Move Me 


Ditched the open source world for an official sony Move Me move interface. It is pretty sweet! Didnt take much time to get the next VI Fit game ported..

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The Pub n Sub 


One of the best things about spring is to take a short scooter ride to the pub n sub and pick up subs. I got a number one nicci got a veggie, which happens to be "number V". Not sure if that is a v as in the letter v or v as in 5? Oh well they taste great!

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First scooter ride of the year! 


A few years ago I tried to ride my scooter year round, but that was probably pretty stupid. Spending all day at work thawing out just in time to get back on and freeze my way home was not fun. First ride went great! Started right up. Dead battery though..

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Tongue Oil 


Nicci and I got tasked with putting tung oil on the new taiko stands. We need to find this stuff and put 4 coats on it. Has to be done within one week!

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Exopc Slate 


Picked up one of these the other day. Lots of good, and some bad. Running windows 7, you get all the great features you expect from a full blown OS in a tablet. The virtual keyboard is better than the ipad. You can scale it to any size you want, and have the ability to move it around the screen to wherever you want. Fired up project 64 with fzerox to test it out. A little glitchy when there were a bunch of cars around, but it was playable. The screen is great with a regular 1366x768 resolution as opposed to whatever the ipad has. VLC works great and it is a snap to transfer media files to it. No need for itunes!

Web Browsing is good, however touch scrolling only works in IE so you really need to use IE. I connected a ps3 controller using Motion Joy and that works just great! I havent tried the hdmi out yet. Couldnt get the ps3 controller to sync over bluetooth, but I didnt really try that hard.

Skype works great with the built in web cam. Cant wait to try it running a hotspot on my android phone

The bad:

Battery life. The ipad gets charged like once a week. The slate was out of juice within 2 hours.
Sound: This has a fan. Who wants a fan running the entire time it is on. Ipad is much quieter
Apps: The fancy app store is not present, however with running windows 7 that isnt that much of a problem. Most emulators will work and its a snap to transfer files to it.

Is it good enough to replace the ipad?
Nope. Not with the battery life it currently has. Plus, every laptop I have had has had the fan fail and then it was pretty much worthless. When this fan fails it will be sent to the trash.

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