Yup. Everyone thought in 2001 that I was insane to put everything I had into AAPL after the "iLamp" iMac announcement. 7 years later in 2008 it made for a substantial down payment on my home, and I still have a hell of a large amount of money sitting in AAPL. I also bought about $5k of Citibank bank when the…

Quick follow-up for those who are confused by Straight Talk's coverage maps, what David is using is their "Bring your own phone" service:

Nice! Thanks for the testimonial! We previously were somewhat happy AT&T customers, but I switched my daughter and wife to Sprint to save some money after I needed to get a Verizon iPhone 4 for coverage holes, holes which I couldn't tolerate due to using it for consulting work.

Some will let you roam, that's my wife's biggest concern. Cricket offers a $55/mo unlimited everything Smartphone plan, and if you go outside of their coverage it's 25 cents a minute to roam.

How timely, did you read my mind again? Right now at home we're paying Sprint around $160 for two smartphones - one for my wife and one for my daughter. Thing is, though, neither one of them really need a smartphone. My wife has a iPhone 4 she really likes and my daughter has a BlackBerry Curve 3G she really likes.…

Well sombitch, I'm totally going to do this to my wife's horrible, awful, terrible Chrysler minivan. Despite a new EGR and regular excellent maintenance to that POS (Mobil 1! K&N Filters! Fuck that van!), the check engine is constantly on due to a EGR fail.

And I completely forgot the key part - after talking with King Solenoid on the phone last night - wherein the disconnection of cables and reconnection occurred. Because if you disconnected them the car had no power and obviously the engine died.

I should have added instead of just posting, my Nexus S 4G is actually just about spot-on. Supposedly the screen size is the same as the EVO, it just feels much better due to the curved display and the curved body. I have to give Sammy credit on that one.

HATERS GOONA HATE!

I appreciate big screens and all.. but that's why I have a tablet. I personally think the iPhone 4 hit it spot-on size wise, and while some of the new phones are absolutely gorgeous (I'm looking at you, Galaxy Nexus) they're also pretty damn big!

I was making out with my then-girlfriend when I was 18, and two of my friends had also brought their then-girlfriends to the same park. With then-girlfriend in the bushes I suddenly hear my car start cranking over.

Hear hear. I'm the first the flame Android OEM's for their.. "lack of support and updates" to their.. "custom skins over Android", but that's a whole different topic entirely. As you well stated, the above is a terrible infograph. What if all those devices ran stock Android 2.3 or 4.0? Yup, the app would work just…

Figure the same ballpark as current. So.. $1000-1200. Which is damn reasonable considering what it is.

Bingo. I finally gave in and went to panniers when I upgraded from the T43p to the T61p, the '61 being a 15 and I just couldn't lug all that on my back. Even my MBP, which is the newest model, probably weighs as much as the T61 did and there's just no way that's going on my back. Granted it's a bit of a nice…

Dang that Discoverer sure is close. The outside lug angle is what does it, but there's still more lug distance on the tires on the one pictured - maybe.

I've been considering an Air for my "carry with me everywhere" laptop after realizing that my 15in Pro is just too. damn. heavy. I'm a bike commuter and carry a laptop just about everywhere, but man this thing is a monster.

+1000. Also the tires, don't forget those. They are definitely a M/T tread judging by the large blocks, and the spacing between the blocks on the side and front. They are potentially pretty well worn, but that's hard to tell.

I'll be honest here, I have a BlackBerry Curve 8330 sitting in front of me that I'm considering swapping my Nexus S 4G for. Yes - the original Curve with the whopping 230mhz CPU. No real browser to speak of. No huge app support. It makes and receives calls, and does a great job messaging.

I'm going to echo the ask the IT folks suggestion, more than likely yes. If no, there's a good reason - and just run with it. Likely there is a regulatory reason why not to, or some other reason that they don't like just as much as you don't. If it's locked down like that, and they are still using BlackBerry I'm…

I have 0 tolerance for crappy network gear as that's one of the things I do/did for a living. Right now I'm using a Netgear WNDR37000 v2 and I beat the hell out of it, and it keeps coming back for more. We have in our house of 5 people easily 3-4 devices active at any given time, and it gives us no grief. I can…