News is a local company picked these guys up.

So what if Redmond has their cute Photosynth. This looks a lot more useful right now in digital media applications.

Rick Bayless, I love you.

Rick,

Once again, you've turned my kitchen into something that'll take me a solid hour to clean. You sweet tomatillo lovin' man you! Our time has been short, I've only known you months, but I feel that I would be able to spend the rest of my life with you. Keep that tank top on mister, DIG ME A FIRE PIT! Tonight after seeing Salsa and Tips on my local PBS afflilate you had an interesting salsa verde with chipotle chilies. You mixed this salsa up and decided that some shirmp, onions, and a nice hot skillet would be a good pairing with this salsa.

You. Were. Right.

Though I didn't have any shrimp I did have some chicken thighs. So I grilled and shredded them, made the salsa, and then heated the shredded chicken and salsa in a skillet with some onions that I sweated. Goodness. These tacos were the yum, that is for sure.

Well, off to clean the kitchen. Don't worry Rick, I forgive you.

- Vincent

Pictures!

The video parade continues...

This might be a little NSFW (audio has dirty words). So either keep it down or check it out at home because th1z 1z t3h p\\'nZ0r.

Closer to 30 than 20, and I still have 10 toe nails!

Good news!

My 26th birthday went off without a hitch. Waking up as my first full day as a 26 year old did not include going to a emergency clinic to make sure I didn't need an embedded toe-nail surgically removed.

Phew, what a relief right?

It gets better from there...

1) I got six bottles of wonderful wine.
2) A chef comped me a yummy dinner.
3) I was not bleeding in the morning (extra bonus).
4) My weekend post-birthday was spent in a wonder corner in north-central Washington. There was no sounds, no traffic, planes, people, etc. My time was spent drinking, making friends, and doing stuff I've never done (changing my break pads, being a grease monkey). Okay, so I totally understand that changing break pads is really nothing special, let's remind ourselves that some important things I take into consideration like matching my socks with my shirt. Nuff said.
5) I am on vacation for another week and a half or so, and I have a GOAL!

I would like to draft ANYONE to help me on compleating a full deck of Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle caps for a 52 card deck. For those of you who don't know here is what I am talking about.



That's right, each bottle of PBR has a "money card" on it! And I want to play some Go Fish by Auguest 30th. 2007.

So, anyone who wants to donate their time please send all PBR bottle caps to:

C/O PBR Go Fish 2007
905 1/2 20th Ave S
Seattle, Wa 98144

If I am able to complete a full deck I promise to post some pictures of some hardcore Go Fish games at my kitchen table. That should be enough to motivate you, and heck, there is beer involved.

Thanks in advance,

Vincent

I'm a sap.

Since I am on the subject.

I still love reading the rants of Maddox.

Anyone need another iPhone Review?

How about Marketing for Jackasses?

Have a good night.

Music: Architecture in Helsinki
Movies(or Television): Extras
Sites: XKCD

Are consumers being protected?

1) All cell phones in North America(barring pre-paid devices, and possibly Mexico has something else going on but I doubt it) are sold on a subsided business model.

2) The iPhone is not capable of using "any network". For this to be possible it would need to have radio chipsets for CDMA, UMTS/W-CDMA, iDEN, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, AMPS, etc. The Verizon lawyer is just plain lying. I mean well, it would be possible but the device would be an inch thicker, at least 10 ounces heavier, oh and it would cost more. It's the iPhone, not the iBrick.

2a) I suppose that if there was a Global System for Mobile Communication that everyone (government, corporation, etc) decided to use we would not have this problem. We decided (That's the carriers based in America... Public and privately funded companies) to use whatever technology seemed to do the job right at the time. Planning was poor and the fractured networks in the United States will continue to hinder the sort of "free movement" that we should have. Hey, if you want to move your phone to another carrier whenever you want move to Europe. They got it right the first time.

2b) It's true that tear down report from iSuppli shows that Apple/AT&T (who knows how they divide device profit) make a decent profit from the iPhone. Here's the thing. Apple is not Motorola or Nokia, they are not "married" to making profit off their phones that will be sold at a lost like most if not all except for the iPhone and PrePaid cellular phones are. They were in the position to go to a carrier and say "we're going to sell you this device at 3% below retail price. We make the cash of of the hardware and you're lucky we picked you since everyone and their Denali driving mother will want one of these motherfuckers.

3) The jackass from Columbia law is making a flawed point using televisions as a compairision. The television is just too old to be used as a good example for comparison to a cellular phone. If we decided to use something like a Direct TV or Dish Network cable box (which has a contract) it'd be a lot harder for him to prove that what AT&T is doing should be considered wrong.

4) Who wants the open spectrum? Oh.. A software company? This already should be drawing a few more questions as they're profit model is not built into investing billions in building a network and then pulling a profit from subscribers, contracts, etc. Nope, not these hippies. They're platform agnostic. :P

I'm all about more consumer rights and less corporate welfare and all that bullshit. Though I don't like to think that we're seeing large companies pulling the wool over our already naive Congress.