• VLI week from hell is done. 2 tests and a sermon complete. Sermon didn't suck as much as I thought it would, which is a plus. #
• 15 minutes is just not enough time to flesh-out 10+ versus of 2nd Timothy. Artificial limitations are hampering my ability to be awesome. #
• Exciting free-agency first day for Da Bears. We'll see how these guys turn out, all of them being >= 30 years old. #
• Can't decide how much I like my latest batch of homemade hummus. Still think I prefer store bought. Maybe that means I'm making it wrong. #
• It is doughnut day at work, my fav day of the month, and I can't have any Only the 2nd time I am really regretting this vegan thing. #
• This vegan/Daniel fast thing has started to play hell with my digestive system. But I've lost 7lbs in 2 wks, so I guess that is a plus. #
• Email notifications for GoogleWave – Hooray! A step in the direction – next could u pls let me manage gmail/gvoice/gwave all in one place. #
• Google Wave seems snappier these days. Also they have a new feedback form with questions about Gmail interaction – very nice. #
• Pauline Lit midterm done – now studying for my church planting midterm. #
• Home sick today with some type of sinus thing. Trying to rest and kick it so I can get back to work tomorrow. #
• Man! There is a mobile developers conference in the Minneapolis and it is cheap – but it is on the last day of VLI and Alec's wedding #
• Got the garage door fixed today to the tune of $500 – UGH! Being an adult sucks sometimes – too expensive. #
• http://is.gd/9xJ4B Totally awesome for all your rube-goldberg fans out there. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass. #
• I think I want to be a hippie when I grow up. Can someone free me from my white-collar job and help me out with that? #
• Twitter needs an 'in context' link like identi.ca has. That would make twitter conversations less obnoxious if u don't follow everyone. #
• At first I thought it was ironic buying something from Dave Ramsey's site w/ my credit card, then I realized the box said 'debit card.' #
• I still loath iTunes. #
• Rocking the @Heatherlyn CD and loving it. I dig that local TC artists are so awesome & want to fight social injustice. http://is.gd/9oc97 #

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• One of my new local music heroes @heatherlynmusic http://www.heatherlynmusic.com/ check her out – awesome and maybe coming to your town! #
• At the MN without poverty event at Luther seminary. Loving the artists and the cause. #
• Battle of the odors, the rotten fish smell we can't get out of the fridge vs. leftover curry. Only one will emerge victorious! #
• Ate some great ethiopian tonight. Who knew that T's Place was Asian/Ethiopian fusion restraunt and bar. #
• My wedding ring fits on my middle finger now, which 2 me is cooler than putting an adapter in it until I reach goal weight & get it resized. #
• Just booked a trip from 4/15-4/20 for sis-in-laws wedding. Who is interested in watching our dog while we are gone? She is a lot of fun! #
• I just got some FREE music from Derek Webb. You can download it here: https://www.noisetrade.com/derekwebb #
• My dog apparently got out (we couldn't tell how) and a neighbor brought her home for us. Thnx neighbor! Lauren only left for 2 hrs today. #
• This lent thing is sucking much less now that I've figured out what I can eat that isn't salad. #
• I'm looking for good hummus recipes. I can't quite get what I'm looking for in the ones I've tried. #
• Being a Christian and Tithing has some serious tax benefits. #

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• Still on the phone w/ service guys in Germany – it is around midnight there now. This has been an insane walk-thru with these guys. #
• I'm often impressed by how good the video quality is over low bandwith for google's video chat. XMPP+Jingle-Video FTW! #
• I hate when you learn so much about an interesting hobby that you figure out you will probably never be great at it. #
• Matisyahu closed out the Olympics tonight on NBC.
  they'll be no more wars
  and our children will play
  one day #
• I'm not so sure about this lent thing. #
• http://is.gd/8B1cW Great article on Smart-phone OS's. Good info for highlighting my points in my last blog entry. http://bit.ly/aPRWPC #
• This windows 7 phone thinger looks like it might not suck. It doesn't look like my bag entirely, but I'll reserve judgment until I use one. #
• The days where you feel you've experienced the most growth are often the days you glimpse how much further you have to go. #

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It is not saying anything new to point out that the iPhone changed the way we thought about and interacted with smart-phones. In the years following the Android phones brought us a vision of what a cloud-centric phone OS on many vendors hardware could provide if it was well supported. And the Palm webOS phones showed us what intuitive multi-tasking and a great notification system could provide.

With the improvements to the hardware and software over the two following years of iPhones and their respective software we got most the features we could want. I assume some sort of multi-tasking is coming in the 4th iteration. So we have reached a place where the revolution has evolved to a mature place of mobile-specialized OS’s and great hardware.

But where is the next revolution? I don’t think it is in the tablet space, which is being heralded as the next big consumer computing cash-cow. I think at least the next big evolution, or progression would be context-aware computing and inter-computer interaction.
( Long rambling about phones with diagrams! )
Now, my question to you smart-phone users out there; What is your beef with how your PC and phone interact? What would improve that? And, would any of this help you use a phone or a tablet in a more effective and satisfying way? Or is it just me who doesn’t like the way things are now?

