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Ubuntu Touch, or a Waste of a Perfectly Good Phone

Phonebuntu

So Ubuntu released their latest version, Sloppy Salpinx or something to that effect. It’s a big deal because it’s also the first stable version for the phone. Right now they only support the Nexus 4 and the Galaxy Nexus…which is…

When T-Mobile Give You Lemons, Make Aionade

So I just switched Aimee and her Nexus 4 from T-Mobile prepaid at 70 a month to AT&T’s new Aio Wireless plan with unlimited talk/text and 2GB of high speed data for $55 a month, taxes included. Microsim arrived in two days, number…

The World Will Beat a Path to Your Door

One of those things that I’m always looking for is a better media streamer. I need Netflix. Amazon Prime is a plus. Local streaming is a necessity, and for that I use Plex and PlayOn running on my media server in my…

Mama Said Mama Said

There’s a lot of stress lately. Tons of it. There is so much going on, and so much to do, and… I just only ever want things to be easy, but it never seems to go that way. House, mortgages,…

Passing it On

I disappeared into playoff hockey for the last few weeks. When the Rangers are playing, it’s unavoidable. It’s better when the other local teams aren’t in it, not counting the Islanders. It’s tough to consider them local. That’s to say…

Social Interaction

  So we’re here at the park and the boys are playing with a pair of kids about Mikey’s age. There’s a lot in common: they want to play pirates together and run around like asylum escapees. Their moms, however…if…

Milestones

So I’ve slept in. Which is curious because by 8AM the boys are usually “starrrrving” let alone 9. I come down the steps and they’re both munching on waffles. “Joey made the waffles himself daddy!” “YEAH! I even let dem…

Brotherly Love: What is this “Co-op” Crap?

Yes, they're running into a ... cat-thing

So Mommy and the baby are in transit to Colorado via Minneapolis and I’m home from work all week with the boys. They’re already huge fans of Castle Crashers, and a few weeks ago Mikey and I had noticed The…

A Short List of Reasons I Drink

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my nearly six years of parenting, it’s that eventually you have to have a survival mechanism of some sort. An outlet, if you will. In this case, my most common outlet is drinking.…