iPhone 5s Day 17: Sorry for the wait

So I fell off the wagon for a bit. I do have a good excuse. I went to my first "annual" company meeting. Annual is in quotes because they apparently haven't had one in a couple of years. With my new company, most employees work from home if they aren't at a customer site, so unless you see someone at a client site, the company meeting is the only time you'll meet a lot of the people you email/instant message/talk with. My boss, when I was interviewing, said that this group of people work hard, and play harder. He was not lying. So the weekend was a bit of a blur. I will admit that I came back home with more money than I left with. I won't tell you how that happened because I don't want your opinion of me to change, at least more than it already has. Let's just say I'm lucky.

Before I get into any new phone stuff (which there isn't much), I'll talk about a couple random things. The first was the Bradley/Marquez fight. Was that not the most boring fight ever? All Bradley did was show that Marquez is old as dirt. I could run around the ring for 12 rounds in 3 minute bursts throwing a couple punches and doing a couple taunts...no, you're right, Marquez would probably cause me to take a nap like he did Pacquiao:

Anywho, I'm wondering if Bradley will get a chance with Funny Money Mayweather. Mayweather will murder him, possibly literally, but since Bradley is a master wobbler when hit, it'd be entertaining to watch.

The second thing is Samsung's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear. It has been mentioned on my social media timelines several times, so I had to look it up. You Samsung fans will call me a hater, but this is quite possibly the LAMEST piece of technology ever. The first piece of evidence I have is that every watch ever created that did more than tell time, be an alarm, and/or a stopwatch, has failed. Miserably. Remember calculator watches? Several smartwatches are on the market now and not doing so well. So this Galaxy Gear will show you your incoming phone calls, texts, emails, take crappy resolution pictures, short videos, and a have few apps on a tiny ass screen with some gestures most critics are calling un-intuitive. The only reason I can see for buying this is that you don't want to take that brick of a phone out of your oversized pocket, which if you actually want to do some real interaction or take a real picture or video, you still need your phone, or tablet...or phablet. You heard it here first second third at some point, Samsung should stick to what they do best, which make devices after they have made the components of devices for other manufacturers and then make the actual device better. Key word: after. And yes, they made components for Apple...

So one of the few things to report on the phone is that my wife is extremely happy with hers. "Siri" and she are forming a great relationship, one I'm almost jealous of. I have also tried AirDrop. It was fine. I sent my wife her own contact info so she could set up "Siri" to know who she was. Traded info, and your nasty ass phone didn't have to touch mine. Win-win biatches! And lastly, I tried the new earbuds. I like the ability to control the music player and call "Siri", the mic is fine, but I wish there was more bass in them. They will do fine for my traveling, since the right channel in my favorite Palm Pre earbuds appears to have died. My Sennheiser workout earbuds have fantastic bass, but no mic or music control. I wonder if Sennheiser has headphones with a mic and music control. I'll have to check that out. Lastly, Staples sent me a $40 off $80 coupon. I was going to use it on my second 22" monitor, but then I thought about Lightning cables. The coupon specifically says "no Apple products", but I decided to try it anyhow. So 4 Lightning cables, a item to put me over the $80 mark, and the system takes the coupon! On top of the coupon, I had like $25 in Staples Rewards sitting there, so I got 4 official Lightning cables for $15. That will sort of make up for Georgia Tech sucking like a porn star last Saturday

So hopefully I've caught you up. I'm still recovering from the weekend, so I'm going to go to bed a little early. Good night...

IPhone 5s Day 9: Better late than never

This one is going to be short. I was just about to go to sleep when I remembered I didn't post anything. So here's a quick play by play:

- Went to the Avondale Estates AutumnFest. Had an apple pie with bacon in it. They say everything is better with bacon, and that is no lie. 

- I've been implementing cost cutting measures in my life, one of which was reducing the amount of money I pay Comcast a month. First casualty of this change was I no longer get ESPNU, which had the Tech/Miami game. So I may be revisiting that. But the ScoreCenter app did a good job of keeping me updated, and I'm not sure when they implemented this, but there are now links to video clip of the scoring play. We did lose, but we had The U shitting their pants for most of the game. I'll take that after last week's performance. 

- "Siri" is doing a fantastic job of understanding me. The Google apps, not so much.

- Played with the slo-mo function. Pretty cool as far as gimmicks go, since normal people don't need slo-mo. I recall a Dave Chapelle skit about slo-mo making things better. I'll post a couple videos tomorrow and let you be the judge. No, not that kind of video...

- The Shazam app is pretty damn good at figuring out songs in the worst of environments. Give their engineers a gold star and a lap dance.

- I know he's a A-/B+ level fighter who fought what looked like C level talent, but Miguel Cotto looked quite impressive tonight. As a couple of the commentators mentioned, it would have been interesting to see this relentless left hook to the body Cotto against Funny Money.

- My wife dropped her iPhone 4 on concrete for the second time in its lifetime. This time it was the front, which now matches the back. Looks as bad as it sounds. I may not be selling my 4s after all...

Ok, this was way longer than it was supposed to be. Good night biznatches!