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This weekend, I purchased five (yes, 5) completely useless (other than decorative) spheres. Let me see if I can make them sound cooler than they really are…

I have placed them in three aesthetic locations in my living room space. They are situated in a manner to optimize the fashionable impact and adds geometry in an otherwise plain area. The wooden spheres seem to infinetely intertwine into a remarkable circular shape which harkens back to a technology free time. The reflective surface of the metal spheres add drama and make for an excellent catalyst to suddenly blurring transitions that eventually lead to a daydream or flashback.

Other than that, I did more manly things like drag huge amounts of cardboard out to the garbage and try on groomsmen tuxes. I also went to a Padres game and watched a remarkable amount of baseball this weekend. I also implemented Windows Vista and added a powerful Martin Logan subwoofer to increase the SPL of my growing home theater. Nice.

OK. I want fiber optic internet, sent super fast to my house. I currently have cable, which I like. But I have found that, for the same price, I can have it faster, using Verizon FiOS. It’s fiber optic straight to the home. It’s what all the cool tech people have and I want to be cool, too.

So I started researching. Does FiOS reach into Calfornia, even?

Yes they do…but not to my house. No, not to San Diego, even. Rather, they hit up my parent’s neighborhood in the little town of Murrieta. Yes, that’s right. My parent’s Tivo happy household gets their guide sent to their house at the speed of light.

But me and my web development business as well as my online goings-ons?

Nope. 1.5Mbs shared throughout my neighborhood.

Am I getting the HTC Athena Amero Advantage or the new Intel UPMCs? I don’t know yet.

One allows me to carry around my organizer information AND phone (HTC). Of course, if I use it, I would still need to carry around a Bluetooth handsfree kit, as I would like to minimize the amount of times that I slap a huge (think larger than a CD case–you remember buying those, don’t you?) on my face.

Then there’s the UPMC, which I wouldn’t need to sync with Outlook, as it is Outlook because it runs Windows XP/Vista already. Of course, it’s going to be as large. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a built-in phone, so I would still need to carry that around.

Well, after watching this unboxing video–OMG I think I am getting the HTC Advantage.

I have made an update to the “Not So Much…/Things that are Lame” page.

I took off Kevin Federline, frankly, because he has stopped making music (hopefully). I added Snoop Dogg because, frankly, he is sticky-icky-lame.

Read the article that inspired the D, O, double-G to pass throught the gates of suck.

As everyone knows, I have been a Flock proponent since I first found out about it (back around version 0.40).

Read my pro-Flock posts here and here.

However, since Firefox 2.0 came out and many have been moving to Zooomr for their photos, Flock seemed to look and feel much more dated.

I am still holding on to Flock, though my grip is weakening. There is a better RSS aggregator in Google reader (I can jump on it from different computers and it keeps track of the blogs I have read). I don’t use Flickr or PhotoBucket, so the photo portion was never there. The blog editor is too basic.

That being said, a Flock guy (Evan Hamilton) left a comment on my blog.

Hey Spencer,

I think you’re pronouncing us dead a bit too soon. We’re still hard at work here at Flock creating cooler and more stable features. We’re on track for our 0.8 release (which does use the Firefox 2.0 engine)…if you want to take a sneak peak, you can see the daily test builds here: http://tinderbox.flock.com/builds/trunk_sulfur/ (keep in mind that they are test builds and not necessarily stable).

As for Zooomr integration, I don’t think we’ve ever announced a decision regarding integration with them, but they are definitely a service high on our list of considerations.

I hope you’ll swing by and give us another try when we hit 0.8!

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

I have tried out the 0.8 build. I don’t know. I am still forming an opinion. I do like the RSS presentation, though.

I’ll keep you posted.

Leo Kempf shows how you can make some cool looking things from cardboard. He designs modern furniture. He has views of a Frank Gehry inspired wiggle chair.

Check it out here.

*oh man, I hope the people who read that headline understand the urban meaning of it.

Anyway, these past few days have been quite expensive.

Check.

Registry purchases for a coming wedding: Crate & Barrel
Three rings (yes, three) for the wedding: Tiffany’s
Two apparent “Cadillac of sofas” sofas: Jeromes

Yes, apparently I am made of money.

I have been a big fan of Google SMS. Unfortunately, in order to use it, I have to keep with me two phones, as my primary phone does not have text messaging, while the other does.

Now, TellMe allows me to carry just one phone. I can do the whole business searching just by calling them. Sure, it’s just like 411, but the neat thing is for those who don’t want to pay the extra (TellMe is free) or those who like the option of getting a text message with a map afterwards.

But, it also gives you news, weather, stock quotes, and movie showtimes.

Check it out, call up 800-555-TELL.

At the risk of sounding like Luxist, I have to show you my next watch.

You need to see the movie that they have on the website. I wish I could just link straight to it, but, unfortunately, the whole site is Flash and…well, you know how it is.

So go to Hautlence’s website, then navigate to the HLs watch, then click on the movie option. Seriously, I kid you not when I say you need to see this.