The bad news just keeps rolling in. Yesterday, we heard the tragic news that Larry King – the “Monkey’s Paw” of cable news – is retiring. Speculation is now on who will fill Larry’s suspenders in the 9PM time slot for CNN. Personally, I think they just ought to show reruns of Crossfire with Bob Novak. Not full shows – just “best of” clips of Bob. That way they can continue the Zombie host theme. But if they must find a live person, I hope they don’t go with any of the Huffington Post’s suggestions, which include Ryan Seacrest (I must confess, thought I’ve heard the name, I have no idea what it is he’s ‘famous’ for. I assume it’s got something to do with American Idol, but, having never watched it, I’m not really sure), Jeff Probst (again, no clue who that is), Katie Couric, and Kathy Griffin. I’d like to siggest Matt Taibbi (who explains why Lara Logan – whose baby daddy is war profiteer State Department contractor Joe Burkett – sucks – and not in a good way). Oh, I know, CNN would never go with an actual reporter-type person over a ‘celebrity’, and they’d need somebody with a quick finger on the dump button, ‘cuz Matt tends to say “fuck” a lot, but I think it’d awfully nice to have somebody doing interviews that would ask more probing questions than “how old were you when you first found out how great you are, and has your greatness been a burden on you?”
Speaking of sucking, the White House did some heavy-duty sucking up to MA Senator Scott Brown in order to get his support on Financial Reform. And what did all that sucking get them? A face full of, um, egg. Brown now says he’s a ‘no’ vote on reform. Turns out that, after having the government bail out all these companies that pay their upper echelon management people (who drove their companies into the toilet) hundred of millions of dollars in bonuses, Republicans want the government to also bear the financial burden of reform. Shocking, I know. I thought for sure Republicans would be on the side of the small people.
Well, to get going, I guess. Maybe I’ll use my new $10 Dunkin’ Donuts credit card thay I just got in honor of 20 years of service. Fifty cents a year. Not bad.
Interesting story at CNN about leaked Apple customer service documents on how to deal with the nothing wrong with iPhone 4 reception issue that isn’t an issue.
Reminds me of the olden days, when we’d contort ourselves in various positions with the rabbit ears and wads of tin foil, trying to get our favorite teevee channel to come in.
Except it was kind of the opposite – the reception was always great when you were holding the antenna, but it would turn to shit as soon as you sat back down in your chair.
I just noticed this this morning trying to dial in the new MS lead on my iPhone .05 Generation; it would often freeze or not load and I thought it was my not so great AT&T wireless service. If I change the way I hold it, it loads right away. Thanks for the tip, OKat.
Trouble is, I was holding it in a very natural, maybe the most natural position in my hand. Hold it other ways and you risk accidentally touching the screen and getting transported to somewhere else entirely. Just like all of the accidental redials on the phone function.
Nice item but not godly or perfect by any means.
I’m not really a huge fan of my BlackBerry (mostly, I consider it an electronic leash that my job has me on), but I have literally tried holding it every which way in an effort to get the reception to drop even one bar, and I can’t make it happen. And it’s even ATT, which I also am not a fan of. Something just aint right there. I guess maybe they figured nobody would hold it to use as a phone (bluetooth headsets or something).
I’m definitely interested to see the how the upcoming Droid X works out. The screen sounds great (at 4.3 inches, it’s almost an inch bigger than the iPhone), and I like that it runs on the open source Android OS, and that it will support Flash 10.1 and lots of other non-Apple-approved apps.
But the thing that interests me most is that it includes a WiFi hotspot. So you’ll be able to use your Verizon data plan to connect to the Internet, and then share the connection with up to 5 other devices (laptops, other phones, etc.). If it works well, it’ll be a very nice feature.
Don’t want to be a debby downer but I read on some techie website that the Droids (especially the 4G) suck batteries dry in pretty short order and that the Flash doesn’t work very well if at all.
Previews I’ve read of the Droid X say the battery life is fantastic. Won’t know for sure ’til it comes out. It’ll run Android 2.2, which isn’t on many phones out there at the moment. I don’t think Granny has complained about her battery life. Haven’t heard that Flash performance is poor, but then I don’t have one, so I don’t know from personal experience. I’m sure the ARMv7 1 GHz processor will help (with 2 GHz supposedly coming by Xmas). And the Droid X will be compatible with new Flash 10.1. So, we’ll see. Never can tell until these things get out into the wild and actual people get to use them.
Hell, for all you know, they won’t work if you hold them in your hand or something.