The iPhone 4S: Why I Pre-Ordered One

Posted on October 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A while back I wrote about the iPhone 5 and asked the question, “Why don’t I have one?” Well I still don’t have one but I did pre-order the next best thing. the iPhone 4S. No, it isn’t the iPhone 5, which apparently doesn’t exist yet. It’s something quite different. It’s a much-advanced version of it’s predecessor with a great horsepower boost in the form of the A5 processor, and a camera with significantly better specs than those of the iPhone 4.  That isn’t all of the new features, but it represents the reason why I made the purchase.

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Top 10 Reasons Ghosts Don’t Exist

Posted on October 10, 2011 by | 128 comments

Like violent videogames, pornography, or gambling, Halloween seems like it might satisfy an innate human need to experience the entirety of the emotional spectrum. Everyone wants to push it to the limit on Halloween, all while still knowing that they’re safe. Perhaps that’s why people “believe” in ghosts. They know deep down inside that they can’t be possible, but they want that feeling of awe and wonderment that’s been missing since someone first told them that Santa or the Tooth Fairy existed. Or that one day they could be president.

So with that bit of depressing cynicism, I decided to write a list of reasons why I believe that ghosts cannot, do not, and will never exist.

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The iPhone 5: Why Don’t I Have One?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Do you live under a rock? Are you Amish? Is it 1998 where you’re reading this? Those would be reasons why you don’t know about what’s coming. The iPhone 5 is coming. That’s what. There’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. The line of iOS products has taken over the consumer electronics industry. They’ve set the bar for customer satisfaction and brand recognition. They’re destroying all comers in mind-share and in functionality. And they’re making hordes of Android fans furious, every time their name is brought up. Specifically because people like me keep talking about them as though they’re a way of life and not just a piece of Chinese plastic. I understand their pain.

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Small update to the Appreciation Page. Just a brief mention about how Halloween is better than food and about how King Richard’s Faire might be my real dad. When I was there, I saw God. God might be a giant purple monster that wanders the woods in search of kids who don’t have wet pants yet. If you’ve been there, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t…wait who am I kidding. Nobody is reading this.

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Two For One Reviews: Taken and The Happening

Posted on September 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Two movies released in 2008 with plots heavily focused on revenge are the subject of this review. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening and the Morel/Besson collaboration Taken. One was described as “racist” by the UK’s Daily Telegraph, and the other as a “woeful clunker” by The Wall Street Journal. Ouch on both counts. “How could a movie about a suicide-inducing airborne toxin be racist?” you might ask. Read on.

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