• This is a really fun defense of the paper letter snail-mailed to people http://is.gd/8kjzK #
• Ever think back about what u have done or said & say to urself 'that was really immature.' Yeah, I'm in a church-planting lecture right now. #
• Why can't media players and phones have a standard for syncing media – I hate iTunes and Android has no companion sync'ing software. #
• RT @simpsonian Married Men Discussion Forum meeting 2/20. Super excited! Sign up for the activity group at http://trunc.it/5haqd #
• My dog has decided to start chewing the bark off of the bottom of one of the trees in the yard. #
• Anyone? RT @jenhiccups: House showing 2 of 3 complete for the day. Anyone know someone looking for a St. Paul home to rent? #
• Google keeps releasing awesome products, which are not supported by native iPhone apps. This move me closer to buying an android phone. #
• This fiber-based 1Gbps to-the-home network Google is starting is a shot-across the bow of big ISPs and I like it. #
• http://is.gd/85QvU This could be a big deal – Could they run fiber to my house please! #
• Just got the new facebook layout – don't hate it, but the newsfeed is still garbage – maybe they will some day get rid of it for good. #
• Google Buzz is a step towards my vision of a unified msg center – now give me my txt msgs, voicemail, and waves all in there too. #
• Google Buzz is very interesting – like Greader and facebook statuses in my gmail. #
• I dig it – definitely pleased with the outcome. #
• Anyone doing something for the superbowl? I got no plans right bow and haven't heard much going on party-wise & that makes me sad. #

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• Opened a bottle of 2006 Avery's Czar Imperial Stout only to find it had bottle-shock and had a bite and a nasty finish. #
• Not sure yet how I feel about the new offensive and defensive coordinator decisions for da bears. Both x-head-coaches… #
• My dog has decided tonight that she is terribly afraid of me – I'm actually not sure why – I've been really nice to her all night. #
• I have a sweet idea on how we should interact w/ multiple computing devices in our lives – but no skills to implement #
• Why do ppl make me do everything 4 them, particularly ppl that only deal in txts. I don't have a txt plan, & can't give directions ovr txt. #
• I hate when I mouse over a flash movie or flash banner my scroll wheel stops working on my mouse until I move it off of it – flash sucks. #

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• I'm also still waiting for wireless sync – kindle has that on them for books, but it is silly to not have bluetooth or wireless sync by now. #
• Seriously lame that they don't seem to have any multi-tasking on this thing – really need for that in the iPhoneOS 4.0 or I'm goin android. #
• If you are an apple junkie you can now own something in every segment of the market – $100 thru $3000, with only a few stops on the way. #
• $30 for unlimited data is what I'm paying – cool part is the no contract – definitely like that. Too bad no verizon so far. #
• So far I am unimpressed with the iPad. Just sayin… #
• Sold my old router to a guy who has no idea what DD-WRT is. Not sure if this is awesome, or really sad in a way. #
• Doing a little research for prepping my sale of WAP54G and discovered you can load DD-WRT on it, and the stock fw has some cool features 2. #
• Sweet, sold my router on craigslist – dude picking it up tonight. Hopefully soon my access point and 24-port switch will go as well. #
• The google voice web-app that they released today is pretty sweet – major upgrade from their old mobile site. m.google.com/voice #
• Had a great small group last night, gonna be a fun time with those people – And there is a WOOT-Off today, can life get much better? #
• Excited for small group tonight! Anyone who doesn't have a small group should come check it out at 7pm 2nite at the Ashbachers place. #

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• Team Jake – Edward is king of the pale Emo whiny dorks – definitely team Jake #
• I love the Riverview – great atmosphere and 2 tickets cost less than 1 @ a mega-plex. Sparkly vampires & shirtless warewolves for date nite. #
• Pricing out parts to do a server upgrade. Thinking AMD w/ integrated GFX to stay on the cheap. #
• HTML5 Video would be totally rad if they could just nail down a way to handle licensing as well as be forward facing for future codecs. #
• OH NO! The Office is having a flash-back episode! Is this the beginning of the end? #
• Would someone please explain why it takes more than 51 votes to pass a health-care bill. Cuz this process has been a little ridiculous. #
• Contemplating a network architecture overhaul – anyone know of a good place to get a cheap used server that is 2 to 3 years old? #
• I think there may be hardware issues – MythTV showing a 93% signal and still getting artifacts and stutters – tuner card, CPU, or HD? #
• Apple Event followed by State of the Union address – coincidence? I think NOT! #
• Thus far the two channels I most want to record get the weakest signal from this antenna. Time to reconnect old antenna and compare. #
• Ben-tenna 2.0 completed – Now it is time to test it and see how it works indoors on the TV before moving it to the mythTV backend. #

