Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Plants vs Zombies on PS3 ... not work
Just tried Plants VS Zombie (trial) on PS3, and really didn't like the control. Like World of Goo, PvZ is meant to be played on iPad.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
My Kinect fever is over
Tried Kinect at Best Buy today, and I realized that I was not particular enjoy playing Kinect sport anymore. I may still enjoy Dance Central, but buying a whole system just for 1 game sounds like stupid idea. So Microsoft, please create another good excuse for me to get an XBox 360.
Nook Color is a nice device ... for $200
I tried Nook color today. It's no iPad 2 competitor, but as a low end device, it has a reasonably smooth user interface. For $259, it seems too expansive, consider that you can get an iPad gen 1 refurbished for $359. Nook color will have a future if it is priced at $199.
Also, if you are serious book reader, Kindle Is still a way better choice because of the awesome battery life, work great under direct sunlight, super lightweight and great book selection.
Also, if you are serious book reader, Kindle Is still a way better choice because of the awesome battery life, work great under direct sunlight, super lightweight and great book selection.
So that is Xoom
I finally got a chance to play Motorola's Xoom Honeycomb tablet at BestBuy.
my first impression: it's heavy, which is definitely not a good thing. There was an iPad 2 10 steps away from the Xoom, and after I lifted the iPad 2, it's very obvious that iPad 2 is lighter. Bad, bad first impression.
To be fair, the user interface of Xoom is very rock solid. Everything runs super smooth. Even the animation on Angry Birds is smoother than on my HTC Desire. Compare with the gingerbread hack tablet os, honeycomb is way better.
The biggest problem, though, is still the app support and price. iPad 2 equally fast, but lighter, better battery life, have shit tons of apps specifically for iPad, and the final nail: iPad 2 actually is cheaper.
I am looking forward to see the cheaper lighter version from HTC, while Xoom continue being death on arrival.
my first impression: it's heavy, which is definitely not a good thing. There was an iPad 2 10 steps away from the Xoom, and after I lifted the iPad 2, it's very obvious that iPad 2 is lighter. Bad, bad first impression.
To be fair, the user interface of Xoom is very rock solid. Everything runs super smooth. Even the animation on Angry Birds is smoother than on my HTC Desire. Compare with the gingerbread hack tablet os, honeycomb is way better.
The biggest problem, though, is still the app support and price. iPad 2 equally fast, but lighter, better battery life, have shit tons of apps specifically for iPad, and the final nail: iPad 2 actually is cheaper.
I am looking forward to see the cheaper lighter version from HTC, while Xoom continue being death on arrival.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
One table, four person, 2 converstation, and once again, Cee Lo Green
Have you ever got into a situation in which you were talking to a few person, and in the middle of the conversation, two of them started to have a conversation among themselves, and even ignored you all together? Well, I was in that kind of situation tonight.
Ironically, the one who ignored me was the one who lead the prayer before we had our dinner, asked God to "bless the conversation during the dinner."
It happened after a church Sunday service band practice. The worship leader was wonder if anyone interested in have dinner together. Since I went straight to church after work, so I joined the dinner. Turns out there was 4 person going to the dinner.
I drove to the sushi restaurant someone picked, sat down, and started chatting with a friend about his new iphone and asked what app he used. He told me some apps he liked and started explaining why he liked those apps. I started to realize that the other 2 guys didn't say a thing, so I wondered if they found the app discussion a bit "too geeky and too boring" to them. So I started looking a them once in a while and see when I could get them into the conversation, or even change to subjects that they were interest it. But my friend one those "once talk, can't stop", and by the time he stopped, the other 2 already started their skiing converstation.
Personally I really don't like it when 4 person on the same table, and yet each pair have their own conversation, It's like we didn't know each other and only happen to sit together. So I intentionally stopped a bit, and ask the another 2 friends what they were talking about, and see if my friend can I can join in, Since it was about skiing, there's nothing I can say as I never skied before. My friend did, and so he could chip in. That's fine. I mean, at least 4 of us were once again being "together".
But then we started talking about learning Japanese language, and while I was in the middle of explaining the mobile application Google Translator, the other 2 started to have their own conversation. I was like, dude, I paid my due by pretending like I enjoyed listening about skiing, so the least you could do is at least wait until I finished my conversation before you turned away, Right?
Well, I didn't attempt to establish a united conversation again since then. My friend and I continued my conversation on manga, mobile phone and Japanese, while the other two were talking about who knows what.
And I overheard the song by Cee Lo Green playing from the speaker. "Why do they have to play the clean 'Forget You' version, " I was thinking.
