January 10th, 2011
Dumb Smarts
My phone is dumb. Idiotic, really. It has no apps, can’t connect to the Internet and – horror of horrors! – comes with no camera. It does make and receive calls, though, and not once have I had a dropped call.
My TV is also dumb. It needs a digital converter box and has no connection to the Internet or the Apple Store. I am surprised there’s not a cord hanging out of the remote. (more…)



I watched The Apprentice finale last week. Go ahead, judge me. In case you have dignity and didn’t watch, here’s how it went down: the pretty, articulate girl won.
In the movie Frequency, an interesting take on time travel, the main character John is able to talk to his dad over short-wave radio 30 years apart to save his dad’s life by warning him how he died. From there, the present changes and then all sorts of movie magic takes place, with plots twists and thrills that only Hollywood can come up with.
A few years ago, housing was hot. White hot. So hot that you had to get a prescription-based deodorant just to go to an open house.