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I just remembered that I work tonight and that my skirt can't be more than 3" above my knee at work. - amanda jones, spawn-hater Oct 13, 11:24 4
- borrow a guitar strap from your BF and staple it around the hem -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:27
- oh well, you will just have to buy a new one -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:26
- Pull it down! -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:25 1
  - Take it off! -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:25
Anita Perry: God has selected my husband to be President, and not those other candidates - Brian Oct 13, 11:19 3
- i can't shake the feeling that he's auditioning for a cushy slot on Fox News. -- nm - David Oct 13, 11:22
- I say give that man control of a slew of nuclear weapons. If you can't trust God, who can you trust? -- nm - volnelk Oct 13, 11:22
- refreshingly honest in its crazy. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:21
i'm sure you guys have polled this before, but what's your favorite app? the one i'm most impressed with is Shazam. - kare Oct 13, 11:17 16
- Kindle, or Weather Bug or Netflix -- nm - decline Oct 13, 11:30
- I like the ebay ap where you get notified of auctions closing and being outbid, its great to snipe while you are running errands or walking the dog -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:26
- When I use the iPad, it usually either a game (Yahtzee or Ticket to Ride) or the Kindle app or Netflix -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:25
- the one I use most is lex, for sure. -- nm - amanda jones, spawn-hater Oct 13, 11:23
- I'll never forget showing that to some of my friends for the first time. Minds. Blown. -- nm - volnelk Oct 13, 11:23
- NYC Mate (Train app) and Google Listen for my podcasts. -- nm - Krusty Oct 13, 11:22 2
  - Yeah, Google Sky (like reagen says) is the most impressive, but I use Google Listen all day. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 13, 11:24 1
    - It is but I don't really use it. The Google apps are well done. - Krusty Oct 13, 11:25
- One Bus Away - psilotum Oct 13, 11:21
- I use the timerric one - turns off sound during work hours -- nm - Epiphany Oct 13, 11:21
- One thing iPhone users don't get is Google Sky, which would have blown 9-year-old-astronomy-obsessed-me's little mind. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:20 2
  - word. Top ten ap, for sure. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:22
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- currently the first app I reloaded was Spotify. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:19
- Google Search - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:18
- sound elves. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:18
Speaking of Cellphones, I am looking to get a cellphone again, but just cellphone - amoxy Oct 13, 11:10 11
- I use Verizon $50/mo (Might be $45 now for new plans??). - con_carne Oct 13, 11:23
- cricket. $35/mo unlimited talk/text -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:14 1
  - Virgin/Sprint is $30 (but I don't know how quality compares). -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:18
- Virgin/Sprint. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:14
- how many minutes/month would you use? -- nm - psilotum Oct 13, 11:13 5
  - Probably less than 300 -- nm - amoxy Oct 13, 11:13 4
    - I use Virgin mobile, which has 300 minutes plus unlimited data/texting for $35/mo. - psilotum Oct 13, 11:18 3
      - I have Virgin and apparently got in right before they raised prices. - CovingtonCat Oct 13, 11:21 2
        
        I'm in at $25, too. Apparently, we can stay at that rate as long as we want, even with a new phone. -- nm - psilotum Oct 13, 11:24 1
        
        Ooh, nice. I was cheap and didn't get the Android but since the price of that has come down I was thinking of getting one. -- nm - CovingtonCat Oct 13, 11:26
- IIRC Qale does this. Talk to him. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:11
RP, cause it's funny: Miss USA contestants weigh in on one of the most pressing issues of our times -- (link) - znufrii Oct 13, 11:09 [youtube]
Ok, one more time - if you are on twitter, please vote for my pics - marcel Oct 13, 11:03
Weird coincidence. The song in my head just now was the theme from "Blazing Saddles," maybe because I withdrew a book about western films a few - mara Oct 13, 11:01 4
- "that uppity ni**er went and hit me in the head with a shovel!" nm -- nm - groiny Oct 13, 11:04
- Excuse me while I whip this out. -- nm - psilotum Oct 13, 11:03
- flutty flutty flue, wha wha wha -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:02
- obviously, now you know what movie you need to watch tonight - znufrii Oct 13, 11:02
School thoughts... - znufrii Oct 13, 10:59
wow, that iceland volcano eruption could be pretty huge. (and, human beings can pronounce it's name, unlike the last one.) - Andie Oct 13, 10:59
you know what i think? i think people who resist the iphone are usually just doing it on principle. stubbornness. but the fact is, they're missing out - kare Oct 13, 10:56 90
- My sister looked at my iPhone over the weekend and bought one yesterday. - David Oct 13, 11:26
- (okay, okay. i don't think this anymore.) -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:12 1
  - Honestly, I'd probably have an iPhone and be singing its praises too if AT&T would've let current customers get the new customer deal price. - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:16
- Yeah, replace 'iphone' with 'smartphone', and I can agree. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 13, 11:08 2
  - Well, "Do you want to be able to compute when you're away from a computer, yes or no?" is a pretty straightforward question for most people. -- nm - con_carne Oct 13, 11:31
  - yep -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:10
- I'm sure I would convert to Apple products more in general, if I could afford them -- nm - con_carne Oct 13, 11:05 1
  - this is true for me too (as i type on my Dell laptop) -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:06
- my hesitance in getting a smartphone is whether I'd actually end up doing anything other than checking ST and Facebook and playing Angry Birds -- nm - znufrii Oct 13, 11:03 28
  - i mostly do email, a little FB, ST checking. but it's also my alarm clock, a *great* emergency flashlight, easy to youtube, WWF, plus, the ability to - Andie Oct 13, 11:09
  - How much do you use Google products, like search, gmail, calendar, etc.? - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:07 11
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      - Is there a Chrome android browser? - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:14 3
        
