Pick #175

Sawyer Brown - "Some Girls Do" from The Dirt Road

DYK?

Monkey Lectric: It's Pimp Star for Your Bike!

Cell Phone Problems

I have been having weird problems with my cell phone. The lock screen won't respond to touch if it's plugged in to an AC outlet, the phone was turning itself off for no reason (then not turning back on when I hit the power button unless I plugged the phone in [and no, the battery was not dead] or removed the battery for a few seconds), the phone was losing battery fast until I stopped using "messages" and switched to "ChompSMS," and I can't remember what else was wrong.

I took it in to the Sprint store today to have them fix it. They did a hard reset and I haven't had any issues EXCEPT that they didn't do a very good job of backing up my contacts. I've had a hell of a time with syncing my contacts with Gmail: deleting someone on my phone deletes them from Gmail contacts! AAAHHHH. There are people that I want in my email address book but don't want to carry around with me in my phone. The Sprint people didn't back up my "Phone" contacts, only the "Google" ones. I lost all the connections I had on facebook and I lost the calendar entries I'd made from the phone that weren't synced up with my google calendar. HBF. I had to go through my old cell's contacts list and manually input a bunch of junk. I'm missing some people whose #s I acquired recently.

That's all. Just wanted to vent.

More Efficient Font?

Helvetica. There's a documentary about it. Perhaps the most famous font in the world. Some say that it's very efficient, yet I find that capital I and lowercase L look too much alike. 6 and 8 are hard to distinguish from a distance. It's not so aesthetically pleasing...just blends into the background. Some say that this last feature makes it efficient. It imparts only the necessary information and allows people to gather this info fast.

Turns out that one way in which it's not super efficient is ink usage. Check out this article about how much ink is used by fonts. They use pens, but I'm sure it's roughly the same in your printer.

Pick #174

Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Passionate Kisses" from Come On Come On

I've been on a country music kick lately. I made a Pandora station seeded with Alabama (then added some later) and it's the good '80s style country music that I grew up with. There are some songs played on Pandora that I forgot existed or haven't heard in a long time. ¡Viva el internet!

Soda Powered Phone

The future is coming...check out this phone.