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Welcome to my Blog. Please feel free to comment.

Hey everyone, I'm Jacob. My main purpose here is to blog and become a writer for lockergnome. If i don't that's okay as long as i can share my thoughts. I am here to talk about anything from technology to cars. Please check out my discussions, blogs, and videos.
My youtube account is www.youtube.com/techforthought
PLEASE NEVER EVER PUT LABELS ON PEOPLE. IT IS SO WRONG. I MEAN YEAH WE CAN SEE PEOPLE AS CHINESE, ASIAN, OR LATIN, CANADIAN, AMERICAN, JEWISH, ETC. BUT NEVER EVER JUDGE THE PERSON BY THAT. WHY WOULD YOU. IF YOU DO I AM UNFORTUNATELY GOING TO HAVE TO TELL YOU SIR/MADAM THAT YOU ARE A MORON :)

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Everyone has a personal computing preference. I use mac, pcs and i just got Ubuntu Linux 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" and will soon be trying that. Don't forget to be accepting of others computing preferences.

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Steve Jobs: Micro Managing
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Christopher Aug 26.

UPS Pisses me off, what about you?

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Tweet counter at the bottome of my blog posts??

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Tweet counter at the bottome of my blog posts??
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Iphone V.S. the Androids Channeling the Mac V.S. PC War

All i have been hearing lately is how the iphone has severe problems and apple is not addressing them. Usually following this "rant", i hear something about an Android Operating System based Phone. How people love the phone, how its so easy to use, how there are so many applications for it. While those claims may or may not be true they seem a lot like the Mac v.s. PC wars claims. The mass use of the Android operating system on several different devices make it just like the "windows" of… Continue

Posted on November 5, 2009 at 5:41pm — 1 Comment

AT&T Trips over themselves.

I saw the ad for the Garmin Nuvi phone last week. I was impressed. It seem like a pretty cool device. But the first thought in my head was that their 3G was stretched to the max with all the Iphones. Now if this is true, then how can the nuvi phone, which obviously needs 3G, be able to work. They claimed that adding the MMS to Iphone was bad enough for the network, so how will this possibly help the problem. I Can't help but think that AT&T clomped*

In my family, clomped means screwing y… Continue

Posted on October 19, 2009 at 12:34pm —

Buffalo, a rust belt city? I think not.

The inclusion of buffalo as a rust belt city has bothered me for several years. Yes it is in the rust belt and yes it has experienced decline since its heyday's, however it is not in a decline like the likes of Detroit or Cleveland. It is extremely ignorant of writers to think that buffalo is in a never ending spiral. These writers only look at the numbers.

When you live in those cities, you begin to understand in a different way. Buffalo is in fact as much alive as it was several years ago. Wh… Continue

Posted on October 3, 2009 at 6:08pm — 2 Comments

Rules of thumb: Buying Books

Weather it be an Ivy League College or just a High School, books are rather expensive. We have all been there and all had that same thought go through our mind, "50 dollars for that small paperback, the rotten$!$#&!@)(*&^#)!@^#! book seller". We all cussed the school or bookseller once. However, there is a solution to our problem, although obvious to the geek. You never really have to pay full price for anything. Ebay is a perfect place t… Continue

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 6:24pm — 1 Comment

Post Bankruptcy General Motors:Mistakes and Problems

I am worried about post bankruptcy GM for several factors. The first mistake was made during bankruptcy pretending. The company kept Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC. I can see the reasoning behind keeping Cadillac, for it is a valued name plate and GM wouldn't really be GM with out it. I can see the reasoning behind keeping Chevrolet, it is a well selling brand but only because a lot of focus is put on Chevy rather then other brands (marketing, new line ups, etc.) Buick is very debatable. Bui… Continue

Posted on July 25, 2009 at 12:30pm — 4 Comments

Check out this musician

This kid has some talent. At least i think. Comment with your thoughts

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Posted on July 18, 2009 at 8:59am —

Slacker Radio: Give it a Try and see how it kills pandora

Have you ever heard of slacker radio??? If you haven't you are really missing out on something. This website is an internet radio site. But its so much more than that. First step is to create your free account. I know that many of you immediately sigh and go, "Great Another Account to… Continue

Posted on July 16, 2009 at 1:00pm —

Memorial Day With an Ibook!!!!

I just have to love laptops. How can't you. It is 70 degrees were i live and i refuse to sit on a desktop. There is nothing like a nice blanket, some sun, and a mac laptop. I am currently on my lawn and blogging. And not just thanks to my ibook but to my linksys wireless N router. Its great!! I can go all over my 1 acre lot and still have 5 bars. So my question is, What's your excuse?? Everyone needs a laptop. Especially on this beautiful memorial day!!! Why not get one. Whether it be a used one… Continue

Posted on May 25, 2009 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Why label all things??????

