd.”
Matt
“Why, is that the last time I wrote one?”
Ned
“Yes.”
Matt
“Ok.”
IN YOUR FACE NED!
Mar 23
MattBranding, Nerdery
As if the English language wasn’t already confusing, I believe we have reached the end of road as far as words go and is now time to create some new ones. There are new things invented all the time and new technologies used to do all sorts of stuff constantly. It only seems natural to me that there should be some new words to go along with this stuff. Now, people have been making up these types of words for some time. They are called Sniglets and Bert Christensen has a site with tons of words for your educational pleasure.
I think it is time for us to take the next step…and here are the words to do it with.
Your beloved Quench Blauthor,
Matt
Feb 08
MattBranding, Nerdery
The odds that you’d have the same birthday as your mother are about 1 in 365 or around 0.27%. My mother and I have the same birthday. Up until recently, I only knew of 1 other family where a child and parent had the same birthday. Well, guess who else has the same birthday as their mother? If you guessed Danyael, my girlfriend, you’d be correct. She has the same birthday as her mother.
Isn’t that odd?
Jan 25
MattBranding, Nerdery
You know when you’re waiting at a red traffic light? Is it so much to ask for that if you’re in the first slot, that you pause the hair and makeup session and just focus on the task at hand?
Yesterday I was 3rd in line at the light. Light turns green…1 one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand…what is going on??? Why aren’t we moving? 4 one-thousand, 5 one-thousand, 6 one-thousand. I look at the first car and sure enough, the driver is doing her hair in the mirror. No movement. Now I’m getting frustrated with driver of car #2 also. There was a clear breakdown of responsibility here:
Car #1 – obvious. It is your job to watch the road. If you drop the ball, you are slowing the rest of us down.
Car #2 – You need to be watching and it is your job to “remind” car #1 of their responsibilities if they don’t act in the right amount of time.
Car #3 (me in this case) should never have to do anything. Turns out that we would have missed the entire green if I hadn’t “reminded” car #1 and car #2 of their responsibilities. The good news is that I made it through that green light but I would have been very upset had I not.
One more thing for the road…10 out of 10 times, when the driver of car #1 realizes their blunder, they will floor the gas as if they were in a drag race and this display will somehow make up for the irresponsibility. News flash: it doesn’t.
Pave attention.
Jan 08
MattBranding, Nerdery
I once wrote a little something about some of the issues I have with the English language and I was thinking about it again so I decided it was time for me to revisit it in what will probably be a very exciting multi-part saga. Everyone knows learning languages is a difficult thing to do. Every language has its nuances and challenges. I’d write about other languages but I don’t know them really. English is the only language I speak wicked good. Today’s theme…letters.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
I’m not sure we need all of them.
x – why? Box…how about bocks. What’s wrong with that? Oh, I know…
bocs…no need for the k. It has the same sound as c.
q – don’t need it. Our least independent letter…can’t go anywhere without the u and even when it does go out, it sounds like a ‘k‘…or rather a ‘c‘. Quick…change it cwic.
So I propose that we get rid of ‘x‘, ‘k‘, and ‘q‘.
Put that in your zerocs machine and copy it. How cwaint.
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