Since everyone on Twitter is deciding to be a real dick about it, I’m going to post something here.

About the iPhone thing: I’m not saying not to get it, and I’m not saying to wait forever. I fail to see how saying “You don’t have to get it Day One” means “Get it Day One + 80 years”. I didn’t realize that time was a discrete variable like that, where the only times that exist are now and each new moment is on an interval of a decade.

The fact of the matter is this: Niamu (and others) have been throwing tweets around about the stresses/difficulty of getting an iPhone on launch day. Well, I wonder, why get it on Day One? Can’t you go out in a month and get the exact same product? No one is going to release any sort of iPhone spoilers that ruin your experience, and none of these people are without a cell phone if they don’t get the new iPhone, so, what’s the rush? People are stressing and struggling to get this product for no reason. So, I say, why not wait a bit? It wont kill you.

All of a sudden, everyone jumps down my throat because, apparently, I’m saying something unheard of. Wait for something? Exercise some patience? Fuck you Jordan! That’s a retarded idea, if ever there was one.

I mean, Danger waits until the end of console life cycles (or used to?) to get video game systems. He got the XBox when it was on the way out. He got it for cheap. And - to my knowledge - has never given a second thought to his decision. Why not apply similar logic to the iPhone? If you get it on Day One (which is hectic) versus a month from Day One (which is less hectic), does your experience with the phone change? Do you get some sort of bragging rights for being one of the first of several thousand to have one? The iPhone 3GS is virtually the same as the 3G, it just has a few new features and runs a little faster. If you’re hoping to show it off to the layman, he probably wont notice any change. If you’re hoping to show it off to your geeky friends, they’ll probably have one too. I just don’t get it.

But I’m sorry if I implied that exercising some patience was even a remote possibility. Dear God, what was I thinking?

Oh, and for the record, Niamu tweeted back and said “Yes, I am no going to deny that I was a little hyped up. But I didn’t get the iPhone 3G and I saw this as relatively necessary.” which makes sense to me. He didn’t chomp at the bit to get the previous iteration, and so now seems like a good enough time to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that. And I get that he was hyped up to get it. I understand that too. But I think his half dozen panic tweets about an iPhone 3GS purchase being a hassle could have been avoided.

I have no problem with the iPhone 3GS. I have on problem with people who want to get it. I don’t even have a problem with people who get it on launch day. I’m just saying that if you find that situation to be stressful, I don’t understand why you would put yourself in that situation. Niamu gave his reasons. End of story. I wasn’t trying to be antagonistic in any way, so why do people come running at me swinging bats as if I’ve offended? Christ people, it isn’t a big deal.

Greetings folks,

It has been a while since my last post. A good, long while. Figured I might as well jump back into things and get talking.

I haven’t posted anything since May 23, 2009, which has probably been the most substantial discontinuity of content since the days where I could be grounded off of a computer.

Been devoting a lot of time to school work. So far, it is paying off. I’ve got 100% in History of Math, and I’ve got more than 100% in Astrophysics (so far). Complex Analysis is going moderately well, although the midterm (written today) kicked my ass a bit. Logic is going well, and Developmental Psychology is a joke.

My exam schedule completely bitch-slapped me. I have no final for History of Mathematics, just a final test during lectures. Same applies for Astrophysics. A final exam written on the last day of class. No big deal. Then, I check the exam schedule, and discover that my two hardest courses - Complex Analysis and Mathematical Logic - are on the exact same day, back to back. And Psych is a few days later. I’m done exams by August 8th. I’ve got 3 weeks to do whatever I want, which - while exciting - is also completely terrifying.

Bottom line, I wont be making another update until September.

Watched the E3 Press Conferences. Sony and Microsoft had good showings (although Microsoft was best). Nintendo disappointed yet again. New Super Mario Bros. looks interesting, although it is no Little Big Planet (not by a long shot). Super Mario Galaxy 2 looks mildly interesting, if only to have another 3D Mario game. I was disappointed that there was nothing from Pikmin 3 present. We got less information about Pikmin 3 this year than last year. Very disappointing.

The biggest thing that appealed to me was Golden Sun 3. Got me very excited. The biggest thing that appalled me was the Wii Vitality Sensor. All I can say is WHAT THE FUCK NINTENDO?

But enough about that.

Acquired copies of Tales of Innocence and Tales of Hearts. They are in their original Japanese (since no English copy exists), so I’m waiting for a fan translation to be developed.

In the meantime, I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger DS. Awesome game. Also, been watching Pushing Daisies at the unintentional suggestion of Brendon. It is an awesome show.

Hope you’ve all seen the Max Payne 3 stuff. People seem to be polarized on the nature of its awesomeness. It features a Max Payne 12 years older than in Max Payne 2, and he is balder, with a bit of a gut, and he is living in Brazil now. Some people love Max Payne unconditionally, and others are wary of the change in scenery of the game. I’m going to assume good things until I’m given a reason to doubt the game’s change of style. After all, noir stuff doesn’t have to take place in New York City.

