A political post:

First, the first political ad officially posted on my blog:

I really try to stay out of political issues. Yes, I have my opinions, and you have yours. Just because they’re not the same doesn’t mean that either of us are equal. I grew up conservative, but gradually turned towards the liberal side of the spectrum. But not all the answers are going to come from either the left or the right. They’re going to come from both sides. But neither the democrats or republicans can seem to work together. And we’re going to lose because of it. The government almost went into default last summer because they couldn’t work together, and that would’ve royally fucked the country. Maybe the politicos should put aside the Party Dogma, and start talking to the person across the aisle. A house divided against itself  cannot stand. And partison politics in DC is in essence dividing the house against itself…

Payton gets the hammer dropped

Well, the No Fun League has dropped the hammer on Sean Payton. Suspended for the entire 2012 season. And Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams have gotten even worse, with an indefinite suspension. Meaning, at season’s end, he still may not have a job. The Saints also lost some draft choices, and were fined 500k. I completely disagree with Roger Godell’s handling of this. He was way too lenient. They both should’ve been shit-canned outright, and they Saints should’ve forfeited games (basically suspending all the players).

In the NHL, they can call ‘attempting to injure’. It results in an automatic ejection from the game and the offending player has to have a long and awkward conversation with the league prior to returning to the game. Perhaps the NFL should consider this rule as well. Or another angle the officials in the NFL could try  is a page from MLS’s book. A yellow card means your first, last, and only warning from the official. A red card would mean you wouldn’t have to worry about your choice of soap in the shower.  Yes Football is in and of itself a violent sport, but there is no place for deliberately attempting to injure your opponent. I guarantee you that if you’re not pulling a 7-8 figure salary, you’d have your ass thrown in jail for assault if you pulled this shit off anywhere else.

In other news, Tim Tebow was traded to the New York Jets. As Jay Leno put it tonight, perhaps we have thrown a Christian to the Lions. I am disappointed. I know have to return the Ram’s blood and tear down the altar. Though I think Denver is taking too big a risk in signing Payton Manning. He’s missed an entire season due to neck problems/surgery, and I’m not sure he’ll be able to perform again. And what if he reinjures his neck?

The Clipboard Jesus is back in San Diego. The Seahawks signed Matt Flynn, formerly the backup to the Green Bay Packers. You may remember the previous Packers backup we signed, Matt Hasselbeck…..

On my way home from work

I get off work, and head to the bus stop, which is on a major arterial. While I'm waiting, a car stops, and asks me for help (I'm thinking they want directions), but no, they're panhandling me. *From* their car. Sorry guys, bit of you can afford a car, then you should be able to afford gas. If you can't, then don't panhandle the pedestrians. Join them and walk...

I saw this over 20 years ago….

I just realized that there is one villian that James T. Kirk couldn’t defeat: Damon Wayans…

Yes, it is dated. In Living Color ran this sketch years before George Takei came out of the closet…

Spring is around the corner…

Ok, the calendar says spring is eminent. But the weather that we’ve been having of late has been more reminiscent of January/February/Winter. I got off work on Sunday, and on the way to the bus stop, saw snow coming down. It wasn’t sticking, but it was snowing. Tuesday, on my way to work I noticed that it had snowed, and it stuck until afternoon. Owing to Pierce Transit being run by a bunch of incompetent clods, when I work late, I have to walk an extended distance to catch a bus home. Fortunately, one of my co-workers has a car and she’s been more than generous in giving me a ride home when the weather turns ugly.

My boss is due almost anytime know.

So my already erratic schedule is shot to hell. But, you can only be pregnant so many times, so I’m not going to complain….

Yes, I know have’ve been slacking off in posting. But other things are coming up that need my attention. And I’ve got Facebook, too. But I’m not going to give on my internet soapbox. Then again, there’s so much I want to say, but I hold my tongue because this is a public blog, and it’ll come back to haunt me. I’m no fool. I’ve seen what’s happened to Rush Limbaugh (although I will say that I didn’t need to see the current controversy to know he’s a drug-addicted, misogynistic bigot)….

And now about my new phone…

With my last post about T-Mobile, I said I went to Sprint. When I left the T-Mobile store Saturday after returning my HTC Sensation, I walked right across the mall concourse to the Sprint Store and started asking question. I knew Phil wanted an iPhone, and I had an idea about what kink of phone I wanted. The clerk ran my credit, set my account up, and said that I was pre-approved for up to 5 lines without a security deposit (a needless redundancy since I only need two). anyway, I didn’t get them then since I had to settle a few affairs. After being told how much the phones were and that I was preapproved, my brother texted back that he could pay for them himself.

So next Wednesday, we were in the Sprint store in the South Hill Mall in Pukeallup, picking out phones. I was going to get an EVO 4G, mainly because of it’s similarity to my HD2 (I knew that there were Energy ROMs being for it, and that there was a2sd support for it). But they didn’t have any in stock (it’s actually been discontinued/in the process of being discoe’ed). So I went with the EVO 3D. I’m glad I did. With the announced release of HTC’s ‘One’ series, it may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer anymore, but it’s still got what counts. When it comes to internal phone memory and processor, it’s essentially a Sensation, so there’s no real surprise there. Even though it had a gB available to the user, I can still run out of space really quick, but liberal use of apps2sd attenuates that problem. Compared to what I was running, it just zips along. Even a reboot after wiping the Dalvik cache take less time than it did for my HD2 to do a normal reboot (reboot after wiping the Dalvik cache took over 30 minutes on my HD2). Add that to the one gigabyte of RAM, and it has more power than my first computer (which was capable of running windows XP).

So I get my phone, and I find I have to do the official HTC unlocking in order to root it (what’s the point in getting Android if I can’t root it?). It took a few tries (ended up having to download the RUU and reinstalling it in order to get it to unlock). For about 3 days, I just ran the stock ROM. Out of the box, it runs Gingerbread on Sense 3.0 (just like the Sensation). Saturday, I discovered that the stock ROM is compatible with UOT kitchen, so I can change the icon sets (mainly I wanted to change the battery indicator). Sunday night, I finally worked up the courage to wipe it and flash a custom ROM (a difference from when I had the Sensation. With that phone, I had the custom ROM downloaded, tweaked and ready to flash before I bought it). I finally found a Sense 3.5 ROM and downloaded it Sunday. It wasn’t an Energy ROM (he doesn’t cook for the EVO 3D), but I gave it try. Installed all of my apps and moved into it Monday, and it crashed and burned on me Tuesday on my way to work. So Tuesday when I came home from work, I decided to try my hand at a Frankenstein ROM. So this time, I took a few elements from the Energy ROMs that I’ve downloaded from my phones and cooked them into my ROM. And I’m pretty impressed with it.

But there was drawback: space. My memory card had a second, hidden partition for a2sd (which I used on my HD2). None of the a2sd scripts I used would work on this phone. Then I saw one the on of the xda fora someone mention link2sd. It’s free and available on the market. Installed it, and it recognized my ext4 partition. So I can install all my 300+ apps on a phone that has the horsepower to run them. The main drawback to having your apps installed on your sd card is that you just pull your sd card (with windows mobile, the sd card was hot pluggable). But the again, I have to pull the battery out to get to the memory card on this phone.

All in all, I think I’m going to enjoy this phone. And there’s a forthcoming upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich due shortly, too (there are a few ice cream sandwich builds out there, but I’ll wait for the official HTC one first). Did I mention that my brother paid for this? And he willingly surrendered his man-card?