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Feld Thoughts : Two Weeks Later, I’m Loving The HTC EVO

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:39:29 +0000

So nice to see Android getting the attention it deserved. I'll be in line Friday morning to pick on up as well, had the Palm Pre (which I really liked) on Sprint and I found the coverage to be excellent.

Jasbone's Thoughts : 3,000 Push-up Challenge Complete

Tue, 18 May 2010 16:39:04 +0000

I just keep count in my head. Since I generally do them in sets of 40 or 50 it's pretty easy to keep track. For my P90X workouts I wrote a web based app that I can use to track all my reps and weights. Used it yesterday at the gym and it worked great, I'll have to show it to you...

Jasbone's Thoughts : 3,000 Push-up Challenge Complete

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:13:44 +0000

Well so far I'm failing in the pull-up challenge. Getting 50 of them in a day has been really tough. I'll continue with the push-ups though, in fact I better do a few right now!

Jasbone's Thoughts : Push-up Challenge – 1000 down

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:23:01 +0000

Thanks Tara - I've been doing P90X for the last few months, I'm at the end of week 7 of 12 right now. Amazing program and is really working great for me. I've been working out roughly 10 times a week for about the last 5 weeks. Doing my triathlon in June so have to start hitting the pool too. You've been doing Cross Fit, right? We should grab lunch sometime and compare. Nice going Jake. With this it's just 100 day, any amount you want in each set as long as you hit 100. I generally do 25-30 at a time and will occasionally push to failure (can hit 40 if I try). Any style you want, I'm just doing standard wide pushups for now. Next month I'll switch to something harder like diamonds, etc.

Jasbone's Thoughts : Apple why do you think we’re stupid? – iPhone OS 4.0

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:16:26 +0000

Well done Ryan, well done.

Jasbone's Thoughts : Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:41:50 +0000

Sorry, don't remember writing a post on that ;-)

Jasbone's Thoughts : Apple why do you think we’re stupid? – iPhone OS 4.0

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:33:32 +0000

Totally agree with you Clover - it shouldn't be necessary to use any task manager but it should be available to those of us that DO know what we are doing. I really do applaud Apple's goal of making things easy on the people that need it. I don't need it, give me the power. Apple has consistently dumbed down their products for this mystery bottom feeder out there. I am not him, don't insult me and treat me as I am.

Jasbone's Thoughts : iPad – The Anti-Internet Device

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:30:25 +0000

I understand what you are both saying - and I think I diluted my point. My main premise is that the internet is an open platform and for any device to say you get the "best web experience" and doesn't embrace that openness is kidding themselves. As for the App Store I think the premise is fantastic but the implementation is flawed. You MUST play by Apple's rules (rules they don't follow themselves) and you are completely and totally locked into their world of DRM. I fully understand that groups create standards like you mention Jake (JPEG, MPEG, Flash, etc) but I'm only limited by my choice to use those things, not by my vendor. In short it's MY device and I should be able to do what I want to with it. You are right that I'm VERY anti-Apple these days but wrong about me being a MS fanboy. While I use Windows and MS technologies they are also evil, just in very different ways. Todd one thing about your argument about their Apps being more engrossing than the internet. That sounds very reminiscent of the AOL days when why would you use the net when you have AOL? AOL brought everything to you in a nice, easy to use, virus free way. And what happened to AOL again? Keep 'em coming guys, this is fun.

Jasbone's Thoughts : iPad - the problems

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:57:19 +0000

Well maybe you should get one before you spout off and show everyone you clearly don't know what you're talking about. I work out 8-10 times a week, I've been doing P90X for 60 days, I do 100 push-ups a day. Every day. 1.5lbs is nothing. But when you're holding a device like this it becomes heavy over time. More just annoying than heavy but it's not good none the less. Remember weight is all relative. A 9lbs laptop used to be pretty standard a number of years ago, now anything over 4lbs is considered fairly big. And that is something you only have to carry over your shoulder. Holding the iPad for extended periods of time becomes obnoxious. So use one for an extended period and know what you're talking about - then by all means come back and proclaim how much stronger you are than all of us. Then put your arms straight out at your sides (with no weight) and make small circles. I'd bet you money you can't do that for 2 minutes and its really easy. At first.

Jasbone's Thoughts : iPad - the problems

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:41:18 +0000

A few of your have commented that the iPad isn't meant as a laptop replacement and while I do agree with that I have to ask what is it then? Apple has said many times it's meant as a Netbook replacement but I think it fails here for all the reasons I state above. In fact I have no idea who this device is really for. As far as I can tell it's for people with more money than sense that want to play with something shiny from Apple. Definitely a cool product but definitely not one that anyone needs. And Todd you couldn't be more right - god how I hate iTunes...

Jasbone's Thoughts : Introducing Ginger

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:37:43 +0000

Wow, what a truly amazing car you have!!!

McInblog : Netflix's 10 Year Sustained Bandwidth is 200 Gigabits Per Second!

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:42:35 +0000

That's great Ryan - the only thing I'd add is your calculations are off by roughly half, a comerical DVD is 8.5 GB, not 4.7 (they are dual layer). So really it's just about double this, again in very rough math. But holy wow, who know the USPS could sustain such bandwidth!

Mendelson's Musings : Which Sports Car Are You?

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:52:46 +0000

Well apparently I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena which I am also just fine with!

The Foodzie Blog : Bacon at it's Best

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:18:40 +0000

I can also attest to being taught about Benton's Bacon by Chris - it is amazing stuff and WELL worth the wait. I've got one pound left waiting for a special occasion. Oh and while they told me 7 weeks I got mine in about 2 so maybe you'll get lucky...

Feld Thoughts : What Do You Suck At?

Wed, 28 May 2008 09:56:57 +0000

Apparently I suck at whitelisting things in spam filters...

Feld Thoughts : Unintended Consequences from Frontier

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:15:32 +0000

I am so glad you posted this - I've been semi-curious about this all day and the way you summed it up was just perfect. My initial reaction was "fucking airline industry" but clear Frontier did the "right" thing here - amazing that this isn't being reported more straight forwardly - then again the media just loves to slam the airlines these days.

Thanks Brad, great post.

Jasbone's : Using Google Translation on your site

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:43:44 +0000

Valid point but I don't really have any other options do I? If I put it in French all the Danes would be made, etc, etc. I figure if you're on my blog and a non-native English speaker you know enough to figure it out.

Colorado Startups : Listen

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:41:35 +0000

Neil I completely agree with everyone you said, well with one exception. I'm doubting any kids that can't read are interested in this blog! HA!

Colorado Startups : Listen

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:00:47 +0000

I've gotta say this is actually pretty impressive. The phrasing and quality of the digital voice is very listenable. You can tell it's a computer but I think this is VERY useful. Gonna be installing this on my blog very soon, thanks for sharing David.

Jasbone's : Using Google Translation on your site

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:52:29 +0000

If you can show me a link to your site I don't mind having a look to see what's up.