Because the Facebook app seems to be resizing and reencoding the images, I’m just posting the original jpg files for these pictures. Click on the image for a new window with a cropped image, and click a second time for the Full Size Version. Pictures taken from the 75th Floor of the Columbia Tower using
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Swapping between Android devices is really simple. Plug in your Google account info and immediately your contacts, calendar and gmail are setup. Next, going into the Play store, your already-purchased and installed apps are identified and ready to be put on the new phone. When you download Chrome, your Google account syncs your browser settings
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I wouldn’t normally post an unboxing, but arriving home from the Mariner’s game tonight I found two delivery boxes waiting for me, and one of them was wrapped in HTC tape! I’m a long-time HTC fan. My first smartphone was an HTC EVO 4G, and my second an HTC EVO 3D. I convinced my father
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Trailers are real. I’m just making up a fake storyline based on the images. Nice bridge, but where the heck is everyone? Spock is still reeling from the destruction of his race. Let’s have him take a solo journey through a firey planet and meditate. Kirk and Bones are doing something that probably breaks the
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The line at the Microsoft Store is for the new Surface, it’s not the line to get a latte from Starbucks. There has been the saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. That must have been the way the first engineers at Xerox PARC reacted when they internally showed the first computer
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One of the great surprises of Fantastic Fest this year was the arrival of Andy and Lana Wachowski who brought their new film Cloud Atlas to the festival. The Wachowskis have been known to be media and press shy, and it was refreshing to see them so smart and so full of enthusiasm for their
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The argument has been made that government investments in clean energy are essential for the United States to maintain its position as a leader of technology and innovation. The DOE’s fear was that China’s large internal investments in clean energy were putting the US at-risk of falling too-far behind. On that I can not fully
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If you were like most college students, for each class you would spend $100 per college textbook, use it, and then at the end of the semester you would choose to keep it as a reference or resell the book back to the college bookstore. The original book publisher made money on the first sale, and
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I love the Olympics. I love the opening ceremonies. I love the competition and the drama. Not so much in 2012. It started wrong with the Opening Ceremonies Danny Boyle put together a London 2012 Olympics Ceremony that was a movie with a beautiful soundtrack, a compelling set of stories, and 40,000 extras who
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It was only yesterday that I went to my second autocross event, and the first one that I did happened nine years ago. From Seattle, getting to Bremerton requires either driving South to Tacoma before heading back North or crossing via ferry. As you are driving through 25 and 30 MPH residential roads through the
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