I Want It All

My $10 Android phone (Moto E, 1st Gen) which has no voice, text or data plan is complaining about space, the final frontier. As in, I finally can't fit another app on it. Which sux, 'cause I've moved all the ones I can move to the SD card (16GB), and all my photos and videos are stored in the cloud, now. This may be why my pano shot at Lake Leland did not store... anywhere. And the one nice shot I got had a nasty horizontal line glitch in it.

Yes, Google Play Movies & TV... almost all of that is on the SD card, as its approximately 17 hours of television episodes (SD card) and the app (internal). Those episodes are of The Expanse (whole first season) and the last eight episodes of Breaking Bad. Those are my "go to sleep" entertainment for my battery-powered sleep cycle. Start one, I'm asleep in 15 minutes or less.

All of the Google shit seems to have to run from the internal storage, which really chaps my scrotum. 'Cause it's all so big and heavy!

This is all I can put on the SD card, so far. I'd love to install MyTracks again, to help Brother Bob with the cool map action, but I don't know a way to force it to install on the SD!  Any hints?
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Magical!

Isn't that amazing?
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Playing With DeepDream via Dreamscope

It's called Dreamscope, and it's pretty fun!

Psyche-Jeff.

Kevin gets a makeover fit for a quilt.

Makes my face hurt.

Poor Curly!

Andy & I go scootin'... ON SHROOMS.

Calendar Boy's famous photo... ON SHROOMS.

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Selfie Stuck

Yes, my shirt does  say, "Fear the Shih-Tzu."
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Random Stuff

Dropcam kept an eye on Wanda, overnight. It cost $10, but if she got nabbed, I'd have video of it, at least. It may turn out to have a use after kittehs, after all. Or maybe Stranger will perform.

I bet you missed this in Captain America: Winter Soldier, near the end. "And I shall lay down my vengeance upon thee..."
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My Gauge!

Acugauge TK-9A, a direct ripoff of the Watts TK-9A.

FedEx, with their pinpoint GPS-guided accuracy, delivered this to, of course, Sweet CeCe's, a frozen yogurt shop which has the same address as mine, 'cept they're WEST, and I'm EAST. Dumbasses.
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CatopiaTN.com is Live

Coming soon!  Live video feeds of Curly & Kevin!
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Framed

High-tech, "memory metal" frames, at that.
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Idea

... for labels to affix to RP assemblies. Yeah?

QR code sez, "0000001," btw.  ;)
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Turkey Balls!

Dinner -- turkee meetballs, fried brown rice with veggies. Yumm-O. 500 calories, and this was a LOT of food. Still ending up ~400 calories under, even with beer!

Buy one for $3, get another for $1!  Chinese bargains!
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If Only We Could Get This For Assholes

On Curly?

Very effective. Drains all the stress out of him in seconds. Or has, so far. Used it to introduce Moe, and again with Lord Kelvin (Kevin) and 'Melia.

On Amelia?  She doesn't care if it snows apple butter.  :)  She's a toddler, and has a great and gregarious disposition.

On Kevin?  No change in his behavior. Still hiding. I would not have believed he could fit under the vice mayor's ex-chair, but he can, and has been there since the last time I couldn't find him, in the wee hours of Sunday morning. He's come out to eat, drink and poop, though. The darkness must be more comfortable for Kevin. He seems to suffer from bilateral mydriasis, which is permanently dilated pupils which can be caused by many different conditions/traumas, some gravely serious. His vet prior had no concern about it, so... dunno.

Now, because I am an idiot, I have to re-home both Kevin & 'Melia. The landlady objects to cats, in general, even though our original handshake deal on renting this house from her included moving in with Curly & LarryElvis, and she charged what she considered to be a fair damage deposit for both cats. I thought it was on the low side, and I won't argue the point that I took in these two cuties without consulting her beforehand, 'cause I was stupid enough to do exactly that. This is a case where begging forgiveness wasn't going to cut it, so I will make it right this week. It's my own damned fault.
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Mo' Dollar Tree Holla

Slipcase for the LG G2. No belt clip, but still useful. One side is reinforced with a stiff foam (screen side), and the whole dealio stays nicely secure over the sun visor in the truck.

Golla for a dollah makes me holla for Dollar Tree!
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Dollar Store Dementia

See this?  Yes, of course you do. It's a solar-powered 3-LED lamp I got at Dollar Tree. For... $1. Plus tax. So here, $1.10. Cheap, Chinese crap, right?

Well, sure -- what isn't, these days?  Amazingly, they actually work!  For now. At $1/ea., I splurged, and bought six.

At 5 a.m., they were still providing enough light in the bathroom to at least conduct a necessary transaction in there, if need be. And they were on from ~8:30, last night?  Yeah -- they automagically come on at dark if you leave the switch on (and shut off when there's enough light to charge by), which is a lot to ask from something that cost a buck, I think.

But I want MOAR.

Six more ought to do for the bathroom. I'm going to affix them to a strip of clear acrylic plastic, and put a nylon rope handle on each end, so that I can hang it/them in a window, and then elsewhere where a little illumination could be handy at night.
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It's Such A Holiday

I got a $15 Chinese chair from Dollar General so's I could commune with Curly. He likes it, and so do I!

This is where I drink, and Curly observes.