        Not really. But there are two things to get that work great. One is Phone to Chrome which is an app to send stuff - TWuG Oct 13, 11:17
        
        Not yet, they're working on it. -- nm - Krusty Oct 13, 11:15
        
        It sort of is Chrome. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:15
    - my phone is the first personal organizer that I actually use, as opposed to buying and forgetting after a week. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:08 5
      - Over the past year, we've used Google Calendar much more than we used to, since Suzanne and I can invite each other. - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:11 4
        
        this is why I'm excited about my wife's iPhone. She's on a Palm Centro now with no data so no calendar sync - oblique Oct 13, 11:13
        
        this is what we've done. We share each other's calendars. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:12 2
        
        Us, too. We have one for our daughter, too. So we can schedule her stuff so we both can see it - TWuG Oct 13, 11:14
        
        same. love it. -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:12
  - you're going home, the radio traffic report mentions the usual bottlenecks but you can access the DOT cams and see how bad the freeway is here or ther -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:06 2
    - screw that. Use Waze (turn by turn directions with traffic rerouting) -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:07 1
      - I tried that, but I'd always forget to turn it on until I was in the middle of traffic. - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:09
  - casual gaming is probably the biggest thing for me. When you're stuck waiting for something pulling out your phone to play Yahtzee - oblique Oct 13, 11:06
  - this might be the case with some smartphones, but the iphone has stuff you don't even know you need yet. seriously, a few months into having mine - kare Oct 13, 11:06 6
    - The ghost of Steve Jobs has inhabited kare's body. !!! :) -- nm - con_carne Oct 13, 11:07 1
      - i wish. -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:15
    - I told my friend the same thing about his iPad. "Do I need one?" Me: "No, absolutely not. But once you have it, you will use it for *everything*" -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:07
    - As has been pointed out clearly here, the droid is the same. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:06 2
      - my (very limited) experience with the droid was that it wasn't as intuitive/easy to use overall. but i could be wrong. - kare Oct 13, 11:09 1
        
        I think you may be right about the user experience, FWIW. -- nm - mara Oct 13, 11:15
  - I thought that and was proven way wrong. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:05
  - I love being able to Google anytime, anywhere (practically). Plus Twitter is my favorite way to keep up with news. -- nm - mara Oct 13, 11:04 2
    - yep, it's my mini laptop; and then some. -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:07
    - Yeah, Speak and Search is the bomb. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:05
- Put me largely in the princple category, but it's not because I don't think they make a terrific product. I just think that in general apple products - pmb Oct 13, 11:03 2
  - which is a major issue I have with itunes. I don't want to have to install ever damn version they released. but if you don't itunes doesn't work right - sycor Oct 13, 11:07
  - Yeah, I just don't like that profit margin. -- nm - mara Oct 13, 11:04
- I don't use any Apple products. I tried a friend's iPhone but it wasn't anything special. - Krusty Oct 13, 11:02
- If you changed that from "iPhone" to "Smart Phone", I'd agree. I know I fought it for a long time and now I love my Droid. -- nm - Jim Oct 13, 11:01
- Question: do iPhones have free apps, or are they all $0.99 and up? - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:01 3
  - I've paid for four apps. lex, my *awesome* dictionary, TAL, and postsecret (which sucks). -- nm - amanda jones, spawn-hater Oct 13, 11:03
  - absolutely -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 11:03
  - yep. lots of free apps. -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:02
- My issue is with Apple's deciding for me what I can have access to. They keep a stranglehold on developers, punish jailbreaking, etc. - TWuG Oct 13, 11:01
- fair enough, but I'm still getting a droid. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 10:59 2
  - and it is on principle. For the first 3 iphones, it was not hearing aid compatible at all. I still resent them for that. Fuck them. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:01 1
    - And we thought we were angry. -- nm - the birds Oct 13, 11:03
- In general, android phones offer nearly all the same functionality - oblique Oct 13, 10:58 20
  - I kind of get the impression that android phones take a lot more tinkering. I don't want to tinker. I just want a phone that works. -- nm - amanda jones, spawn-hater Oct 13, 11:01 19
    - my understanding is that it accommodates tinkerers (unlike iphone) but does not require it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:06
    - Not so. Out of the box they work great. With tinkering they work even better. - TWuG Oct 13, 11:05
    - I don't tinker, I just use it, sure I've down loaded a few aps, but I prefer to use browser based sites -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 13, 11:04
    - You don't have to tinker if you don't want to. - Reagen Oct 13, 11:03 11
      - my experience with android is that *generally speaking* it is more unstable than iOS in both OS and apps - oblique Oct 13, 11:04 10
        