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On Friday my MythTV server (my DVR software running on my server) had major audio and video artifacts and skipping during Dollhouse. This isn’t the first time this has happened and is particularly annoying since the TV upstairs rarely, if ever, has issues with Fox. Well, this was the last straw for me.
( WTF is broken?!?! )
( How am I gonna fix it )

And finally, before the pics, some links for more interesting info:
Two articles about building the antenna from some RF magazine
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/68820
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/68436
And the PDF for the GPLv3 version of the antenna with the rod reflectors/passive elements.
http://www.xmtr.com/articles/RF182-fig1.pdf

• Thinking about building a new antenna or two today – trying to decide which version to build. #
• As a man who made fun of many vikings fans during the Tice era I can say with certainty that this is a REALLY bad idea. http://is.gd/6g8iJ #
• http://is.gd/6c93c – A great, short, "What is Google Wave" FAQ from lifehacker/smarterware. Read this if the idea of wave confuses you. #
• The Bible Experience = best audio Bible ever. Lavar Burton and Samuel L Jackson, how can you go wrong. #
• Reboot of spiderman…really? Could you at least wait until some assclown makes everything neon or ten years – whichever comes first? #
• We're at about the 40 minute mark now – this is stupid. I hate iTunes. If the iPhone didn't rock so hard I would never use it again. #
• Why is it that iTunes takes 18 years to sync my iPhone still – this + google sync is why I frequently 'forget' to do it. Stupid iTunes! #

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• Everything is falling into place for a new small group – Monday nights, 7pm, starting the 25th – Anyone interested? It is gonna rock! #
• I've got an electronics project itch to scratch and it is seriously making miss having good surface-mount soldering tools at my disposal. #
• Just watched Friday's Dollhouse on DVR – it BLEW MY MIND. I like that the show seems to be actually heading somewhere as it wraps up. #
• Date night at the Walker Art Center – The company was much better than the art, and I had a great time. #
• Dear GM – iPhone/blackberry/Android app for Volt = YES! Onstar subscription required = you still don't get it u dumb upsell jerks. #
• Dear wireless carriers, our goal is to slowly lure you out of your consumer unfriendly business models. Love Google and Apple. #
• Boxee Box for under $200!!!! http://is.gd/5MXVF Sweet, that is very likely my next DVR/Media-center PC. #
• Oh Bono… <shakes head and sighs> http://is.gd/5MVUw and an appropriate response from ars technica http://is.gd/5MVVW #
• I got 2 XKCD books (vol 0) for Xmas. Anyone intersted in buying one off me – $18, and if you are local you will get free shipping! #

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• Supposed to be double-digits below zero most of this week. The In-laws left at the right time. #
• At work when we can't find the right material 4 something we say "If we could just invent unobtainium." In other news Avatar made me laugh. #
• I want to express my severe disappointment over the lack of a flying car in 2010. It is +10 to the level of disappointment I had in 2000. #
• A few of us are doing a weight loss challenge, 3 mos, most % of weight lost wins the pool. Anyone else interested in joining us? #
• RT @danblah: Arianna Huffington: Move Your Money: A New Year's Resolution http://bit.ly/4ZkbGD #
• RT @cnnbrk: Iran's parliament calls for arrest of Moussavi, two other opposition leaders http://bit.ly/6kZKZq #
• RT @sourceforge: Elastix is Asterisk on steroids, plus a whole lot more, all in an easy-to-manage package http://ow.ly/Qwai #
• Let's try again when ppl r back @ work. I need to borrow and office 2k3 small business disc from someone local. Anyone? #

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• Anyone have a copy of office 2003 small business (OEM) that I can borrow – have a key, need a disc for the in-laws to re-install. #
• Merry Christmas Everyone! Feeling pretty fat and happy, really enjoyed the church lunch and the afternoon w/ the in-laws. #
• USPS, effective at delivering letters, pretty much terrible at everything else. Especially packages. #
• Because of this #USPSFail Lauren will not get her Xmas presents – thanks USPS for refusing to do anything about it when I called, asshats. #
• Placed order w/ @Amazon Dec 16, shipped 17 from nevada, sort facility in CA 18th – Dec 23rd Utah sort facility. #USPSFAIL #
• According to Amazon, my USPS delivery for Lauren's presents may be delayed due to weather conditions. F'ing great, #USPSFail … again. #
• The snow-pocalypse is upon us! Behold the power of white! #
• Belinda Jensen just said it's time for hysteria because the snow-pocoplypse is approaching #
• The Catlin/Martinez families seem to have difficulty traveling in the winter w/o running into inclimate weather. #
• CRAP! Weather forecast might impact the inlaws flying into town – very bad deal, they can't get a break on flying to the midwest in winter. #
• Switch replaced, "Let there be light!" Drain-o poured in the laundry room, and I cooked a pizza. Productivity continues past work hours! #
• I love progress, and I'm finally making some – at work and in my android project. #
• My Christmas wish is for my dog to stop eating poopcicles – that is frozen poop. I hate finding it on my sidewalk every day. DogTrainingFAIL #

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