It’s Been a Long Time Since I Danced in my Boxers
Sometimes you just need to shake the dust off your feet, strip down, and dance.
Link to video if you can’t see it embedded above.
Filed under Dancing in Boxers, Music, Video | Comments (36)The Menacing Eye Joins Me Tonight
Look! It’s the heavily pregnant, yet still menacing eye of Faiqa! Don’t you just want to not piss her off? Maybe hire some masseuses to constantly rub her feet? Or bring her gourmet chocolates to keep her from going postal on your ass?
Well, if you can’t get enough Faiqa – and who amongst us can? – she is my guest tonight on SecondHand Radio! That’s right, a full hour of gleeful conversation, where we can hear about how she survived the rugged wilderness without any Internet for FOUR DAYS!
I hope you’ll join us tonight for lots of fun. There’s a chatroom available during the show and everyone is welcome to call in to talk to Faiqa and I. Hopefully, everyone is free of technical difficulties tonight.
Showtime: 10:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific.
Call-In Number: 724-444-7444, Call ID 23738
Faiqa’s blog: Native Born
Filed under 2HRadio | Comments (2)Fun iPhone Apps to Pass the Time
A few friends on Twitter have mentioned recently getting iPhones and iPod Touches. Thought I’d review a few of the apps I use, most of them for entertainment.
1. iMob Online. This is a FREE game, similar to Mafia Wars on Facebook (FREE app here). You start out as a lowly mobber and slowly build your mob by performing missions and buying properties that yield hourly incomes. I spend way too much time on this game.
Add me, my iMob family code is 144-886-434. My name is Don Karlione.
2. Mafia Live. On sale right now for 99 cents. Same game, basically, with a different name. Yeah, I’m hooked on two of these games. Build your mob, buy new weapons and vehicles, etc. etc.
My Mafia Live family code is 194-000-323. Again, name is Don Karlione.
3. MMS Buddy. $4.99. Yes, MMS is coming to the iPhone this summer in OS 3.0, but for now there’s not a lot you can do with those occasional MMS messages sent to your phone. Unless you use MMS Buddy.
Basically, you look in your text messages, scroll til you find the MMS message with username and password. Then do a screen capture of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Load MMS Buddy, have it fetch the screen cap, it’ll run character recognition on the screen cap – pretty accurately – then fetch the MMS message.
I don’t get MMS very often, but this app is invaluable if you get any at all.
4. Tweetie. $2.99. My favorite Twitter app by far.
Streamlined interface, very intuitive. Click the TWEETS button on bottom, go to a window full of all of your followers. Click REPLIES, see all of the Tweets that @ your name. Click MESSAGES for your direct messages. FAVORITES, obviously show you your favorites.
Then there are other features in the MORE tab. My favorite allows you to search for Twitterers that are close by you.
Runner-up Twitter app, and FREE: TwitterFon
UPDATE (January, 2010):
These days, my number 1 Twitter app is Twittelator Pro.
Close 2nd is Tweetdeck.
5. Zombieville USA. $1.99 for the full version. FREE lite version here.
Nothing more than a very fun shoot-em-up. You against the zombies that pop up out of the ground and lurch in your brainy direction.
Side-scroller where you walk to the right, occasionally going inside houses for money and bullets, all the while blasting zombies brains all over the pavement.
Try it out for free on the Lite version, which gives you a feel for the game with one level. The full game gives you more than 15 different weapons to choose from, multiple zombie types, and different difficulty levels.
UPDATE (January, 2010): There’s a brand new update to Zombieville and it adds a slew of new characters you can play as. This game is still on my iPhone’s home page. Will review again soon, more in depth.
6. Distant Shore. 99 cents.
Purely pointless app that is kind of hard to describe. Most of what you do in this app is “walk the beach shore,” looking for shells and bottles. Collect 5 shells and get yourself an empty bottle. The bottles you find on the shore contain messages to read.
You can read the messages you find, reply to them, and then toss the bottle back into the ocean for them to find on THEIR beach. Use empty bottles to pen messages and then throw the bottle into the water for some random stranger to find on their beach.
And that’s pretty much it. Think of it as Twitter, except that instead of throwing out messages to people following you, you’re throwing out random messages to random strangers.
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