Category: technology

• Cue the dueling banjos

  Our GPS device is like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. First, you should know that she gives directions in a British accent. I’m totally serious. She sounds a little bit like Helen Mirren, if Helen Mirren were giving you driving directions while being AutoTuned. Her crisp diction and cold demeanor keep our driving focus […]

  Charles

  September 8, 2010

  driving, technology, the dc experience, vacations

• Update on BlackBerry

  OMG, I love it. We have finally negotiated our differences effectively and have been getting along famously for most of the week. (My first BlackBerry was defective and died the morning after I got it–that’s what caused most of the problems.)

  Charles

  July 17, 2009

  good news, technology

• The Change

  I’ve just switched over to using a Blackberry and twelve hours into it, I’m totally lost and confused. It won’t turn on. I can’t figure out how to turn it on and make it start up. I also can’t figure out how to make it sync my contacts and calendar, without which it’s just a […]

  Charles

  July 15, 2009

  technology, the worst thing to ever happen to me

• Tagline Brainstorm

  Twitter: Because everything you think is genius. Twitter: Chat for the schizophrenic. RT @myself Chat for the schizophrenic! Twitter: Impulse control? So 20th Century. Twitter: Need more quilt inside your sexy warm typewriter? Twitter: Sucking your life away one Tweet at a time. Twitter: If the President does it, it isn’t a crime! Twitter: Like […]

  Charles

  June 8, 2009

  culture, technology, twitter