        I don't have those problems. No crashes or reboots, ever. The only issues I've ever had were caused by me - Krusty Oct 13, 11:11
        
        I guess I have not had mine long enough. One crash and zero reboots. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:08 3
        
        In the last two years, I've refreshed to the factory settings twice now, but only because of sluggishness. I don't think it's ever "crashed." -- nm - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:12 1
        
        Yeah, my "crash" was just an app that quit working and shut itself down, returning me to the non-ap screens. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:13
        
        mine's a little underpowered so I get a few more crashes than that. - Reagen Oct 13, 11:09
        
        and I worry. I mean, I walk home late at night. I would like my phone to be able to dial 911. -- nm - amanda jones, spawn-hater Oct 13, 11:07 3
        
        "Hi mandy, what do you have for us tonight?" "Some chick's friends have let her wear some hideous outfit and left her in the gutter again." -- nm - Max Oct 13, 11:15
        
        I've never had issues with the phone. I have had the browser occasionally lock up, but that's usually when using my shitty-ass - TWuG Oct 13, 11:12
        
        well, with the actual phone part of it, I've never had a single issue. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:10
        
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    - ST would easily give that impression. - TFox Oct 13, 11:02 3
      - It's not so much that you NEED to tinker more, it's that you CAN tinker more. -- nm - Ender Oct 13, 11:08 1
        
        This. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 13, 11:09
      - i *love* my android. i don't really remenber tinkering at all. -- nm - Andie Oct 13, 11:03
- when I got my android there was no way in hell I was going to get AT&T because around here they suck. But even now, I prefer android to iphone. -- nm - sycor Oct 13, 10:58
- Or they are smarter and have an Android. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 10:58
- When I started reading this I thought "Replace iPhone with chocolate and this is about me" -- nm - MDH Oct 13, 10:58 2
  - so what would you do with a chocolate iPhone? -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 10:58
  - heh :) -- nm - kare Oct 13, 10:58
- other than a few apps here or there, Android is exactly like the iPhone. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 10:57 3
  - with flash. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:00
  - And for the most part I feel like it's more like instead of having 10 available apps that do essentially the same thing, the android only has 8. -- nm - pmb Oct 13, 10:59 1
    - I'm still wondering wtf is taking the qrank people so long. -- nm - Reagen Oct 13, 11:00
- I have to say, I hate nothing more than seeing "This application requires Flash" when surfing online, but otherwise, I'm with you. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Oct 13, 10:57 6
  - i actually very rarely see this. -- nm - kare Oct 13, 11:02
  - Wow. That would suck. - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:00 3
    - Yes. Apple has zero support for Flash and mostly for a good reason. Flash (apps, games, etc) on touch devices is generally a shitty experience - oblique Oct 13, 11:02 1
      - Hmm. Maybe I have not been runnign into flash then, as I had not noticed a problem. -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 13, 11:04
    - yes. -- nm - loosilu Oct 13, 11:02
  - Good Lord, yes, this. - Stephen Oct 13, 10:58
- Or the fact some of us can't afford it -- nm - amoxy Oct 13, 10:57 2
  - Virgin Mobile, baby! - psilotum Oct 13, 11:06
  - Adding data to my phone plan was my biggest obstacle to switching for a long time. - TFox Oct 13, 11:04
*Survivor spoilers/thoughts* - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:54
12 months, same as cash! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:53 4
- There was an ad her for a moeny lender where the person going in for a loan was portrayed as righteously angry for having to produce ID - Reagen Oct 13, 10:56 1
  - No credit checks! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:58
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  - No interest until 2014! -- nm - Strongbad Oct 13, 10:55
Jax - do you still have the Moment? I'm about due for an upgrade. Think Samsung Epic. I hear it's pretty epic. -- nm - Viking dude Oct 13, 10:53 6
- yup. I just factory rebooted it last weekend as it was getting sluggish. - JaxSean Oct 13, 10:55 3
  - And yes, the Epic Galaxy 2 is the one I want at the moment. -- (link) - JaxSean Oct 13, 10:59 1
    - But I really like my keyboard. -- nm - sycor Oct 13, 11:16
  - I should probably do this. I've been having weird issues with my date antenna just turning off. have to turn airplane mode on and off -- nm - sycor Oct 13, 10:57
- if there's one thing viking dudes like, it's epic moments. -- nm - Max Oct 13, 10:54
- sfan -- nm - sycor Oct 13, 10:53
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