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My Trusty Dusty G1 is Stuck on 1.6 – No Google+ for me

I purchased my first Smartphone early this year, and since it was an out-of-pocket cost, it’s an older phone. It was the T-Mobile G1, which I had heard was all the rave. This morning I found out that maybe a few years ago it was, but not today.

This morning (yes, I’m a very early riser), I decided to install Google+ for Android on my phone. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and trotted over to my wireless modem. Since the antenna was snapped off, the poor thing can only cast a signal in my living room and not much further. I have finally managed to get it to hold a charge, and so for this momentous occasion, I would finally be able to check out Google+ on my Android phone! Hooray! I looked through the market and couldn’t find the app.

Okay, I said to myself. Maybe I just have to go online, scan a QR code, and voila, I’ll be done.

Not so much. Apparently Google+ only works on Android 2.1 and above.

My poor little G1 is on 1.6. Permanently, it seems, although there’s a mod for Cyanogen that could help me get it. There’s also a chance that my G1 could get mistakenly bricked – a term for turning my phone into a useless piece of tech. I’m not sure that I won’t mess it up, or that it won’t mess itself up. My phone is somewhat prone to dying randomly. I don’t think it will now that it’s fully charged, but that full charge doesn’t seem to last very long at times. Not sure what that is, though I’ve gotten a new battery to combat that.

Considering that I’ve had troubles (like the aforementioned ones) with this phone before, it might be an excuse to get a new phone finally. I don’t like to get new tech unless I absolutely need it, and to top things off this phone is unlocked (well, I have the code to do it now, anyway; not planning on switching from T-Mobile any time soon…). I have a laptop purchase that prevails over that, because while my eMachines T6532 that I bought in 2006/7 still functions, it’s not able to keep up with a lot of the games that I’ve purchased recently.

What kind of phone do you have? If your phone is an Android, what version is it running? And what’s the oldest piece of tech that you have that you still use today?

Retooling and Finding Focus

I’ve been really thinking hard about the direction I want my career to go in, and I’ve had to make a couple of decisions that make me somewhat sad, but push me further toward my goals…

As far as game design goes, I’ve decided that my focuses are in casual games, visual novels, and mobile apps. I always wanted to design a hit game for a major console system, but I feel that at this time in my life, this is where my interests and skills most strongly lie. I will be taking a number of steps to develop myself to follow this path.

I still plan on  doing writing, as that tends to get bills paid, and it’s great exercise besides. I’m also working on getting the new site design up and running. Once I get started it shouldn’t take me much more than two days.

I’m also pretty fed up with Facebook, at this point. It’s a total time sink, aside from when I get to use it to push my content. I’m trying to determine how to split out my posts, but I’m thinking making Kaali Billi Innovation’s page live and linking it to this blog would be good. Or maybe even a different blog, we’ll see. I’ve been thinking about changing the domain name I have registered for here. I’ll come up with some actions  for that and let you know.

Lastly, I’m going to lose 10 pounds this month.

I Won a Prize Today!

Thanks to you guys’ support, I won the Bronze prize today for Viewshound’s cash pool on Thursday! Someone has suggested (ironically) that I make a donation of the extra money that I now have that I might not have before, but I think I’ll put it into savings for now. That way, it can grow and I can help more people later.

Thanks again everyone!

Sliced Bread

A thought just occurred to me, one that I didn’t realize I had previously.

Sliced bread is not an invention. It’s an innovation. You can take something basic, add something to it, and voila. Awesome. That’s what innovation is all about.

Somalia

Hey there. Today I spent time promoting my blog entry about Somalia’s famine crisis, as it just got published over at Viewshound. Tonight I have my first truly solo trivia hosting gig, which should be fantastical. I need to make sure I have all my music together by 8. Gonna work on that and dishes when I get home. Probably toss some more stuff out.

Planning on going to a few anime conventions this year. Still need to find a new roommate as the one I had pretty much lined up and raring to go fell through (couldn’t ever meet up with her).

We’ll see what the future brings.

If A Man Can’t Hold His Own in a Conversation…

Update: Corrected and clarified some things. This post was originally published August 1, 2011.

There’s a guy I am familiar with that’s constantly bemoaning black women being involved in interracial relationships, especially when it comes to being with white guys. He keeps throwing around the fact that he thinks it’s all for money or the privelege of class shift, or that it’s self-hating and he throws around the name Sarah Baartman.

I honestly wonder if this guy is just like the black women who gripe that we can’t find good men.

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Attention: You Are Not a Dime. You Are a Nickle and Some Pennies.

 

I happen to find this woman beautiful. You may not. That's okay.

I really don’t understand – well, I do, but for this rhetorical exercise, I don’t… I don’t understand why some women are always trying to be a hot, model chick, a dime piece, and a boss chicken, when they’re told flat out that they’re not. Their entire world goes down the shitter when reality kicks in, and someone in reality says to them, “Hey, Jane-Down-the-Lane. Sit your ass down”.

Should it matter?

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Thought of the Day

In a room full of men, the most beautiful woman is the only one that’s there.

Being a pretty big deal in isolation of competition makes you subjectively pretty, but not objectively beautiful. All things are judged according to perspective…

Random Things

Hey guys. Sorry for not posting yesterday. I was involved in an accident yesterday where I was hit by a pickup truck in my company’s parking garage while walking. I am fine, docs say there’s no fractures or much going on, but I am home today because I’m honestly still in quite a bit of pain. Will spend the day cleaning up and doing pilates.

Couple things:

  • I want to write a piece about not having your desires sidetracked by your vagina. There’s a lot to it, and a lot of it is from my personal experience.
  • Been getting a lot of Rebekkah’s story written. :) Coming along really nice.
  • I might take the time today to braid my hair up after I start packing some more.
There’s other things that I want to write about but I’m a little out of it right now.

Time

I’ve been gone for a little bit. Probably not as long as I think I’ve been gone, but I guess I should update this.

I’m likely about to be moving here in a bit, so if you don’t see me for awhile that’s what I’m busy doing. I’ve been contemplating scaling back the amount of time I’m electronically connected to the internet, trying to determine how I’ll do that in a number of ways. One of them is possibly not having internet connected at home. Since I was younger I’ve had a bad addiction to the internet, and while I’ve managed to break a lot of it, Facebook was killer for me. Hurt a lot.

What else…?

The Oslo incident is my current mental/social pre-occupation as of late. It’s inspired me to write something in the Destined universe around it, but I’m not sure what as of now. I don’t want to end up cheapening whatever it is that may result. Mostly around the concept of a whisper turning into a murmur and evolving from that.

I really am excited about Destined and the amount of progress that it’s making, though I do worry about the fact that all my focus just seems so fragmented. I’m not sure what I want to spend the bulk of my time with anymore. I just want to do it all which ends up with nothing being complete. Maybe I’ll get back to working a project to completion and then celebrating it somehow.

That would be cool.

My web design has been stalled. I need to finalize that and get to coding since August is just around the corner.

Unfiltered thoughts leak out of my hands like sand through a beach. Is that cliche enough for you?

Anywho. That’s it for now. The stream’s run dry.

Cheers.