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Apple iPhone 4S Specs are Disappointing Times a Million

October 4, 2011 2 comments

Only 8 megapixels on the new camera? Ugh, that’s like only 60% more pixels than the last iPhone.

Only 14.4 megabits per second? More like will take infinity to download forever.

Dual-core processor? Schmuel-core processor. If my hardware doesn’t instantly give me a hard-on and make me orgasm with 10 seconds or less, I call bullshit.

iCloud will help me sync all my files from my computer to my wireless device?  Yeah, too bad it has a stupid name.

I mean, all I wanted an AI program that would anticipate my every want and need. That could comfort me when I’m ill-eased, that could support my decisions without being overbearing, that could whisper sweet nothings into my ear and make me feel like I’m still worth something to somebody even when I get fat. But I all I got was Siri, a voice-controlled, language-deciphering virtual assistant that is essentially a verbal Google that will open the appropriate applications for you. But the program is still in Beta, so it’s totally useless.

Sure, the phone is now available on Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, but what about all those other two carrier networks? It is my God-given right to be able choose a crappy service provider because I am a tax-paying American. Bless me.

When will my phone cook my dinner, pick my kids up after school, and simultaneously shiatsu massage my feet and nipples? For $200, why isn’t Barack Obama personally serving this phone to me on a white plush pillow, with golden tassels, alongside all his broken hopes and dreams?

Pox and boils upon your stocks, Apple! May your contracts be cancelled. May your warehouses burn. May Steve Jobs get canc…

Oh wait. Awkward.

Pre-ordering for the iPhone 4S begins online October 7.  It will available in stores on October 14, starting at $199.

[10/05 edit:

Steve Jobs passed away today from pancreatic cancer today at the age of 56.  While the tasteless joke made previously will not be removed due to Clantily Scad’s commitment to anti-politically correct humor and satire, I would like to take a serious moment to tip my blogger hat to Job’s tenacious leadership for remaining CEO of Apple as long as he did and his countless contributions to technological development.]

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I wasted my holiday weekend with Facebook’s Sims Social

September 5, 2011 2 comments

Happy Labor Day!  I celebrated the economic and social contributions of workers everywhere by playing Facebook games including the Words for Friends (generic Scrabble) and Sims Social.

Let me tell you something about the Sims on Facebook.  It’s terrible!  It’s technically buggy, functionally limited, they are constantly harassing to spend real money to buy Sim Money, and I can’t stop playing.  But you can grow plants!  Which I guess makes it kinda like Farmville except you need to pee more.  I’m not sure what happens if you sell your toilet and don’t let your Sim pee.  Maybe it’ll die.  I don’t know.

Sims Social tag line is “Build a  home. Build a relationship. Build a life.”  Because we’re all incapable of doing that in the real world.

This is Reginald Omar Klein.

He’s a Villain and probably a hipster.  He’s dating Tina, but there’s a technical error that’s preventing Reginald and Tina to go from “Dating” to “Going Steady.”

Will Reginald ever get laid?  Will he find 3 friends to help him build another room to his insanely tiny house? Will his pumpkins ever not wither and die?  Find out next time on… no, this probably not worth blogging about ever again.

Follow-up post: How a Facebook Game Ate my Life

My Top 10 Favorite Nerdy Pick Up lines

August 2, 2011 3 comments

Nerdy Pick Up Lines

From Biology to Music to Math, here are my all-time favorite pick up lines for geeks and nerds.

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10. If I were an enzyme, I’d be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes.

9.  I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.

8.  I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?

7. Baby, I’ll treat you like my homework — I’ll slam you on the table and do you all night long.

6. I’m a fermata… hold me.

5. You know, it’s not the length of the vector that counts, it’s how you apply the force.

4. If I was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?

3. I wish I was an ion so I could bond with you.

2. Our love is like dividing by zero… you cannot define it.

1.   And my favorite nerdy pick up line of all time…

Roses are #FF0000

Violets are #0000FF

All my base are belong to you