By Thomas Gallant
iTunes > iPod Classic > iPod Classic with Video > iPod Nano > iPod Shuffle > Macbook Pro > Airport Express > iMac > iPod Touch > Apple TV > iPad > iPhone > Airport Extreme
Since sometime around 2004, Apple has been slowly creeping its way in to my collection of computer and entertainment hardware. Unlike Adam, I haven’t been a lifelong fan and perhaps that’s why he is more creative than me. I was a late convert to OS X because I clung to the idea of being able to diagnose and “improve” my Windows machine. Then, one day I realized how much easier life would be if I started buying shit that just worked. I haven’t looked back since.
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By Thomas Gallant
For both of you wondering why it’s been so long since I’ve written (hint: it isn’t because I’ve been banging Adam’s neice girlfriend), it’s mostly due to the fact that I’ve spent little time at my computer in the past few weeks. It’s true, my computer has seen as much of me as Sarah Palin has seen of Russia from her backyard.
I could ramble on about the various weddings and other events I’ve been to in July, but who wants to read about that? What I’d like to do is share some of the things I’ve seen people do while driving. Things that don’t seem to cause the law-creating outrage that talking or texting do. I’m guilty of at least some of these myself:
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By Thomas Gallant
The common courtesy of ending a conversation with “goodbye” is quickly fading. There are several culprits but the bottom line is that we just don’t seem to give a shit anymore. The relationship of speaking and typing has gone completely upside down and doesn’t seem to be reversing. The main causes for this that I see are:
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By Thomas Gallant
The way life used to work, the only time you got free extra credit was getting your name right on the SATs. While I’m hesitant to use the term “back in my day” as it reminds me of people that have grey hair growing out of their nostrils and ears, it would appear that the current generation of youngsters (aka: my friend’s kids) are just given too much to be happy about.
Now, I’ve got plenty of friends that still live to play Mortal Kombat and admit that ours is the video game generation that is compounding the errors of our youth in to our own offspring, but at the rate we’re going these kids are going to want a fucking congratulatory banquet after successfully executing their parents’ funerals. I think the benefits of a good education and extra curricular activities are obvious, but do we have to pin a medal on a kid every time he wipes his ass?
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By Thomas Gallant
It was a brutal winter here in the Northeast US. Nary a week went by without a new threat of another foot of snow blanketing the ground; shutting down schools, clearing out supermarket shelves, keeping plows on landscaping trucks, and causing mass yuppie hysteria. Thankfully, winter is behind us and it’s time to start wearing white instead of shoveling it.
Despite the humidity, triple-digit temperatures, high electric bills, and long lines for the latest iPhone, the days between Memorial Day and Columbus Day are my favorite time of year. It’s time to break out the Toys of Summer and have some serious fun. Here are a few ways I like to take advantage of the sunshine season.
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By Thomas Gallant
About this time a week ago, I was waking up after having knee surgery. About the only thing I can remember from the hospital is apologizing to the nurse as she rolled me to the recovery room for “being so chatty when I’m shitfaced.” They sent me home with 40 Percocet to get through the week. Forty. Let’s just say I have some extra.
I had cleared my calendar for the next few days of all operating of heavy machinery, taking showers, and having sensible conversations. This sounded like a perfect opportunity to have a chat with the explosive Rob Riggle. If you don’t recognize Riggle from the above picture or his name alone, perhaps the words “Catalina Wine Mixer” will help jog your memory. If not, I’m sure he’d be happy to have you tased IN THE FACE. For more on what I think I remember from our conversation about what else Rob is working on, keep reading after the jump.
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By Thomas Gallant
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Winklevoss twins have had their latest lawsuit shot down. Take a look at the headlines and you’ll be sure to see that they were not able to get a revised settlement out of Facebook. Take an even closer look and you will see the stirring angry mob in the comments section of just about every article out there (and maybe this one by the time I’m done) letting fly their spiteful agreement with the courts and providing armchair suggestions on why the Twinklevii got more than they deserved.
I get the lack of sympathy, I really do. These guys are as blue-blood pedigree as it gets: Brunswick Academy > Harvard > Olympics > Oxford, likely with a hefty trust fund to boot. From what I hear, they aren’t bad looking either. There is no reason to feel sorry for them. However, in the case against Facebook I tend to side with their view.
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By Thomas Gallant
I’m not Perez Hilton. I’m not Joan Rivers. I don’t envy either one nor do I pay much attention to them. That said, if I may make one comment on the Oscars last night, it’s that Reese Witherspoon was the one thing I remembered when I woke up this morning.
I didn’t watch the whole show, and certainly not the red carpet bonanza. I simply came home from playing basketball and turned on the Academy Awards just long enough to catch Ms. Witherspoon take the stage to present an award to Christian Bale. I was passed out before the King’s Speech took home some of the top honors of the night.
So Reese, here’s to keeping it classy. That is all.
TG
By Thomas Gallant
Have you ever been in a situation and thought that if you could get through it, you could accomplish just about anything? That it was the single most difficult thing you have ever done, something that you’d be impressed by seeing repeated by one of your friends? Moments like these are different for everybody as they can either lead to inspiration or pure exhaustion. Kayak for a Cause is kind of like that, two guys got challenged to do something, did it, and it turned in to a big annual charity event where thousands of people have since followed suit.
As a rower, I’ve come across plenty of determined people willing to do something that most people wouldn’t consider. Whether it be the 25k bridge to bridge race on the Hudson River, where the challenge is more related to keeping your boat afloat than rowing the actual distance, to my friend Paul Ridley that rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Up until yesterday, Paul may have been the single most insane endurance athlete I’d met.
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