... while I puff on the pufferfish.
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Dear Asurion

Well, that's so nice of you to suddenly become concerned, Asurion. Really, I'm touched!  Allow me to make a somewhat  different proposal.

I'd be more than happy to write up a detailed report of your immense shortfalls in this matter. I can't do that for you, for free... after all, you've asked me in this comment for a consultation to improve your customer service, ostensibly, and it would take many ADDITIONAL hours of my time (by which I mean the wasted, uncompensated hours I've spent since March, '14, chasing down this claim) to repeat what your CRM software should, by all rights, have assembled for you a good summary of precisely what occurred.

If you would like my consultation, I offer it at $500/hour. You may reply to this e-mail address (sent 6/25/2014) with any response.

UPDATE: E-mail bounced. Takin' it to the streets.

Delivered-To: j****@***.com

Received: by 10.216.182.132 with SMTP id o4csp269226wem;

        Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:27:02 -0700 (PDT)

[...]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

    (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops)

[...]

(much SMTP bilge deleted now -- point made)

UPDATE 6/28/14: Nice to see I have their attention, every day. Even Saturday!

click to embiggen.

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Panoramabanana

Front yard at 319. Something from the new LG G2.
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Comcast Monopoly Bastards

This is why I stay on my $40/month Clear 4G plan. Such cocksucking bastards. And thanks, FCC, you useless, give-a-fuck cocksuckers.
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HBD2ME

LG G2 (or VS_980_4G as it identifies itself by default).

I have a check waiting for me in Murfreesboro. It's from the shitheads at Asurion through whom OfficeMax does their replacement insurance plans on stuff. It's just over $200, to cover the replacement of my broken Asus/Google Nexus 7 tablet -- my second, btw. Now, the Nexus 7 is not a defective product -- it's fookin' awesome in every respect. But it is a bit fragile.  :)  I broke my first one (which I still have, and it works... but sometimes completing the simplest thangs on it requires several orientation changes, due to the cracked display/touchscreen) by dropping it onto a tile floor. I put it under my arm to take a piss, and the rest is obvious. The second (covered by Asurion!), I broke when I put it in my back pocket while moving, and bent down to retrieve a LarryElvis who had jumped out of my arms. *CRACK!*  Yeah, that was three months ago, telling you how committed to customer satisfaction those fuckeyes at Asurion are!

The point is, the Nexus 7, as a concept, is deceptively-sized. It's small enough to fit in many back pockets, but otherwise too big to hold onto in one hand all the damned time. What I needed was a smaller tablet or a phone that could be a WiFi-only tablet with a kickass camera, Bluetooth capability and decent storage space. Something I could put in a front  pocket with little worry of breakage. The LG G2 fits these needs.

"I am not an animal phone!"

It boasts a 13MP camera, which is more than enough for cat pixels and oddly-placed backflow assemblies' serial number confirmations, which is damned handy for me. At work, we recently has a visit with a fellow from corporate IT named Chul, who lived for a time in the Nashville area. Chul though for the additional $80/month it would cost, combined, for me & my boss to upgrade to serious kickass smartphones from our current crappy flip phones made perfect sense. There are too many instances where photographic documentation, ability to edit MS-Word documents (like our inspection form!), GPS live turn-by-turn navigation and whatnot would end up saving the company a shit-ton more than the cost of getting contracts on these phones. So, that may happen. But this company said we badly needed a PC replacement two years ago, and still we wait. So, nice words are nice words.

Chul mentioned that we have a policy for BYOD -- that is, "Bring Your Own Device," where employees can receive a stipend on approved devices/data plans, using their own tablets/phones. The G2 is one of those approved & supported devices. :)  Another deciding factor.

So, I still have to get all the drivers an' shit straight -- as of now, I still can't Bluetooth files back and forth from my PC, but I'll keep working on it.
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$5 Ivy Empowerment Device

Aldi has these for $5. I was skeptical.

What is it?  No, not a springball racket from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It's a battery-operated bug zapper. And damn, does it work.

POP!  Fly carcass. POP!!  Wasp down.  2750V @ 0.028mA -- all on 2 AA batteries. Amazing!
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Remote Possibility

Ever since my aging HTC Incredible 2 stopped being able to recognize its microSD slot a few weeks ago, I have struggled for a reason not to recycle it. I mean it's still a 4" WiFi tablet, but its old, non-upgradeable OS (Android 2.3.4) means my choice in browsers is limited, as are the sites I can use without crashing it. It also still works pretty well for GPS stuff (Glympse, GoogNav, etc.), but no camera and no music makes this thang more paperweight than I would like.

Since my PC is now my all-in-one solitary entertainment center, I decided it'd be nice to be able to control Netflix from the HTC. Enter myRemote, which is a free Android app that will work with Windows Media Center. Now, I'd much rather view Netflix using a browser, since its UI is 10x faster. But being able to lay down to sleep and not have to get back up to navigate to the next episode of Breaking Bad  is not worth nothing.  :)

The app is no-muss, no-fuss. Just launch the server app on the PC (requires latest Java JRE), tell the Android client the server's IP address (which it tells you with a right-click on its system tray widget), and you're off to the races. Me likey.  Plus, if I'm watching Battlestar Galactica  DVDs at bedtime, I won't have to wake up to that annoying menu music playing over and over every 65 seconds.  :)

I wish I could get it to work with my Visio M220VA, but sadly, no.
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