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So I don't know what most of yall think, but I believe that cell phones have just been getting worse and worse over the years

So, the government (chinese that is) broke my old phone, which I liked a lot. It worked well, it synced with my computer, the battery was pretty good, the menus were easy to navigate, all in all, it was nice.

But then it got broken, some how between China and Cali, it just stopped working. It flicks on, goes blue screen and flicks off.


So I moved on, to the Moto Slvr, thinking that since it was years newer than my phone, it would be years more advanced. And it wasn't. It was stupid. It didn't sync properly, it didn't have little things like auto-time and date update, auto key lock, and other things that one would think would be on such a fancy phone. So I researched how to make it better, and I found out. I had to flash the phone, but of course that went wrong, and I bricked it, so now I have a broken slvr.

I moved to my backup phone, which isn't that great, but it has some nice things about it. For example, it has an everything is OK alarm on it. On the front is a green light that constantly flashes (yeah, it's real annoying if you are trying to get to sleep since it is so bright) but if something happens, say you get a text or a call, it flashes red, letting you know that things are not OK, which is great since it doesn't vibrate. And also it deletes outgoing text messages automatically, so I am not reminded of texts that I send out late night.

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BEER WE GO

ENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday. Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters. In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints each. Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: "Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time." His bar at a fans' tent in the city ran out after they drained all 32 of his 50-litre (11 gallon) barrels. Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute.

ahhh the world cup

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I love it how when people can't work something, they think it's broken.

Take today, I was behind this guy at the drive-in ATM. After like 5 minutes, he makes the effort to stick his head out and tell me it is broken and he can't get any cash and blah blah blah.

Well, I take one look at him, 60s, in some kind of crazy non-suv suv and decide he is crazy.

Of course he was and it worked just fine.

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yes, I know, I am lazy

I have this whole giant post about China/Japan, but I have had trouble figuring out what day is what (since I wrote it post trip, 2 weeks kind of becomes a blur, on which day did I go to the Great Wall?)

I'll get on it

I promise

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Ed and I snaked our way up to Darlington to go see the race. Before hand we got in touch with our cousins who lived up there, they were all really nice. After some family history and what not we headed to the race and oh man was it crazy.

First of all I couldn't believe how many teenagers were there, and especially teenage girls, this did not seem like an even that you get all fancied up for then go have little bits of rubber thrown all over you for the next 3 hours. But I guess there is not much to do around here, so whatever the big event is, you go.

Being 6 rows back, the sound was very intense. Talking was near impossible, especially if there was a large pack of cars going by.

The level of drunkenness at this event was amazing. I’d say 4/5 people were beyond drunk and the other 1/5 was drunk via association.

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Back in austin and the tree is still down in my yard. Damn, I was hoping the city would deal with it since it is sticking in the road a bit. Anyone want to come over and clear it for me, GWB, I'm looking at you. I don't want to pay some idiot dude 350 bucks (one estimate from Johnny Montejano) to get rid of it.

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Well, thank god for backup power supplies. Power out, but I've still got internet.

And a tree fell on my garage, damage looks minimal though.

There is a tree on my neighbors house though, thats got to suck.

And there was hail.

Fun day in Austin

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Is it just me or does the new Ford Fusion look a lot like the Cadillac STS?

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Well, my Canon suffered the dreaded E18 error. Being out of warranty and purchased in France (so I doubt I have the proper documentation) I took the time and took it all apart. Amazingly I got it working again, but now the back panel does not function, so until I figure out how to fix that, all photos are taken with the flash. Well, at least it takes photos now.

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Well, after trying Simple PHP Blog and just having all kinds of troubles with it, I switched to Movable Type and like it much better.

Besides some issues with pinging icerocket and indiewire

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It was 99 today and it hit that at 5pm.

That ice cream Cuban is holding in the picture below sure looks tasty.

Luckily the temperature tomorrow will be a temperate 87 for the high.

Sometimes I wonder how people lived in this state before a/c.

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I'm done with it

All you livejournalers can add my new blog as a feed of livejournal from here

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I'll be in Houston this weekend for Easter.

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Well, I'm trying to update my old webpage, make in not suck so much, and since vanity pages pretty much suck the most, I'm thinking of just making it purely a blog, I guess we will see how this goes.

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