Jay and I headed up to Chicago with a friend to see They Might Be Giants,
and brunch is a must for a chilly Saturday. M. Henry was recomended by a
friend and oh my god this is delicous. Mango Rasberry Blisscakes…. yum.
You won’t see this in Buffalo. #snap

I swear, go to a Wegmans around lunchtime and you’ll find yourself any
number of woofy bears to oggle at. This particular furry stud appeared to be
at lunch with his girlfriend, but I never heard a word between either of
them. Maybe she’s a beard. Either way, he’s eating sushi and that makes him
a winner in my book. #snap.

He had a soft face, but a ring on his finger, and a kid playing on the
slide. Either way, I thought he looked pretty alright bending over to pick a
pumpkin, or six. #snap

Since I never got around to getting my contacts, I never got around to
getting a pair of sweet sunglasses like these. Do I look detainable? Would
you pull me aside for a full body search? I hope so. #snap

I walked up to 818 Elmwood to find Amanda, Andrew, and Angel dicovering a
female condom… #snap

I’ve only managed to get one other person to “surf” with me on the Google Wave Preview. Its not that I don’t have a lot of friends, just none of my friends have invites. Therefore, I haven’t had a whole lot of chances to really interact, but I can definitely see where it’s going to be a pretty major tool in 2010. That is… if Wave launches in 2010. Robert Scoble booed the launch, calling it overhyped… I just think he’s a fat old overhyped complainer with too many friends and not enough who actually like him. Wave is extremely complex, and the possibilities are nearly endless for what it can achieve when complete.  For now, we just sit and tinker, patiently, hoping for more friends to play with…

And if you are reading this and still have no idea what Google Wave is, watch this most excellent of concise explanations below. And no, I don’t have any more invites. (via Gizmodo)

God I love Nick Frost. Not just because he’s an incredible comedic actor, not just because his best bud is Simon Pegg, not just because he made the cutest zombie evar in Shaun of the Dead… ok I love him for all of that but more so because he’s a fucking woofy riot. And he knows it! He just changed his profile picture on twitter, especially for the ladies, and the bears… rock.

Oh yea, Nick is working on another banger of a film with Pegg, check out WhatIsPaul.com to see what its all about.

The second thing I woke up to, besides my Google Wave invite, was a pop up on my phone that said there was a new update available for Android. I was still groggy and more excited about Wave, so I clicked “update” and hopped in the shower.

Showered, caffeinated, and at work waitng for people to add me on Wave, I finally sat down and looked at all the new things in the DRC83, which I take to be Donut Release Candidate 83, AKA the first update to Android 1.6.

Donut adds all the features they said it would: updated quick search box, multiple screen-size support, CDMA support, text-to-speech API, and a totally refreshed Android Market.

Updating the phone was quick, but the initial reboot took about 2 minutes for me. A few widgets crashed (calendar, unread SMS count), I was prompted to turn on Location sharing for Google, and the G1 went a little wonky. After a few more minutes, everything seemed to run fine. Overall speed seems to have improved, and the new Power Control widget is nice, letting me turn on/off wifi,bluetooth,GPS, sync, and brightness right from the home screen.

Android 1.6 also fixes a little pet peeve of mine. Previously, when you updated an app, the Market only told you what version you were upgrading to. Now it also tells you what version you are upgrading from. Trivial information for some, but for people who keep track of revisions and changelogs, this will be much loved.

I wasn’t expecting the upgrade so soon, but TMoNews  sheds a little light on the subject:

Select G1 handsets at 12AM Eastern Daylight Time tonight will receive the Donut update. Next, after a 24-hour waiting period, T-Mobile will extend its deliciousness to MyTouch3G handsets–that is, if there are no hiccups (meaning no bricked phones). Then, if all goes well, the rest of the users will start seeing the trickle down effect, regardless of handset.

Has anyone else gotten the update?

I consider myself a loyal follower of The Google, so it was an expected surprise to wake up to my Google Wave Preview invitation. I’m still waiting on being able to test Wave locally on buffawhat.com… I’m sure those invites will roll out in time. If you don’t know what Google Wave is, its essentially an open source communication and collaboration tool that I believe will change EVERYTHING. Check out this introduction below, explains it a lot better than I can.

I have a few invitations available for the preview, like 4 left. Comment on this post and I’ll send them as they come. and if I get more, I’ll go down the list. You don’t have to put your email in the actual comment itself, I’ll pull it from the form in the backend. I would suggest giving me your gmail/google acct as you’d probably have a better experience that way. Get ready to “surf” ya’ll!! (I really really want that to be the new term for Google Waving… help me spread it)

And if you already have a Google Wave Preview account, add me to your contacts if you’d like. The email I’m using is buffawhat [at] gmail.com

Update:: Just so you know, Google has this to say about the invitations:

Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.

Essentially, that means you may have to wait a bit for an invite to drop in your box.

Today is the day that Google will let loose 100,000 invites to the new and hardly finished communication service that is going to change the world: Google Wave. Like me, everyone is clamoring and refreshing their inbox to see if they get an invite. as of writing this post, it is a quarter to 4pm…

But, in Sydney AU, its only a quarter to 6am. Why does that matter? Well, the Google Wave team is based in Sydney and they just aren’t awake yet. Stephanie Hannon, project manager for Wave says that the invites will be out later in the day for us Stateside folk…

via mashable

How do you know if you’ll get an invite? You don’t. But if you signed up for the waiting list a while back, or use Google Apps, you might have a good chance.