cool looking hand dryer by Dyson

saw this Great America last week, have it in office now. awesome

Thoughts and wishes on Android...

My Android G1 sucks a$$ today. 90% of the time when I tried to do something, it would be busying doing sync in the 'background.' But the whole thing just slowed to a halt, that I feel like I am the background task, deprioritized.

I started to wonder why Android can suck like this. Essentially it's a computer with a 528MHz processor and about 128MB of RAM and some flash drive space (got a 8GB SD card in it). 10 years back, this is probably one of the better computer on the lot, and I remember having a similar system and I could play Grim Fandango, Crusader, Wing Commander 4, Need For Speed 2, and Quake 2 on it. Not too shabby at all.

So why this computer can't handle the current demand now? Touchscreen shouldn't be an issue, it's really just an extra simple channel (IRQ?) for the CPU bus to handle the event. Animation? come on, if I could play all those games, why not on this platform? My guess is that the only thing is probably just the cellular signal, battery handling, and data syncing that could be costing heavier performance issues.

So if the platform can have a terrific way to handle cellular signal, battery, and data syncing while not losing a whole lot of CPU/memory resource, then we can have a much better experience. And perhaps one day, we can play the next Bioshock on Android? I'd love to see that day come.

Religious book v.s. techy book...

Two nights in a row, I had the option to read either 'Head First Java' or 'The Reason for God - Belief in an Age of Skepticism' and both nights I chose to read the latter. Not sure why I do that, perhaps I am feeling a bit guilty that this book has been sitting on my bedside for longer than a year now and I've never read over 100 pages of it (total < 300 pages) Or maybe I am just a bit spiritual?

cyrus the gangsta going for a roadtrip

meek park visiting. 1st try at least

Tires for Celica

Just some random note I made when shopping around for tires for our 1990 Celica GT. Tire type is 185/65 R14 86H (14 inches)

big-o - john

$360 including work and balancing

lester's - joey

$321 work and balacing (need to get the tires, tomorrow)

larry's - saul

$320 50000 miles, free flat repair and rotation during life of tires

1:30 including everything

good year - Sy tires - Matt

$415.70

wheel work chris

$380 80000 miles - yokahama

$301 40000 miles -

kristie 的淋巴腺炎

在我們全家大病一場後一個月 Kristie又感染了淋巴腺炎。我還不知道淋巴腺也會發炎呢。不過看來這病徵也滿痛苦的，搞得kristie脖子痛 吞嚥時也會痛 連帶著又發燒，忽冷忽熱 弄的一整天她都在頭痛。