Category Archives: Gallery

Photo sets, albums, and visual stories.

New Goodies

Gallery, Politics

I’ve been very popular with the UPS guy the past couple of days, getting a package yesterday and two today. The package yesterday was a small one from SonyStyle, and is a second battery for my GRX-570. This is nice because espescially as work other places than my desk more and more using the 802.11b my battery life on the Sony, while certainly better than the Toshiba that preceded it, is still a limiting factor. This requires unplugging the combo drive from the hot-swap bay, but doubles thet time I can spend out. The main concern right now is a can’t find the little plastic piece that covers up the rest of the bay when the battery is in there. I’ll put up some pictures tonight.

The other packages both came from Fossil. The first is a wallet that I saw in their online store and just couldn’t resist it. On that note they have one of the best designed and easy-to-use online stores I’ve ever had the pleasure of being exposed to. So in summary I was a good capitalist and voted with my wallet. (haha)

The second is actualy one of Fossil’s new line of PDA watches. This is, quite honestly, something I wouldn’t have paid for but they sent one down that I am going to review for HPUG. More on that later.

Cell Phone Torture Test

Gallery, Music

This has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Basically, it’s a Dutch show where they conduct humorous torture tests on different products. First off, the Dutch language is one of the strangest things I’’ve heard in my life, and that alone made the video worth it, but also they torture test my phone, the T68 from SonyEricsson. You can watch the stream here (WMP link, broadband), or with RealPlayer here. Forward to about 20:30 to see the water thing. For those of you without broadband, let me paint a picture:

Basically they’ve set up what looks like two showerheads, and they give the phone in question to the host of the show who stands under the two showerheads and talks. They did this for about 15 minutes with the T68 and it was still running. At one point they bring him a glass of Coke and he sticks the phone in that and it keeps going. After about 15 minutes I think they got bored, and the guy goes ahead and throws the phone into a bucket of water. Where it keeps going. The phone actually went for another three minutes completely submerged, all the time with that prerecorded voice they had on the other of the line talking. Thinking back the only way I can think of them being on hold that long is if they called Sony tech support :).

Updates

Gallery, Travel

I can’t find time to write everyday, but there is almost always a new day in the photolog. Baltimore was a blast today, and the Orioles/Yankee game was one of the best I’ve ever seen, live or on TV. I hope that the teams in Houston can bring back the magic that they seem to have lost.