I’ve been trying to get a decent picture of the Lucky II lottery and market,
which apparently, also offers cricket wireless. Though the artwork is always
sub par and sometimes laughable, the pure coverage of these corners stores
is something to look at. I do think the giant painted iPhone is badass.
#snap.

I suppose I’m a bit of a bastard for this, but I’m a little too desensitized to sick shit to make a good reaction video. SO… I enlisted the help of Angel and his friends to watch it for me. I sorta fubar’d and didn’t record the reaction the first time, but Demarkis came home later and the poor guy was suckered into watching the worst out of all the “X guy(s)/girl(s) X cup(s)” videos so far. Once again, I will not link to this, but I found it over at a little site called efuckt. Its called “1 guy 1 cup” and its really frickin’ terrible.

Its Christmas Time, already! I finally have the Munny’s Finished! What started out as a simple thing got procrastinated to the last minute of course but thank god I’m done. Much thanks to Angel who helped with a lot of the sewing. I wanted to leave the Munny blank, so after this blasted holiday those who received one could strip off the sweater and make their own DIY! I’m also giving one away to one of my readers. Leave a comment ASAP and Tuesday I’ll pick a winner randomly and send it out. Include your address (I’ll strip it out before your comment goes public) to expedite the process. If you intend on entering please remember to include an address or I’ll assume you don’t want a chance. I promise to only sign you up for the best junkmail.

We have a WINNER! by randomosity of the pulling frometh the furry hat, it doth be Brian, AKA CincyCub. Thanks for all who entered and may there be more BuffaSchwag in 2009!

I gotta hand it to Joe the D for hand coloring a bunch of christmas lights
to make the rainbow christmas trees hanging over tha bar… but jesus they
are bright! #snap

Did I mention Joseph Sayers is one of our bartenders? I suppose I take his
looks for granted, I never knew the gays loved him so much… he’s just a
great guy ya know.

This is total blog bait btw. #snap

I’ve been in bed all day. Watched “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” for the first time. God that movie is sad. In about an hour I have to head back to the club. Hopefully its busy. Last night was the biggest full moon, and it felt like everyone was in a K-Hole…..

I haven’t been into Krudmart on Elmwood in a while, but they had the New Mishka knit sweaters, and Krink pens, so I had to step in. I picked up my markers, and tried on the sweater. Perfect fit. Angel is bitching about the $130 tag… but that’s a good price for the quality of the knit. Its sooo comfy, and the Keep Watch eyeball is so badass. Merry Christmas to ME! #snap

The folks over at ModMyGPhone claim that Lenovo has a phone in the works, with pictures to back it up. Dubbed “OPhone,” this is a sweet model and beautifully designed. No word on specs, but from the picture you can tell there is a spacious touchscreen with embedded “hard buttons,” USB port, and a headphone jack.

China Mobile has been working on OMS for quite some time now. With the Apple deal going nowhere after multiple rounds of negotiations (because of China Mobile’s refusal to share any of its profits), it needs an OS of it’s own. A well placed source said,”Given these(iPhone, Android, Symbian) developments, it is becoming very clear that developing a proprietary handset operating system is essential for dominance of the mobile Internet market in China. At the moment, China Mobile is in a comparatively weak position without its own operating system. With its own operating system, China Mobile will be able to commission customized phones from handset makers and keep its hand strong in negotiations over profit sharing. There is even the possibility that China Mobile may move into manufacturing handsets itself.”

The one catch, we will never see this in the US. even if Lenovo could possibly bring it over, it would be seasons past by that time and most of the internal parts would have to be replaced to work on a US carrier and spec regulation.

That being said, who will be the one to bring the Shiny Shiny, the beautiful phone with the killer features, to the US, finally giving android a cute body to go with all them brains?

Let’s face, the HTC G1 is nothing more than a glorious consumer-passable dev model. Google even admits it as they are now selling it as an sim-unlocked dev model for $399 to developers. I’m not saying the G1 is a bad phone; its a great phone spec-wise if we can forgive a few HTC blunders (more on that later). the G1 is a buttaface (yea i said it).

Right now, we have a few comanies saying they are making phones for the Android OS, but lets focus on the ones that can actually give the US some love.

• Motorola – yea.. ya know what? Uh-uh Sources say the Moto+droid will look like the Krave ZN4, and be cheaper and faster than the G1. As a multiple Motorola owner, I used to replace a RAZR every three months, and every other Motorola phone I’ve had has bit it somehow or another. They make great throwaway phones that shatter on impact; I want a smartphone to be a little more durable. Plus, I don’t think they’ll have enough life left in them to make more than one model.
• Samsung and LG – I do not like their phones. Any of them. Plus, they were in the race to get the first out but something happened and we probably wont see anything till midsummer next year. I would love to eat my words and be humbly surprised but I doubt it.
• Sony Erricsson – I am going to put my bets on a high-end Android phone from Sony Erricsson in the Summer of 2009. A recent addition to the fold of the OHA, Erricsson has experience making a great high power phone, with robust media features, and powerful cameras. One of the biggest gripes about the G1 is lack of pretty, no headphone jack, and a crappy camera. With all-star releases like the cybershot K800i and the new Xperia under the belt, Sony Erricsson is not going to pull any stops to make an Android phone with everything.
• HTC – They already have a G-Phone out, so I’ll give them the credit for actually being able to create, market, and sell an Android based smartphone. The question here is can they do it again, this time with better hardware?  I’ve had a few HTC phones, and 3MP doesn’t mean shit if the shutter is slow. I can only manage to take great pictures on the G1 by holding the phone really still and hoping my subject doesn’t move. This is really rough for my attempts at getting hot bear du jours in the wild. I can forgive the lack of video recording; it’s an Android feature that isn’t available yet. And while HTC could put a 3mm headphone jack in their next G-phone, they probably won’t because they LOVE their ExtUSB ports and think you should too. HTC designs a pretty phone, and have done wonders in making Windows Mobile less of a giant turd, just by wrapping it in some shiny. The point is that HTC can do the shiny shiny for Android, but the G2 will be a shiny turd as well if the can’t boost their hardware.

It seems that the race is really between HTC and Sony Erricsson. Can HTC fix their issues and pop out a beaut instead of a turd? Or will Sony Erricsson lay down the mother of all iPhone/Nokia killers? Tune in this Summer.

What do you think? Who else is in contention? Does Motorola have a chance in hell? Let ‘em rip in the comments.

The first leg of my DC-A-Go-Go trip entailed a visit to the National Gallery of Art with John. There, we met up with his good friend Magda, who works in the most awesome place ever: the East building designed by I. M. Pei. A little note about the East Building, besides the fact that it houses the contemporary and modern works for the NGA, the building itself is designed so that there are no right angles. Like, none. Walking around inside the staff area, you can’t help but effect a sense of vertigo.

[Found out after this picture, not allowed to have camera's in the staff area. whoops!]

Its all really pleasing really; even the elevators are random heptagons.  Magda took us to lunch in the staff “refectory” (parallelogram tables FTW!) and then for a trip to the pedestrian walkway that bridged the east and west buildings of the NGA.

click after the jump to see the Villareal.

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Hey all, I’m going through some changes, taking advice from a lot of the amazing new people I met at the summit (like Andy Wibbels) and so I’d like you to tell me one thing (or more!) that you could see changed, moved around, or added to make this site better.

I’m also tailoring the categories into four sections

Buffalo,
Lifestream
Culture
Technology

Since my flavor is a bit queer, I don’t feel like that’s a needed section.

Let me know!