Recent Comments:
Intel VP says netbooks are "fine for an hour" {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2008 12:17PM My wife is a PhD student and will most likely get the Dell Mini 12 once it is shipping with XP instead of Vista. All that she needs in a machine is to run Word, send and receive email, surf the web, and connect to their remote servers with XTerm. Getting a 12" display, reasonable keyboard, and good battery life is what she needs, while staying very lightweight compared to her current 17" HP monster. We would like to see the Samsung NC10 in person to see if it would be a large enough keyboard and display, but no one has one at a retail location that I know about. So, even though the Dell costs $100 more than I would like, buying a $600 normal notebook that weighs twice as much wouldn't work nearly as well for the intended purpose.
Black Friday Giveaways (part 5): Universal Remote's URC Digital R50 {Engadget HD}
Nov 28th 2008 9:40PM Oh, my wife would love that.
Black Friday Giveaways (part 2): 2GB Eye-Fi Explore card {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2008 1:42PM I want this
Washington State May Be Historically Bad {Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog}
Oct 14th 2008 5:26PM Just a note that the OSU team that set the all time awful mark was the 1981 team, the article says that the conference was founded in 1916. OSU from 1980-83 was, I believe, 3-40-1 overall, and 1981 went 0-11 I believe.
Don't forget, T-Mobile and Google unveil the first Android phone tomorrow! {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2008 9:33PM Um, 10:30 PM Eastern?
Gary Kubiak Coaches Like It is Madden '09; Madden Wouldn't Approve {Fanhouse NFL Blog}
Sep 22nd 2008 3:18PM I had no problem with the one in the 4th quarter. If you can't get 1 yard to score a TD on 3 tries, you probably aren't going to win, but worst case it sets you up to have the other team give you back great field position, or commit a safety (see Saints-Broncos yesterday) that also gets you the ball in great position. They probably should have kicked it in the 3rd quarter, but when you're at the one yard line, you need to be able to score on that.
Squeezebox Boom review {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2008 4:16PM Yes, the novelty of something that lets me easily listen to my whole music collection in the kitchen/bedroom/office with a single box and not a complex stereo setup. My wife could typically care less about electronics, but if I got her one and set it up to have her whole music collection, I have no doubt she'd use it all the time.
Georgia Deserves the Doubt {Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog}
Sep 15th 2008 11:07AM Georgia also lost their starting LT since the initial polls came out, which probably caused everyone to look at them as weaker than when they first ranked them.
Win a Lexmark X7675 wireless printer and two cartridges {Engadget}
Sep 2nd 2008 12:52PM I could print out pictures from my wedding.
Indifferent swimmers break 8 world records while whining about Speedo's LZR Racer continues {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 11:22AM Many of those comparisons are ridiculous, or wrong. In cycling you can wear skinsuits, aero helmets, use deep rim carbon wheels, and many other things that can help enhance the ability that you already have. Track athletes (we'll choose sprinters for right now) have better uniforms that help keep muscles tight and newer shoe and spike designs that help with grip and cornering in races.
No one is going to take this gear and suddenly be world class. If you're already good, it's going to help you, but it's not instantly making you a star (that aero helmet and deep carbon wheels don't even help you unless you can keep that bike at 20+ MPH anyway). The swimsuit is just helping to enhance the abilities that the athletes already have. Phelps, Piersol, Coughlin, Hoff, Lezak and more all made the Olympics and Worlds the past few years, winning and setting World Records without the LZR suit, so obviously it hasn't turned them into something they weren't before.
If the suit is legal, and everyone has access to it, then there shouldn't be any room for complaints about it. Unless we want to try to keep things how they were at the start of the Olympics (cinder tracks, no goggles, no starting blocks), as long as the playing field is level for everyone now, just worry about the races and forget about the suit.
