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It’s been rumored for years, and the technology is brilliant, something that harks back to my fascination with this one of the more innocuous pieces of standard crime-fighting equipment. And while Apple’s compromised on privacy concerns to alert anyone nearby, I bet there’s still enough time for a swing through the city to find out where the girl of your dreams lives your stolen bike is.

My last weekend with YouTube on the AppleTV (fuck Google for ending support over ads; the Yahoo! Screen app still airs Community without them) I spent browsing some montages of battle sequences from 宇宙戦艦ヤマト and Battlestar Galactica, and I realized it was from the latter that Man of Steel borrowed its cinematography. Later that night I sat through one of the bad alien episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and noticed on a commercial for Gilligan’s Island that Dawn Wells looked quite a bit like Jenna-Louise Coleman:

I find making connections like these strangely rewarding. “The Invisibles clouds,” I call them. Maybe it’s not too strange, after all; in my declining years, it’s more comforting than to admit there’s more left that I can’t account for.

The Sony’s wore like how I imagine clip-on piercings would, and crapped out like the other $20 disposables, and while I was comforted by the thicker gauge of the Apple in-ear buds, their pendulous weight is unavoidable. So if not for this nagging cough, I’d be reporting back on these Sennheisers, whose cost I justify with an unheard-of two-year manufacturer’s warranty. Cords still look flimsy, exposed as they are in a wraparound track that’s twice the size of the Nike design, but I like how its first “section” is just the right length to my upper arm, and I can do without the rest. The question remains: can I even run anymore?

Another accessory that makes the device. Recently 老婆 actually expressed interest in it, but I’m still not convinced, and won’t be until they at least add a phone to the thing.

Jailbreaking with Spirit was easy as pie, PdaNet worked so well I bought a license, but I just had to be greedy and try Martin’s Chinese solution to install api’s. Cookies in apps no longer saving—and no, the permission fix didn’t help—and some even stopped working altogether. So yeah, full restore with an old backup. (If I were more daring, I’d have tried the firmware downgrade at the time, because I’ll have to, eventually.) Next day I get back on the Itchy and Scratchy Land log ride for Marcelo’s cracked TV player to watch the World Cup. Sucks when you’re not satisfied with Steve Jobs’ vision of the world for everyone.

(I suppose it could’ve been worse.)

Name reminds me of how 윤대섭 once called the place “Pizza Hat”. What a tremendous missed opportunity not to have included a forward camera for Skype users, or even allow running IM clients in the background. No, this isn’t what I thought might alleviate my burden of carrying around an impotent web browser and unconnected computer. Seems to me that Apple struck gold when they mined the then-listless smartphone and MP3 player markets, but this time they’ve got a lot more convincing to do with their giant iPod Touch.

Score one—for the consumer? The Macbook trackpad suddenly stopped depressing, and I discovered the cause was a swollen battery. I mean, pictures can’t do it justice; the bulge in the White glaze made it resemble Stormtrooper armor even more (the rounder parts thereof). Got to thinking about retiring the 3-year-old machine rather than spending $100+ on a replacement, but read that others with the same problem managed to get it free, out of warranty, by bringing it in, so I took a chance and made a “Genius Bar” appointment. I awoke from a jetlag-induced nap to ponder continuing it, staying and watching the premiere of the V remake or futilely trying to make it to South Coast in 15 minutes, but in this turn of events at least, the staff there was gracious with both my tardiness and their product defect. Still gonna go with ASUS next. Touch my heart, Taiwan.

Microsoft’s up to its tricks again. Now we’re supposed to believe their subscription model actually saves people money? Let’s see: four or five years of Live, you’ve already made up the price difference between a PS3 and under-equipped 360. Not to mention uncompensated RROD-time. And at least with Netflix we can rip the movies we borrow.

Finally, some straight talk.

Oh snap, check out what I came across looking for that screencap (and ending up having to do myself, only to learn that my MacBook’s SuperDrive is failing in OSX, too; thank god for my pre-PS2 Sony portable DVD-ROM), scans from Jack Kirby’s aborted adaptation, which I remember seeing even further back on eBay starting at $3500. I’m over art collecting, but I’ll keep what I can get:
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