Great Scott!!
Back in elementary school after Back to the Future II came out, I may have told everyone that I built one at my house. I had the diagrams and everything. Needless to say, when my friend said he also built one I asked me to show us HIS drawings. That’s right…he didn’t have any.
FTW.
So, apparently an artist actually made a REAL hoverboard…and it’s everything that after watching Marty fly by the clocktower – I thought it would be..I mean it’s like the one I made.
Exit Quote – Hoverboard still don’t work on water.
Reminder: NJ Gov. Chris Christie is the Man
Watching him never really gets old to me. Like a shiny object in a sea of gray colored two-faced politicians.
It’s weird seeing a government employee (who makes 85k per year allegedly – see link above) getting told the same thing the private sector gets told.
Update: Oh yeah, and this. NJ Budget Freeze Worked, Doesn’t Need to Raise Taxes.
Did Google Android Just KO Apple’s iPhone?
Based on the iPhone 4.0 sneak preview and yesterday’s Google Android 2.2 demo, I for the first time want to have a full cover on my iPhone to not let people know I don’t have a Droid. Time will tell if this stands, but right now it’s looking like Android 1, iPhone 0.
It boggles my mind since the iPhone came out first, controls its own hardware, and has such a large and vocal user base. Android sputtered out of the gate, and has to deal with wildly different hardware specs and had a lot of catching up to do.
Is it the iPhone’s Kryptonite?
So exactly why should you be looking at Droid phones when the iPhone 4.0 is just around the corner? From Gizmodo on yesterday’s announcement (excerpts). It’s all about the Android 2.2 software, also known as Froyo.
- Froyo lets you turn your phone into a hotspot—which means it can be your wireless internet for your wi-fi devices, including friends around you, your iPad, or even your laptop.
- 5X faster processing than the previous version of Android (2.1..what’s on phones now) and the fastest mobile web browser in existence. iPhone is lucky to double their speed with each new release.
- it runs Flash. Whether or not it runs it well is TBD (supposedly pretty decent) but Apple has decided the internet will be filled with little question mark boxes. (as Google put it “We discovered something cool: It’s called the internet.”)
- Downloading music or apps on your computer, then synching with a cable. Nope. Over the Air (OTA) synching to your phone. Want long time.
- A variety of other tweaks and fixes meshing your browser and other native apps (like camera) and more usability settings, etc.
- If you have a Droid phone (at least most newer ones) you’ll just upgrade and get all these features in a few weeks or a few months.
- full details at Gizmodo. also check out Google is Leapfrogging Apple
Hey, iPhone’s got multitasking, wallpaper, and folders coming. Oh wait, those were in Google’s last version already.
Sigh. We’ll see. I hope all those new features brick everyone’s phone 
About That Arizona Immigration Bill
A lot of utter nonsense all over the place on both sides, hand wringing, feigned outrage, political posturing (since it’s popular with 70% of citizens a lot of bandwagon jumpers).
But not a whole lot of discussion that makes any logical sense. But then I saw this. It deals with Mexico’s president, who came here and trashed the Arizona law as violating human rights (try to wrap your head around HIM saying THAT without it imploding) but also sums up the entire issue pretty neatly. Check out the YouTube video below.
Click here for commentary and transcripts.
Video: The Only Man I Fantasize About
..besides Brad Pitt.
Of all the reasons Obama has disappointed me, the main one is that he’d change the tone in Washington and be straight with the people and have an “open” administration. Even if I disagree with someone’s policies, I respect those who are consistent and say what they mean and don’t pander.
And even if I agree with a politician, if they are pandering to a base or change their views to match the wind, I am against them. And that’s pretty much all we’ve had for years.
Then there’s NJ Governor Chris Christie (video at the bottom). This man blows my mind. So many hopefuls end up being corrupted or used our hope against us..if I could design an actual decent politician, this would be him. He’s in a super-liberal state, somehow got elected, and has hammered the heck out of the unions and big government in a place that would be like hammering Nascar in South Carolina.
>>From today, NJ Gov. Sets the Tone for US
This is just the most recent of countless clips I have sat jaw-dropped at how straight-forward and sticking to his guns this guy is. His approval ratings have been hurt since no one receiving government money – in a state where people are swimming in it want to give it back – trash him at every turn for asking them to live like the rest of us.
Yet he still confronts them…because in a bankrupt state where the public sector grows with salary raises as the private sector begs for help with basic necessities…it’s the right thing to do. And it doesn’t help him at all doing the right thing.
The attacks from the left and the comfortable children of the nanny state are devastating. Only a person true to their convictions could keep going with purpose.
Christie 2012 by the way. (via HotAir blog)
| Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his ‘confrontational tone’ |
Convenience Store Hero Restores My Faith
Not too long back a homeless man helped a woman who was being attacked, and was stabbed. Over 2 dozen people walked by and didn’t help him. He ended up dying. It was all caught on tape. There have been numerous versions of this lately caught on tape and it is shocking. (See video at the bottom of the post).
Maybe it was always that way we just didn’t have YouTube. Or maybe we’re too absorbed in our cell phones and our own lives to bother. Maybe big government has taught us we don’t even need to help ourselves, let alone know how to help someone else. Or maybe we’re desensitized to real violence from the movies.
Whatever it is, this video below of a man who uses a beer bottle to thwart a would-be robber with a gun makes me feel a bit better. The report below says it all. Best wishes to him in recovery.
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Simon Cowell, the Next American Idol?
Was a bit surprised by this piece over in the Sun in the UK…Simon Cowell steps out behind the judging table and dishes on the choice for Prime Minister of Britain. The irony that our political elections have become something of an American Idol themselves isn’t lost on me.
But what he says surprised me. Though not much of an Idol fan myself, his commentary on the British political system (much akin to where ours is now) is as straight forward as his Idol tirades. And hopefully it will see some of the hacks kicked off the political stage as well.
Here are a few excerpts from the article
“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.”
“One is that the majority of our wealth of talented people aren’t being given the chance they need to grow and bloom at the moment. And two, the country has too many social problems – in particular knife crime and a collapse in family values.”
“Right now it takes twice as long to start a business in the UK as it does in the USA. I was recently told that around 40,000 new regulations have been introduced since 1998 – that’s 14 every working day.
Then we were ranked 4th in world for least burdensome regulation. Now we are 86th. The problem with this tinkering is the State can stifle and frustrate ambition, rather than encourage entrepreneurs, which is crazy.”
And I think this is down to a breakdown of rules. When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued.
There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum’s house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.
Is Technology Leaving Us Passed By?
One of my favorite gadget sites, Gizmodo, featured a story from the wife of one of the writers about how technology is changing so fast and furious we’ve completely lost some important ways we used to communicate in only a few years — and today’s generation will never have known them.
Love letters, long conversations, labeling the white paper in cassette tapes, having to wait for something to rewind, listening to whole albums instead of singles, physically visiting the library for research….the list is endless and once technology leaves, it takes everything with it for something else — better?
Her name is Anna Jane—author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
I think about this type of thing all the time, the report below is very interesting and her recent book looks like it might be worth picking up.
Not reading on the iPad, physically picking it up.
Obama the Agitator
Though Obama warns heavily about anti-government rhetoric that could incite violent protests (right wingers) the only violent protests we’ve seen in the past year are fueled by his own rhetoric.
