Finding a Gem: Close Up the Honky Tonks
For music buffs like myself, there are days when you’ll make a find at the record shop that makes you want to squeal like a school girl. Yesterday was one of those days for me. While browsing through...
View ArticleMyths About Android Updates on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus
If there’s anything that drives me up the wall in the Nexus community, it’s people who spout nonsense about the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. I feel like this post is important enough that if I didn’t do it,...
View ArticleQuicksilver Messenger Service: 2012 Culture Factory Reissues
Quicksilver Messenger Service is, sadly, a band that has been sentenced to obscurity. These days they are virtually unknown outside music buff circles. If you are familiar with the band’s catalog,...
View ArticleYear in Review: Top Ten Albums of 2012
I’ve been doing these lists since 2001, so you’d figure this would be a piece of cake by now, right? Normally, these are fairly easy to do, but 2012 has been such an amazing year for music, I really...
View ArticleUsing a Self-Powered External Hard Drive with a Wii U
For those of us who own a Wii U and download a lot of games, both internal storage options are pretty underwhelming. The Problem The Wii U comes in two basic flavors. You have the basic set which comes...
View ArticleVideo Game Review: ZombiU
ZombiU, in addition to being one of the very few Wii U launch titles that isn’t a port from another system, is old-school survival horror at its finest. The Story The story behind ZombiU is pretty...
View ArticleAndroid Gaming Consoles: A Lesson in Irrelevance
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about Ouya, a new Android gaming console that is expected to see release in 2013. There was an article yesterday on several Android outlets talking about how Ouya,...
View ArticleThe Motorola Xoom – A Retrospective
Now that both the WiFi-only and Verizon Xoom variants have received their last software updates from Google, I feel it is the appropriate time to write a retrospective of what is, without a doubt, my...
View ArticleAndroid 4.4/KitKat To Launch Soon
Google announced today that a new version of Android is upon us. It will be Android 4.4 and the moniker is KitKat. My first question became “who paid who for the pleasure of this deal?” My guess is...
View ArticleThe Electric Prunes: Psychedelic Icons
To those who are unfamiliar with 1960s psychedelic rock, the Electric Prunes are complete unknowns. For those of us who love the genre however, these guys are icons. Their acidic guitar riffs, killer...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Lift (1998)
One day years ago I was in Tower Records, with $20 burning a hole in my pocket, engaging in my favorite pastime – browsing the vinyl bins. In the late 1990s, the vinyl renaissance hadn’t yet happened,...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2012
It’s Record Store Day today. Quit being a bitch and go pay for your music for once in your life. Support artists and your local record shops!!
View ArticleEpic Mickey and Project Invade
As an Instagram project, I have decided to visit all 100 counties in North Carolina and photograph some kind of object in front of the county seat building. This will probably take me all summer and...
View ArticleHoly Shit: My Experience With the New Beach Boys Album
I am an enormous Beach Boys fan That said, their 50th anniversary reunion tour and subsequent new album generated about as much interest for me as a lesbian in a penis factory. I never bothered to look...
View ArticleRe-evaluating the Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Editions
It’s time for me to eat crow. When the Google Play Editions of the Galaxy S4 and HTC One were announced, I was the first to jump on the hater wagon when it came to updates. As expected, the updates...
View ArticleAndroid Reference Devices Through the Years
Since we are on the cusp of yet another Nexus device launch, I thought this would be a good time to show a list of the primary reference devices that Google has used to showcase stock Android in pure...
View ArticleCan We All Just Shut Up About the Google Experience Launcher?
One of the biggest topics of the last few weeks, since the launch of Android 4.4/KitKat, has been the fact that the new launcher, dubbed the Google Experience Launcher or GEL, is not being included on...
View ArticleNo, Verizon Is Not Delaying Your Nexus 7 LTE Update
Update: Google has now started rolling out Android 4.4.3 to the N7 LTE, but 4.4.4 is still MIA. Yeah. I said it. I’m so sick of reading people who are talking about this. This is a matter of the...
View ArticleA Clarification of Why I Don’t List Certain Known Firmware Builds
At least once or twice a month, I get an email from someone asking me something to the effect of “Hey Bro. Great site, but why don’t you list firmware build X for this or that device? There are OTAs...
View ArticleNexus 6 Firmware Pages Split Into Seven Sub-Pages By Carrier/Region
In order to make things less confusing, I have broken the Nexus 6 firmware listing up into smaller sub pages. There is one for each US carrier, plus one for Oceania and a “catch all” International page...
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