King of the Gadget Geeks

I have to admit, I have or had close to all the gadget in this photo (first photo). I also happen to have an original Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone too (second photo).  Hah!  Take that!

How the Mighty have Fallen

 Who will Buy Palm?

by Jean-Louis Gassée

An interesting article on the demise of Palm Inc.  I've heard from quite a few people on how saddened they are that Palm might not survive- seeing as they are the ones that popularized PDAs.  I actually learned that I was a gadget freak from Palm.  How I lusted after a PDA, and after I purchased one, boy did I show it off to everyone.  Later after I bought a Compaq PDA, I remember having buyers remorse for not getting a Palm Treo 270 (see picture above).  Heck that thing still looks better than most of the cell phones available now. 

Best of luck Palm, I hope you guys make it.

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The iPad paradox: Less is more

Topic: Technology

The iPad paradox: Less is more
 A new trend has emerged where gadget limitations are touted as features
By Mike Elgan

Even though I like the article, I don't totally agree with the writers premise that people are suffering information overload and its ugly cousin, runaway gadget complexity and products that voluntary limit itself is the new trend.  That's a little too generalized and I think most of us prefer options and will accept most of the hassles that comes with it.  When the glitches and tech support become too much of a frustration are what people have problems with.  An example of this is MS Excel.  Its a great product that can do very complex task but if you don't need them (most of us don't) it works just fine doing the basic graph, calculations, table functions.  That's what I think most people want: make the basics bulletproof and then give a caveat, "advance features could be be very frustrating and requires a steep learning curve.  Do you want to continue?"    That little warning should satisfy most of us.

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Shutter Island

Shutter Island

This film reminds me a lot of Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet, with a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock from Marty Scorsese.  The twist in the end really works. It wasn’t difficult to figure out (especially when Leo’s character started talking to his dead wife) but it was hard to be certain if  there wouldn’t be another twist to the twist.  

I have to say that I’m beginning to appreciate Leonardo di Caprio more.  I think he’s become a great actor. He gets better and better after each movie.  I just noticed that I’ve watched probably all his films in the last 10 years.  Not bad for someone I considered a punk pretty boy once.

Unfortunately this was not Scorsese’s best film.  I don’t know if it’s because it takes time for the story to develop, which isn’t ever done anymore, or because I originally thought it was a ghost movie.  Either case, I thought it was a fine but I’d wait for it to show on HBO.    

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More Great One Sentence...

One Sentence Blog

I can't stop the tears as I shuffle through a box under our bed and find a tattered letter to Santa, written by my now drug addicted son.

-Dad

I don't have a son but I can feel the sadness and confusion this father has.  I have a nephew, we were pretty close when he was a kid and I loved him like he was my one.  Now we are strangers.

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When he told his four-year-old daughter that the doctor just needed to look at her eyes to make sure they were okay, she whispered, "Will he put them back in when he's done looking at them?"

-myfairmaybe

For those of you who don't have kids, or has a nephew, you'll never know how heartwarming moments like these really are.

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I didn't even know Orson Welles was still alive

is very concerned about the aliens invading the Republic of Georgia

Posted via email from Dario Cruz's Posterous
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Congratulations Manny!

wants to congratulate Manny Pacquiao for another victory.  Now we want Mayweather!

Posted via email from Dario Cruz's Posterous

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Another Great One Sentence

In case you didn't read my previous blog, I found this site called One Sentence

I just read this and thought it was one of the better ones:

I stole one of my roommates brownies on my way out the door and arrived at the job interview too stoned to talk. 

-Jay

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Pilotless drones... of things to come.

Topic: Military Technology

An interesting article, "Combat Generation: Drone operators climb on winds of change in the Air Force," in the Times about how the Air Force may one day have more "pilots" in front of a monitor than a cockpit. It makes sense, after all, what air force in the world is dumb enough to duke it out with the USAF. I'm just surprised no companies have sold the Islamist jamming technology yet.

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