My laptop was essentially bricked by Moblin 2. Sent it in to get screen repairs and an OS reload. They sent it back unreloaded. So, it still has Moblin 2 on it. Still looking for suggestions on how to fix that. Brendon? Other people with similar skills?

Anyway, just finished up with the Math Seminar on campus. 60 high school kids. I was a little bummed out that I had to take care of 21 on my own, but the female house parents had 5 girls per house parents. Seemed kind of unnecessary. But I’m just glad to subsidize my income with this. Now I have food. Plus, most of the kids are good. Except for the one who removed several layers of skin from the back of my hand (if I had my working Acer Aspire One, I’d snap a picture and show you).

The story behind the hand injury involves a game of truth or dare. I was dared to stand, legs spread, to receive a full force kick to the junk. I said to the kids - without any reservation - that there was no way in hell they were going to get anywhere near my junk. I accepted any alternative.

Doesn’t hurt that bad.

Anyway, gotta get back to work. Might update you all again soon enough. Oh, yeah. Enrolled in courses for Queens too. Forgot that. I’m taking Catholic Education with one of the girls in my program (she is incapable of doing things alone) and I’m also taking a Principal/Teaching course to prepare for becoming a Principal/Minister of Education/etc. somewhere down the line. Still not sure which route I want to take.

In case you get no new updates, on Sept. 1, I’ll be blogging from Kingston.

Cheers for now.

When I saw mbinkle respond to my anti Moblin tweets with the comment: “yeah, I expect perfection from public betas too. Beta means ‘retail ready’ right?”

I appreciated Binks’ attempts to rip on my grievances with Moblin,. I attempted to form an equally witty reply, but found that Moblin 2’s browser would not let me scroll back to the top of Twitter and let me input a response. So, I opened a new window, scrolled back down, and clicked the reply button. Nope. That shit doesn’t fly. Not in this OS.

Realizing that the comment was likely going to be longer than a Twitter response will allow, I came here. While writing this post, ever time I attempted a hard return to make a new paragraph, my screen grayed out giving the error message “www.http is not a valid protocol”. Don’t know where it was nabbing that from, but hey, more power to it.

(There it was again). So, to get to the heart of the matter, I don’t expect a public beta to be perfect. When I tried to open the browser settings and it said “Sorry, these aren’t ready yet.” I thought, “Oh, okay. Well, the browser still works, gives me a viable way to store my bookmarks, good enough.”

(There it is again). But no. The browser is just fundamentally broken. As in - it doesn’t work. No cookies are stored. Everytime I tried to go back to Twitter, it wouldn’t let me. The Instant Messanger doesn’t connect. Brendon says he cannot connect to the Internet at all, and agrees that it is stylish but not very functional.

(And again, twice that time, because the cursor was blinking and I tried to type, but it wouldn’t let me, and when I clicked the message appeared again). So, while I do not expect anywhere near perfection from a public beta, I expect it to work. Some of the features could be missing, and that’d be just fine, as long as it was a barely working system. Everything looks very nice. The GUI is damn sleek, and eveything looks splendid. Hell, even the file system and the word processor (yes, the word processor) LOOK really really good. But they suck functionally. Some things even don’t work at all.

(FUCK!) I’m not asking for perfection. I want bare minimum workability. As clever as you surely think your comment was, you wouldn’t be laughing if I hooked you up on a date with the most beautiful woman in the world and then you took her home and found out that the two of you couldn’t fuck. You’d break down or go into a rage, much like I am now with Moblin 2.

(THREE FUCKING TIMES): As a final note, you cannot even copy and paste properly. They have a pasteboard that you seem to be able to copy text too, but cannot paste it from there, and it is a third application. I had to manually retype your tweet. Garbage.

More ranting from her onward: As a further note, so many other things are broken too. All of the main selling features, even the connection to Twitter through the status tab, don’t seem to work at all. Moblin 2 (in its current version) doesn’t do much, and what it does it doesn’t do terribly well. Having this as my only operating system now on my netbook is kind of like being a kid and getting a toy for Christmas that is smashed to pieces with a tiny card that says “Fuckin’ play with it - From Santa”.

I’m down and out for a little while.

I’m not ill or anything. Just don’t have time to update the ol’ blog like I used to. Can’t imagine that anyone is reading anyway, we’re all so busy.

Anyway, check back in September, when I’m at Queen’s for Teacher’s College. Let the good times reign.

Not a real thing.

And SimGolf is actually a game made by Maxis and Sid Meier, making Andrew retroactively right about this, although wrong about Kryptonite.

I cannot believe I overlooked it. Fortunately, Stew keeps the January 10th as a day of silent prayer, to remember the loss of Lt. Col. Fitzpatrick “Fatty” Widebottom.

Everyone, take a moment of silence and remember…the pudgy purple Pikmin who saved us all from being crushed by a giant crustacean.