No Steve Jobs, You Did Not Re-Invent the World by Making a Fat iPod

http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad

And here are 8 very good reasons why.

How can he even have the nerve to say that he's made a grand "invention"? All he did was take an iPod and make it bigger. That's it. This thing that's supposed to compete with netbooks, which for anyone who doesn't know are very small laptops, and it doesn't even have a browser that can use flash. So if you don't really understand the importance of that let me put it to you this way.. NO. YOUTUBE. There also wouldn't be a lot, if any, online games since most of those use flash. No effects on websites, especially effects you see used in sites hosted on www.freewebs.com (which is a very good way to have your own website if you've ever wanted your own). Some pictures wouldn't show up either. Oh and imagine this.. Imagine if you had a computer. It was sleek and stylish (which is what the iPad claims it is but I'm not really seeing it), decently fast but nothing to write home about, it cost you a hell of a lot of money.. And you couldn't download anything that doesn't come from an Apple brand store. That's right. The ONLY things you can put on your iPad (easily) are things that come from iTunes, the App Store, or the iBook store. Of course I'm sure there are some hackers who are going to figure out how to jail break the thing, but for an average every day user that's a huge hassle.

Really Steve? Really now? THIS is your innovation for the world? You took something we already had and made it bigger than it originally was? Well let me tell you something, it didn't work for the Kindle and it's certainly not going to work for the iPad. The only thing you've accomplished is selling some other stupid thing to apple fanboys and showing what an idiot you are. Obviously you're losing your touch.

Stay Frosty.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

Valentine's day 2009. I was actually excited for it this year. Every other year it was just another passing day, occasionally it was celebrated by getting cards from friends or my mom making a special dinner. But after 5th grade I didn't really get or give too any cards or any candy, and I always felt that the dinner made in my home was for my father while I just happened to eat there. I'd always get candy from my parents, but usually I got the small 5 chocolate boxes while they exchanged the large 50 dollar boxes with each other. Again I was just a second thought. But this year was different. This year I actually had a Valentine of my own. Someone who I could give a meaningful gift to. Who I could make special plans and exchange expensive boxes of chocolate with. I'd been thinking about Valentine's Day for a little while now, as most people with a significant other do. Around the holidays it was just a fleeting thought, but after the New Year I started seriously thinking about that day. What could I do? Would they like it? Is it too cliche'? Everyone knows that the first Valentine's Day you're dating someone is a big deal. It's almost as big as a first date or a first kiss, plus you have the added pressure of all the stores trying to shove their sugary, pink, heart filled wears down your throat or into your shopping cart. You also have to try to decide to do or get something that strikes a fine balance of not freaking the other person out (if you've only been dating someone for a little while you don't want to go about doing something big) while being just thoughtful enough. No one likes to feel short changed, especially on a holiday. But all was not to go as planned for my own holiday. Sometime in early February they dropped the news. My parents wanted to spend the weekend of Valentine's Day in Vermont. And since there was no one for me to stay with I had to go too. I had to spend my first "big" Valentine's Day away from my girlfriend. Well that just about turned me into another Valentine's Day hater. I couldn't understand why it was fair to make me be away from who I wanted to be with while my parents still got to be together. I spent the whole trip dreading the coming days when I should have been at home excited for the surprise yet to come.

Infamous "Neshaminy Cake"

Lmao, I love the cake we have at Neshaminy. And I decided to browse the Internet for fun to see if I could find the recipe before I actually asked one of the lunch ladies. Low and behold, guess what I found!

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,196,154165-226193,00.html

For anyone who doesn't know what Neshaminy Cake is, it's the chocolate cake that they ALWAYS have in the lunch lines. The one where the cake is always the same except the toppings vary.. Sometimes it's plain, sometimes there's whipped cream, sometimes there's the gross synthetic whipped cream that somehow managed to retain it's shape under the plastic, sometimes they're sprinkles, etc.. But the cake itself is amazing. And if you've ever been too afraid to go into the lunch line and get it yourself I highly recommend you do, because an experience at Neshaminy isn't the same unless you've tried Neshaminy Cake!

Something Only I Would Do

Dear ConAgra Foods,

I was reading the back of one of your boxes of Swiss Miss and I ventured into the recipe section. I was reading the "Chocolate Berry Tart" recipe and I noticed that there is an error. It states in the ingredients that you would need "2 individual tart shells or an individual graham cracker pie crusts" when really the word "crust" should be singular. Thank you for your time.

That's an actual letter I wrote to the makers of Swiss Miss... If they actually reply to me then I'll be sure to post that reply as well. Mike would be proud!

Stay Frosty

Your Photo of the Day!

I thought I would start your day off with a nice picture:

Don't you love when you freeze a video in a random place and get something like this?

Stay Frosty, I'm sure the weather helps