I can not live without organization. I love labels and boxes for this. However, labels on people are unexceptable. I honestly don't care if your gay if you are latin, etc... Why does it matter. For example, just because Adam Lambert is Artsey, doesnt mean he is gay. Why??? Honestly tell me why. Does it help. Is it that hard to look at a Homosexual person and treat them as an equal. I just do not get it. We truly need to reexamine ourselves and look to see what matters. It just does not matter. E… Continue

Posted on May 19, 2009 at 6:53pm — 3 Comments

Youtube and the Ten minute shennanigans

I cant stand it.... I try to upload a video and it just tells me its to long.. Thats after four hours for one twelve minute video... So know i have to break it up just so i can post a twelve minute video...I think that we need to speak out and say that it should be a fifteen minute limit... I am just really pissed off at them..I know that it has been in effect for awhile but it is just so damn annoying

Posted on May 9, 2009 at 12:00pm —

Profile Information

What kind of geek are you?

I love upgrading, taking apart and getting new hardware. I also love music

Why do you consider yourself a geek?

I love computers and i am an inventor. I also love to see and understand how stuff works.

How did you find out about our Geek community?

youtube and live.pirillo.com

What are your "geeky equipment" specs?

I own a MPC Desktop, a Dell Inspiron 8200, a compaq armada M300, an ibook G4, an imac G3 (333mhz), and a compaq presario 5000 series. I have no NO LCD Monitor (siffle, sniffle).

What do you want to be when you grow up?

CEO and chairman of my privately held company

What makes you laugh?

Alot of things but everyone has different humors. Robin Williams, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard

What is the thing in life you treasure most?

My Life, my family, me personally, my dogs

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?

Try to talk to my class about running windows XP in emulation on a Mac. The group can't even turn on a printer.......well a good chunk of them can't

What do you do to entertain yourself?

Computers and youtube, TV , radio, music, books

Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?

I love almost all types of music, just see my playlist for some favorites.
I like the whole harry potter books and series. It is just something about that world in the book that is cool. I really like the big bang theory on CBS. Great Show...probably because i am like all four of those guys rolled into one. Shout out to anyone from my school....you know who you are..I want to learn to snowboard

What's your Web site / blog address?

http://www.youtube.com/techforthought

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reaper commented on Jacob's blog post 'Iphone V.S. the Androids Channeling the Mac V.S. PC War'

well the android os is linux based, whereas osx is unix based.........war negated

November 5

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Iphone V.S. the Androids Channeling the Mac V.S. PC War

November 5

Live your life like its Golden Y'ALL

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DogReader and Jacob are now friends

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DogReader left a comment for Jacob

October 19

Jacob joined Joshua Warren's group

RC Enthusiasts

For all RC Enthusiasts come here! join! and discuss! whether you own and are hooked on RC cars!, helicopters or 4x4's! this is the place for it!

October 19

Jacob commented on Jacob's blog post 'Buffalo, a rust belt city? I think not.'

How can you honestly say that. Again i call to the fact that yes we have lost numbers but in no way is the city in as bad of a shape as cleveland or detroit. There's open real estate because even through this "recession" we have still been building…

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AT&T Trips over themselves.

October 19

Bit Byter commented on Jacob's blog post 'Buffalo, a rust belt city? I think not.'

Yea, beef on weck. Yea, Bailey's. Yea, chicken wings. Yea, Frank and Mary's Anchor bar. Yea, Sabres. ...but the fact remains that Buffalo used to be eighth in population for cities and is now 63rd. Since 1950, it has lost half of its population mos…

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Buffalo, a rust belt city? I think not.

October 3

I wanna blog and become a blogger at lockergnome. Check out my blogs :D

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Steve Jobs: Micro Managing

I just watched this video talking about Steve's return to apple. What are your thoughts. I believe he has every right to micromanage. After his sickness, he is probably wanting to make sure he can roll out good quality products before the Christmas…

August 25

Jacob replied to Ezio Auditore De Firenze's discussion 'UPS Pisses me off, what about you?'

HAHAHa. What was it that it was 65 pounds

August 14

Jacob and Ezio Auditore De Firenze are now friends

August 8

Brian Buckley commented on Jacob's blog post 'Rules of thumb: Buying Books'

my book was $300

August 8

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At 12:45pm on October 19, 2009, DogReader said…: thanks for the "add"!

At 3:05am on June 12, 2009, randalltrini said…: Hey Jacob,

I used a screen grab from my yahoo avatar profile. I can't remember which app I used at the time (I've changed so many of them), but you can use my current favorite "du jour" - pixlr, which a plugin for firefox that allows you to capture any part of a screen or even the entire page. Save as a jpg pr png to your local hard drive and use your favourite editor to crop as you wish.
Careful, you may get some pixelation if you crop/zoom to much.