The dinner ended in a very awkward way. The worship leader paid for all of us. I was thankful for that, but still decided to never dining with him ever again. Maybe he had that decision too, found that having dinner with a geeky person like me being such a painful experience.
I was feeling so uneasy about the dinner that I kept thinking about it while I was driving, and was extremely close to crashing into a bus (really, no kidding).
You are asked me why I stopped going to fellowship.
Ironically, the one who ignored me was the one who lead the prayer before we had our dinner, asked God to "bless the conversation during the dinner."
It happened after a church Sunday service band practice. The worship leader was wonder if anyone interested in have dinner together. Since I went straight to church after work, so I joined the dinner. Turns out there was 4 person going to the dinner.
I drove to the sushi restaurant someone picked, sat down, and started chatting with a friend about his new iphone and asked what app he used. He told me some apps he liked and started explaining why he liked those apps. I started to realize that the other 2 guys didn't say a thing, so I wondered if they found the app discussion a bit "too geeky and too boring" to them. So I started looking a them once in a while and see when I could get them into the conversation, or even change to subjects that they were interest it. But my friend one those "once talk, can't stop", and by the time he stopped, the other 2 already started their skiing converstation.
Personally I really don't like it when 4 person on the same table, and yet each pair have their own conversation, It's like we didn't know each other and only happen to sit together. So I intentionally stopped a bit, and ask the another 2 friends what they were talking about, and see if my friend can I can join in, Since it was about skiing, there's nothing I can say as I never skied before. My friend did, and so he could chip in. That's fine. I mean, at least 4 of us were once again being "together".
But then we started talking about learning Japanese language, and while I was in the middle of explaining the mobile application Google Translator, the other 2 started to have their own conversation. I was like, dude, I paid my due by pretending like I enjoyed listening about skiing, so the least you could do is at least wait until I finished my conversation before you turned away, Right?
Well, I didn't attempt to establish a united conversation again since then. My friend and I continued my conversation on manga, mobile phone and Japanese, while the other two were talking about who knows what.
And I overheard the song by Cee Lo Green playing from the speaker. "Why do they have to play the clean 'Forget You' version, " I was thinking.
The dinner ended in a very awkward way. The worship leader paid for all of us. I was thankful for that, but still decided to never dining with him ever again. Maybe he had that decision too, found that having dinner with a geeky person like me being such a painful experience.
I was feeling so uneasy about the dinner that I kept thinking about it while I was driving, and was extremely close to crashing into a bus (really, no kidding).
You are asked me why I stopped going to fellowship.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Rip off
I spent 2 hours last night driving to the new ballet studio to make sure that I knew exactly how to get to there. So glad that I did, because I made every single possible mistake I could make, wandered into some strange neighborhood, but eventually got on the freeway and got back home.
Still I wasn't sure if I could get to the studio on time after all, so I left office half an hour in advance. Once again, glad that I did that, because it turned out that there was a traffic jam (in fact I don't know if the traffic will happen every single time I go to the class at around 6:00 pm). I found the parking garage that the ballet studio suggested, and even brought 5 of the $1.50 coupon for 2 hours parking.
And so I took the class at the new studio, which was fine. I mean, ballet studio is ballet studio. There's nothing particularly spectacular. Regular professional quality studio I guess it was.
Then at the end of the class my teacher told me that the street side parking was actually free after 6 pm. That was my first WTF. And then when I used to coupon to get out, I was told that I parked 15 minutes over the 2 hour limit, so that's EXTRA $2. And finally, maybe because I was in such a lousy mood, my seemed to missed a turn instructed by the iPad GPS, and turned out got me into (once again) strange dark neighborhood. And that was another 30 minutes before I found the way to get out. WTF. Double WTF.
Still I wasn't sure if I could get to the studio on time after all, so I left office half an hour in advance. Once again, glad that I did that, because it turned out that there was a traffic jam (in fact I don't know if the traffic will happen every single time I go to the class at around 6:00 pm). I found the parking garage that the ballet studio suggested, and even brought 5 of the $1.50 coupon for 2 hours parking.
And so I took the class at the new studio, which was fine. I mean, ballet studio is ballet studio. There's nothing particularly spectacular. Regular professional quality studio I guess it was.
Then at the end of the class my teacher told me that the street side parking was actually free after 6 pm. That was my first WTF. And then when I used to coupon to get out, I was told that I parked 15 minutes over the 2 hour limit, so that's EXTRA $2. And finally, maybe because I was in such a lousy mood, my seemed to missed a turn instructed by the iPad GPS, and turned out got me into (once again) strange dark neighborhood. And that was another 30 minutes before I found the way to get out. WTF. Double WTF.
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