Sunflowers, daises and a random fir tree all purchased from the Target dollar bin aisle!
Fir Tree planted in 2011
Daisies planted in the spring of 2011
Sunflowers planted in 2011
Sunflowers and daises in pot with tiny birdhouse
WARNING: DON’T USE COLOR ALONE. OR WITH ANYONE ELSE. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP.
The much-hyped about Color social networking app arrived on the Andriod market soon after the iPhone app launch so thanks to Color for including Andriod users in their release. Unfortunately, Color violated the one rule you shouldn’t violate when you release an app into the store. Do not release a very buggy and unusable app into the mobilearena. First impressions mean everything in this world, and with their two star Andriod color app, my first impression is one of pure distaste. It was amazingly difficult to convincefriends sitting right next to me to download the app with its (currently) two star rating. My friends gave me very distrustful questioning looks. And rightfully so because after using it for aboutfive minutes, even I wanted to uninstall it. Nearly every step contained an unrecoverable/force close bug. Aside from running into bug after bug, I didn’t know how to properly use the app. Usually I don’t mind not knowing how to use something, I’ll learn it , no problem, but after trying to find a short demo of howthe Color I found nothing. Zip. Zero. Nothing. Why couldn’t they write short step by step guide on howto use Color? What i really wished for was a video, but after using their app, I suspect they couldn’t create a video because their app was so buggy they wouldn’t be able to film a continuous segment without some kind of error popping up.
Anyway, thank you Color for teaching us all about what not to do when launching a social networking app.
Here’s my advice to color:
1. Launch a FAQ2. Make a demo video3. Rewrite their ‘WARNING’ message to sound friendlier/have more explanation.4. Fix bugs ASAP5. Spin up the Damage Control PR team. Your much-hyped 41 million dollars is making you look ridiculous anyway, might as well try spending it to fix this disaster.
A rainy Friday night here in LA.
Photos of the remaining Banksy pieces:
An oldie but a goodie over on Broadway and 9th.
Oh, and this is a random Shepard Fairey I saw while driving around.
I felt ‘Good Stuff’ was pretty average. I mean, I’d almost say it’s under average and that I’d rather have a cheaper ‘six dollar burger’ from Carl’s Jr. I would have saved myself about 3 bucks if I had decided on that route. Oh well, ‘Good Stuff’ seems to get plenty of business but it’s probably not because of its burgers.
Great coffee starts with a burr grinder. Grinding beans right before use helps keep all of the natural oils and flavors intact until the moment you brew. This is exactly what ‘Our Daily Grind’ does and that is what makes their coffee superior to pretty much any other place in El Segundo. If you’re in the neighborhood of LAX / El Segundo (and Venice is just too far away), then this is the place to get your coffee fix.
Now, I’m probably the last guy on this bandwagon, but I’m definitely on the bandwagon now. I just really dig their sound. I’m still going through their album ‘Brothers’ and so far so good.
Here’s a music video off the 3rd track of the album:
Link to their album on amazon *Note: I do not get paid for this link
I’m trying to set up an entire java dev environment with STS / Eclipse and this is just the first step. Hopefully it is the right first step, I’ll keep you updated.
Informal notes:
Open a terminal
Since the repo isn’t available by default add it to apt by running this command:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
To get those changes:
sudo apt-get update
then run
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk
Here’s another band I had the opportunity to see before they got huge. I guess I could see them become big back in the day, but I didn’t really see them in the form they are currently. At least they have stuck with their really nice visuals. In this case, LCD Soundsystem’s song is actually much better with the video.
Looks like She & Him got a ton of money to make this video.
