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| And? Your Point Is? |
 It's always amazing to read the news online or watch the news on TV, especially when it's a "slow news day." Because slow news day is a synonym apparently with make up irrelevant crap and call it news.
You all know what I mean, right? TV news does those humanitarian puff pieces that they call news but really are just fabrications -- take some little orphan kid for a day on the town while interviewing them on why they're so awesome and should be adopted; show some three-legged dog that got rescued from Michael Vick's compatriots to hustle money out of you for PETA, the ASPCA, and your local animal shelters; talk about what celebrity got spotted at what grocery store chain in what neighborhood with whom; and scare you into believing that just about everything in the world can cause cancer (or, conversely, try to convince you that random things can cure or prevent cancer).
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| 25 Jul 2010 - 21:00 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Burning Down the House! |
 No, this has nothing to do with the song. Rather, this is a discussion of my decision to improvise when it came to cooking dinner, almost burning down the kitchen in the process.
Yesterday, there were plans to do a background barbeque at a friends' place, and he and I stopped to grab some fish to do a fish grill. No one but the two of us actually bothered to show, so I ended up taking home two leftover, uncooked salmon filets. (We'd filled up on some awesome hummus and grilled ahi tuna steaks, so we didn't feel the need to have the salmon too.)
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| 17 Jul 2010 - 20:09 by David Schwartzstein |
General Blogging
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| Review: Apple iOS 4.0 |
 Before we get into it, let me state one thing: This is not a review of the new Apple iPhone 4. I don't have one. I don't need one. I'm not even sure that I want one. Honestly, the iPhone 3GS I have is so great, I don't see a reason to be in a rush to upgrade. The only feature the new hardware has that sounds somewhat appealing to me versus the 3GS is to have a flash on the camera. I honestly can't believe it's taken Apple four revisions to put that on there, but I digress.
iOS 4.0. The new operating system for iPhone. Here are my observations about it.
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| 24 Jun 2010 - 19:43 by David Schwartzstein |
Technology Reviews
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| Review: IOGear 2.4GHz Multimedia Keyboard (GKM561R) |
Just over a week ago, I purchased this nifty gadget to use along with my desktop computer that I'd hooked up to my television to aid me in using the computer more effectively for my living room entertainment. (Short version: remote control) See, I had a wireless keyboard and mouse combo from Microsoft, but the range was so sort that it sometimes would skip a beat - using a mouse on a couch is awkward enough, but when it's got weak signal, it's near impossible.
Enter the GKM561R.
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| 24 Jun 2010 - 18:55 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Weird dream... |
I don't normally have vivid dreams that I remember when I wake up. So a little surprising, figured I'd write it down in my blog. I honestly have no idea what it means.
So for some reason I'm working in the Montreal office, which for contextual purposes takes up some floors in a huge skyscraper in the middle of town, but all the people around are co-workers that I work with today in Los Angeles except for a few faces I'd met in Montreal. I see two of my friends running across the sales floor, literally running, and they duck into a stairwell. I'm curious why they're running, so I go into the stairwell and hear them above me. I go to the middle landing, but they notice me and stop talking, apparently they just wanted to speak in private. I apologize for interrupting and I start going down the stairs. For some reason when I open the door to get back to work, the fire alarm starts going off. Not sure if it's a coincidence or I caused it, but I go through the door to the elevators and I'm frantically hitting the down button but the elevator won't work. So I go back to the stairwell and litterally start running down til I get to the ground floor and outside onto the street, hearing an announcement at some point how they believe it to be a false alarm but they'll have to evacuate anyway. I start walking around the building as people are filing out of the building, looking to see if I can catch any of my coworkers. I see one of them sitting on a bench outside, alone, and I sit down next to him. He tells me that most people he knows are going home because it's going to take too long to get all those people back into the building. I tell him that I think it's my fault the alarm went off, and he tells me that if it is people should thank me, because there are World Cup games on that people want to watch. And we get up and go walking to find a bar. And that's when I wake up.
I really, really have no idea what this means...
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| 13 Jun 2010 - 07:35 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Fun Times on Friday Night |
 Very fun time last night going out with friends to do karaoke at a Mexican restaraunt while drinking Dos Equis (I don't always drink beer, but when I do...) and tequila shots. I really should do the karaoke thing more often. It's always a blast, even if I'm not the best singer in the world. There's something just extremely fun about getting a group together and belting out classics like Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Don't Stop Believin' by Journey, and Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.
We even saw some girl sing there that was absolutely incredible. Apparently she'd previously been on American Idol - wasn't very surprising to find that out, and she definitely wasn't on because she's like William Hung.
Fun times, definitely have to do it again soon. Karaoke is such a cheap yet fun thing to do. Everyone should do it more.
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| 12 Jun 2010 - 16:27 by David Schwartzstein |
Fun Times With Friends
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| Ten Days To Iron Maiden! |
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| 9 Jun 2010 - 23:05 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Welcome to Mannywood |
 Today's been a really good day. It was awesome to keep a good day going at the end fo the day with being invited to a Dodgers game. I hadn't been to a game at Dodger Stadium for the season thusfar. I have been to one baseball game earlier in the season, at Wrigley Field when I was in Chicago.
I didn't have time to go home before the game to change, so I ran quickly over to the store to get some more comfortable clothes to wear. I'd originally just thought to grab a pair of shorts, but I figured when in Rome and picked up a Dodgers shirt, with Manny Ramirez' name and number 99 on the back. I guess that makes me officially a Los Angelean, a resident of Dodgertown in the foothills of Mannywood.
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| 7 Jun 2010 - 23:36 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Random List of Cancelled Television Shows I Miss |
 It's time for a list of random television shows which I miss that got cancelled before their time. Why? Because I'm killing time before the Laker game. So, let's go for it!
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| 6 Jun 2010 - 15:08 by David Schwartzstein |
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| Is it time to get uncabled? |
Since I'm barely using my home desktop computer at all these days, opting instead to use my notebook for practically everything, I decided to bring the desktop out into the living room and hook it up to the television. I know a few friends that have totally gotten rid of cable or satellite, and watch their television fix entirely through the internet. Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Youtube, and Bittorrent all combine to serve up the same content and more, after all.
Sometimes adapting to change is tough, though -- I stayed recently while on a trip at a residence that had done the same thing, and I was glad to have my Sling Box setup at home ready for me to log into to access my home cable and DVR. After all, such events as the 200th episode of South Park and the lead-up to the finale of 24 weren't things I wanted to miss, and watching kept me out of trouble at night and helped me unwind before sleep.
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| 6 Jun 2010 - 11:49 by David Schwartzstein |
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I love going to concerts. Sadly, I don't go too often though. So when I found out that Iron Maiden -- favorite band of all time -- is going to be playing in San Bernardino, I knew I had to get tickets.