Archive for January, 2010
New BlackBerry Bold 9700
Last weekend I did a quick trip up to d.c. again to try and suck up enough of the sights as possible in the little bit of time I have left before trucking to Florida. We stopped off at the Museum of American History to get a buffalo burger and some other indigenous food along with checking out a few of the outside works of art. Afterwards we stumbled over to the Museum of Natural History to check out a huge armored-fish (Dunkleosteus terrelli) skull that apparently was unearthed in the Beaver Creek area not far from where I lived.
I’ve been due for a while for a new phone but I put it off thanks to the Christmas season (and the load of money I dropped on people). I figured it was about time to put down my trusty BlackBerry Curve 8300 and upgrade to something prettier. The sales guy at the kiosk convinced me to steer away from the curve and welcome myself to the bold models, mainly on the computing abilities of the bold as well as the trackpad instead of the trackball that the curve models have. I must say, the trackpad is definitely a different lifestyle to learn when you’re so used to the trackball, but I’ve absolutely fallen in love with the trackpad. Its so much smoother and sensitive, and its extremely accurate.
BlackBerry Bold 9700
Unsupervised in DC
Chaos was imminent last weekend with just the two deadheads together jammin’. Had to make so odd arrangements given that the Christmas tree is being left up in all means to become the Valentine’s Day tree, Easter tree, so on and so forth. We managed to take a nice tour throughout a bit of the river-front walkway, down and past the Marine barracks and the Washington Navy yard. We ran through a bit of woods leading from the RFK stadium by the cemetary and ran across quite the well-established urban campsite, even equipped with ‘POSTED: KEEP OUT” signs. Running by a really creepy shut down hospital across from the National Guard’s Armory, Matt informed me the story of the roller derby they have hosted there at the Armory, and how he got quite smashed and hung out with the yuppies there while the women half naked in tight clothing banged on each other.
I got the cache working on the Yahoo API script, but haven’t managed to get around to uploading it to the server, sooner or later it’ll be up there (Hell, I might even make a post specifically about it). I also recently purchased the new BlackBerry Bold 9000 and I must say, the trackpad is a huge improvement over the Curve’s trackball.
New Years with the USS Eisenhower guys
I have to give thanks to Danny and Ryan for throwing a few awesome parties to kick-off the new years and to spend before they deployed to the Gulf. A dozen cases of brew and a few dozen bottles of liquor as well as a stripper-pole in the living room made the experience quite memorable. I played DD so my buddies could enjoy their evenings, but I had an awesome time shooting shit with some interesting people and letting my buddies dig themselves into some holes with their ‘Oprah sessions’.
I received a comment on here in regards to my weather API, so I’ll be updating it to include a caching option by the end of the week (you’re welcome Ali). I’m also still diligently working on my Record Keeper and pretty close to finishing the main foundation to it and will be completing the first module and quite possibly the second and third modules by the middle of the month.