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I love my new Razr Maxx HD

Posted by on November 27, 2012 No comments

You know what else I love? Living in the future. Right now I am about 30,000 feet above the US hurling through the air in defiance of whatever laws of religion/science you can imagine and doing it sitting comfortably while typing on my touch screen computer. A few more thousand feet up and we are talking Star Trek. But all that aside, I wanted
to do a post about the new phone I picked up and have been delayed due to more work
travels. On the plus side, this has given me the chance to really break in my phone.

A few years ago the 4G market for phones started to take off and I got excited about the
prospect of high speed mobile devices. I got myself the Verizon Thunderbolt and really
liked it. That is, for a few months. The biggest complaint about the TB was the battery
life and it lived up to that. Something about the combination of components just drained
the battery to the point that the power user (that would be me) could only get about 4-
5 hours out of it. I know laptops that have better battery life!! Add on to that the blatant
lack of support after only a few months. The TB stopped seeing any of the newer IS
updates and even the MOD community kind of gave up on it.

Soldiering through, I made it almost two years before I just couldn’t stand it any more. The rag tag ROMs I was able to find weren’t stable, I was getting lots of reboots, and was extremely jealous of my wife’s new Razr Maxx by Motorola. She is not a power user and had managed to go for about 3 days without charging at one point. That and it was a world phone. With my work travels and our potential vacation travels (like that trip
to London) I was going to need something better.

With my ear to the Ethernet I heard rumblings of a new Razr Maxx, the HD version. It was pricey, but the screen was amazing, it had NFC (Near Field Communication), and came standard with the ICS OS version. Best of all, one of my co-workers bought one first so I got to get some hands on with it. (Thou shalt not covet thy co-workers Cell Phone). Once we learned he was able to root it with ease, (OWN IT!) I made the decision to get one.

I am two months in now and I love this thing! It’s on par with size of the iPhone 5 (a
little wider and a tad thicker, but barely). The stock home screen was easy and quick
to adjust to so no need to add a new home launcher. I did keep some of my more
favorite apps, like the Magic Screen Unlocker, for a separate lock screen, and the Full
Screen Caller ID. Which is, of course, one of the reasons I love Android, if I don’t like a
functionality, there really is an app to switch it.

With the travel I have been doing, I have been on my phone a lot. Emails, Tweety pages and Facey spaces, etc. It’s almost weird to look down and see that I am at 40% battery life and not panic thinking I only have about 5 minutes left. Due to the ease of use, lately I have found myself using the phone instead of my iPad to check online. (Crazy, I know!).

I am sure that something will come out that is newer and fast and better than my Razr Maxx HD, but I really have a hard time believing that it won’t last me a good 2-3 years.

Now if you will excuse me, I told myself that if I got through this blog post I would read some more of the new Cold Days by Jim Butcher, while I stare out at the fluffy clouds.

The Un-Official DragonCon Post.

Posted by on September 9, 2011 1 comment

Why is this an Un-official post?  Because I am still processing the whole con. Literally. I am working through all the photos I took processing them to improve the shots, doing laundry from the con, cleaning up the house and also taking care of the new Kitties we adopted the day after!
 
So why post? Well, there are a few things I want to touch on because they were So Awesome! (well, one not so awesome)
 

I MET WIL WHEATON!  
No really, this was the highlight of the Con for me!  Anyone who knows me knows that I kind of have a man-crush (Platonic) for Mr. Wheaton.  I made the attempt to meet him at PAX east but apparently, his meemaw died/He was washing his hair/he was dead at the time, and he couldn’t attend.  So when I heard he was going to be at DragonCon I was super excited!  I was dressed in one of the two costumes I brought, Matty Roth from the comic DMZ.  I figured that maybe only 2 people would get the costume but I was not prepared for what happened next.  As I stepped up in line and greeted Wil with the Iron Guard Salute, this happened:
 
Wil: Are you fucking Cosplaying as DMZ??  THAT’S Awesome!
Me: YES!!
Wil: Hey Felicia!  Check out this DMZ Cosplay!  Hold on, I have to get a picture of this and send it to Brian Wood.
Me: That’s AWESOME!

I then handed him two 6-sided dice that I made telling him that I “Got exited and made something” which spawned another round of “That’s Awesome!”  I also got the chance to tell him that during his Father Son bonding over brewing beer, I was doing the same while building a Tardis. (That’s Awesome, round 4)  He signed a picture of himself collating paper and we went on our way.  I was giggling for the rest of the day.

Now, the worst experience of the con, sadly, was my one with William Shatner.  On my way through the Walk of Fame area, I stopped at the booth for WS and they had mentioned that he would be back in 30 min.  There was no line so I figured “I can wait 30 min!”  I Happily bought my photo ticket ($75!!!!), picked out my photo (Only Kirk photos, no S My dad says or Denny Crane), and got in line.  30 min turned into 45, then an hour, then longer and longer.  The folks at the booth were trying to assure us that he was on his way down.  It was nearing 5pm and we knew he had a panel at 5:30pm.  (I got in line at 3:30pm).  When he finally showed up, the line herders asked if I would let a woman in a wheelchair in front of me, which I had no problem with. (navigating the con in a wheel chair is tough, trust me on this.)  She got her autograph and was working on backing out of the area, the handler reached out for my photo and handed it to WS as I got out of the way.  When I got back up to the counter, the Photo was signed and I was being shuttled away without barely a glance from WS.  I did manage to eek out a “It was very…er..honor” and got a half hearted fist bump before they moved on to the next guy.

Never in all of my conventions and Autograph collecting have I ever been treated like a sheep.  It has always been my experience that I am paying the $20+ not for the autograph or the photo, but for the experience of getting 1-2 minutes of time with an actor/author/artist that I genuinely admire enough that I want to Pay for that moment.  I don’t do this to collect signatures.  I do this because I LIKE these people and want to express how much I appreciate and support their work.  If I wanted just a photo with a signature on it, I could have bought one in the dealers room! (and probably paid less.)  I have heard that WS is kind of a dick when it comes to conventions, but I really want to believe that maybe he was just being rushed by con handlers, or was having a bad day and doesn’t normally treat fans this way.  I can hope right?

The rest of the con was outstanding.  Pictures will be coming along soon as well as maybe a real after action report.  I <3 everyone I hung out with there!!