Topic: What I learned today! (Read 195167 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1040 on:** March 25, 2010, 02:51:26 PM »

Yeah, I've wanted a phone with browsing capabilities for a while now, but purely for two reasons:

1) Google Maps (the built-in RIM map application is pretty much just as good).
2) Being able to check competing prices on things when I'm out and about.

Right now my data limit is only 500 Mb (comes with basic plan) and increasing that would push my phone bill from $50 to $70 or more a month, so I'm probably going to stick to the light "necessity" uses anyway.

TA · « **Reply #1041 on:** March 25, 2010, 03:28:13 PM »

I have to say that the Google Maps phone thing is fantastic, and pretty much completely supplanted any need I have had for any GPS thingers. Probably the #1 use to which my phone is put is navigating on Google Maps while piping music through the car speakers.

R^2 · « **Reply #1042 on:** March 25, 2010, 05:42:10 PM »

The Blakberry GM app is horrifically slow and inaccurate. Get ready for a lot of unhelpful "we've pegged your location to somewhere in this 1600-foot radius" stuff. And I live in a crowded metropolitan area, too.

Brentai · « **Reply #1043 on:** March 25, 2010, 05:50:43 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on March 25, 2010, 10:20:01 AM

How to use the browser on my new phone (blackberry). Useful in a pinch I guess, but man what a pain in The ass!

The default Blackberry browser is notoriously useless. I just use the Bolt browser.

You have to, um, browse for it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1044 on:** March 25, 2010, 07:14:00 PM »

Quote from: R^2 on March 25, 2010, 05:42:10 PM

The Blakberry GM app is horrifically slow and inaccurate. Get ready for a lot of unhelpful "we've pegged your location to somewhere in this 1600-foot radius" stuff. And I live in a crowded metropolitan area, too.

Well, I had INTENDED to get Google maps, but the RIM Map utility, which is built right into the main menu, seems to work just as well.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1045 on:** March 29, 2010, 06:50:48 AM »

Sherlock Holmes was a bipolar drug addict!

Thad · « **Reply #1046 on:** March 29, 2010, 08:26:27 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #1047 on:** March 30, 2010, 04:21:49 AM »

Quote

“He told my dad stuff like, ‘Darth Vader was Doctor Doom and the Force is the Source’ and that George Lucas ripped him off. Now this you may not know, and I was only a kid, but I remember learning at the dinner table that my dad was asked to write the music for Star Wars; he turned it down, he said he wasn’t interested. That would’ve been really strange, the lives of us Star Wars fans woulda taken a different turn and that whole score woulda sounded like Tatooine Cantina music.”

It probably would have been a hit with Dr. Who fans....

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1048 on:** March 30, 2010, 10:45:52 AM »

Context?

Edit: Never mind. Thad, master of "hargle brag if your link isn't visible and well defined then it's not good enough for me to click" hid one in an image.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1049 on:** March 30, 2010, 12:18:43 PM »

wth thad that is such goddamn bs

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1050 on:** March 30, 2010, 02:48:35 PM »

ino rite?

Brentai · « **Reply #1051 on:** March 30, 2010, 06:33:56 PM »

That page began with a screen full of words that rhyme with "cialis". I think NoScript tripped over something profoundly retarded.

Lottel · « **Reply #1052 on:** March 31, 2010, 12:47:36 PM »

I grabbed a nearly empty notebook for class today. I had only used it last year when I had swine flu.
I opened to a random page to see that I had written "Frobster" over and over on the page as well as sever strange, stylized lobsters. The rest of the writing for the next few pages were gibberish or real paragraphs that just descended into scribbles.
I must have been sicker than I thought.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1053 on:** April 01, 2010, 06:56:20 PM »

I learned about salvia by watching a friend pee his pants and point to himself while saying "if this is me, I'm going to be so fucking surprised." I hadn't even heard about this crazy stuff before.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1054 on:** April 01, 2010, 08:16:28 PM »

Yeah, getting off of salvia with clean pants is something to be proud of.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1055 on:** April 02, 2010, 06:15:10 AM »

That our nation's capital is apparently shaped like a giant owl!

This apparently has something to do with a nefarious cult that meets at the Bohemian Grove and worships a 40-foot tall, concrete owl! All the rich and powerful gather once a year to worship it! There's also something about a tiny owl on the dollar bill, but I always thought it was a spider.

Büge · « **Reply #1056 on:** April 02, 2010, 06:56:29 AM »

How many licks does it take to get to the centre of a Health Care Reform Bill?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1057 on:** April 02, 2010, 07:00:24 AM »

Owls aren't worthy of worship. They have tiny brains because their eyes are too big.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1058 on:** April 02, 2010, 02:34:59 PM »

medically, women who are less likely to climax during intercourse are more likely to climax during oral sex.

On the other hand, women who have multiple orgasms are more likely to dislike oral sex.

Büge · « **Reply #1059 on:** April 04, 2010, 02:19:36 PM »

I learned what beef tea is. And that it used to be preserved with ammonia!

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