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Too Bling For Germany: Baywatch Couples 100k A Month Life
Dear. God. No…
(atleast they give to charity)
https://ca.screen.yahoo.com/too-bling-germany-baywatch-couples-104043142.html?format=embed
Brand Loyalty #iChooseBlackBerry
I recently read a blog post on brand loyalty. It was, as all blog posts are, an opinion piece. As such, you can certainly agree or disagree but you cannot determine that the article is incorrect because it’s someone’s opinion and everyone has a right to one. The gist of the post was that being loyal to one brand makes you a slave to the brand as opposed to being open to other brands puts the control back in your lap… Ok sure.. or maybe it just makes you a slave to many… and a very tired one at that! Lol.
I’m not a slave to anyone. Certainly I am no slave to BlackBerry. #iChooseBlackBerry because I want to. Nobody held a gun to my head and certainly I don’t do it because I am a blind follower.
My love for BlackBerry started, truth be told, in a very superficial way. I saw the #bold #9900 and fell in love with the look. Yes, I was and still am superficial that way. I can safely (and correctly) write that BlackBerry phones are the best looking phones out there. Hands down. Added to their great look is the quality behind it. Give me a BlackBerry phone that didn’t or doesn’t ooze quality. You’d be very hard pressed to find one.
I’m not going to invest any time writing about the OS in great detail… I think like any OS out there it has its pros and cons… but I can say through experience that transitioning from OS7 to BB10 for me was not at all traumatic or difficult. I think the BB10 OS is very intuitive and the flow is amazing. Any person saying otherwise didn’t give the OS a chance. impossible.
So being that I am loyal to BlackBerry does it mean that I am missing out on anything? Why not open my eyes to other OSs? Am I afraid that if I try another platform I may like it more? Well, I am not too worried about that. I get to experience first hand the #iPhone because my daughter has one. She is the only one in our household that isn’t BlackBerry.. and no, I haven’t disowned her ;). There is nothing about the phone or the OS that intrigues me. I also have friends that are android users and so I have played with the phones and granted not for long #Android too doesn’t intrigue me much. The other major issue with #Android that gets to me is that I just don’t like the interface. I just don’t find it nice and I also don’t find that it flows nicely. I find it hard to navigate. In fairness though my opinion of android is based on very little hands on time and a lot of video watching. Therefore I don’t know for sure if i’d take to it if I spent quality time with it. So now that begs the question… since I am a BlackBerry supporter first and foremost.. if BB10 goes away will I go iOS or Android? Today I am still in the camp that believes that BB10 isn’t going anywhere. I will continue to ride the BB10 ride. If at some point in the future BlackBerry takes a different path and decides BB10 will go away then because I am a BlackBerry guy, I will in fact choose #Android but an #Android that is produced by BlackBerry. Why? Because #iChooseBlackBerry. Plain and simple.
What Really Grinds My Gears…
You know what really grinds my gears? People who look down at you and seem to have all these rights you somehow aren’t allowed to have as well.. explain to me why you can come out attack someone (whether verbally or through email) and if any resistance and fight back of any kind is shown you cry foul and accuse said person of being defensive ? How ridiculous is that nonsense ! If you attack me, I have every right to attack back.. taking the high road at times is not possible. Respect is a two way street.
What Really Grinds My Gears!!
I think from time to time I will write one of these ‘you know what really grinds my gears’ posts. If Peter Griffin can do it, well so can I.
So you know what really grinds my gears? The manipulation that occurs in reporting the news. Sure it’s nothing new but it’s incredible how rampant it is now just to get in ratings or to generally misinform.. i’ll just stick to tech for this one post.. a couple days ago… I am watching the news and the tech segment had the guy talk about how apple servers were brought down by the sheer amount of download requests for iOS9… in the same breath he talks about a gaff Microsoft made by making an update that was meant for certain phone models available to all phones which caused many phones to crash. Do you see the difference in the reporting? Has #Apple not had its share of mishaps thus far with iOS9? Of course it has. Do u remember ‘antennagate’ when it was the end user that was holding the phone incorrectly ? This morning on another news show their tech guy was playing down the malware in the app store but at the same his explanation of what this malware can do was not very promising. So which is it? Worry? Or not. I don’t think i’ve seen or heard anything come out of #Apple. dead silence… even from local boy @iMore.
Then u have this guy..
Say what? The few issues that a some people might have? Hahaha.. u do know that the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem.
The BackBerry Slider: Ohhhh the emotions!!!
I will start off my post by writing that I am a hard-core blackberry guy. Hard core. I should add that I am a huge fan of the keyboard variants of the BlackBerry. I fell in love with BlackBerry when I first laid my eyes on the #bold #9900. Love at first sight.
This BlackBerry #slider though. My god… the emotions it has evoked with the community is unbelievable. On the one hand it’s fantastic because it keeps BlackBerry in the news and this time quite frankly for all the right reasons… as opposed to being trashed all the time as it was not too long ago. On the other hand it also brings out the nonsense as well.
Since the early days of rumors and leaks it has gone from photoshop, android runtime, hybrid, dual, and full fledged android. The recent leaks show nothing but #android. So as someone tweeted a while back if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck.. Some in the BlackBerry community are coming to terms with this and atleast try to reason out why this has to happen… others in the BlackBerry community are beside themselves and sound like the world is coming to an end. Like ‘where is the closest bridge so I can just jump off’ kinda reaction. Two extremes it seems.. nothing in-between. You then have these bloggers that fuel the fire with catch tag lines or whatever just to get traffic going on their site… which is pathetic.. all these bloggers that seem to be ‘in the know’ I think just know zero. just the other day I watched a couple of videos.. I won’t name names but one guy goes on about how BlackBerry abandoned their loyal fanbase and that just because it says BlackBerry on the phone it doesn’t make it a BlackBerry. That it’s an android, period. He went on with some tweets as well that BlackBerry must really be doing bad financially if they had to go to another OS to try to survive.. a company making acquisitions clearly is not doing well financially. Makes sense. The issue with this guy is that he seems to go where the wind blows.. says or tweets things just to stir shit.. he’s entitled to his opinion but I think he knows very little. The other video I watched was atleast done with some intelligence. I’ll leave it at that because there really isn’t much to add to it.
Anyway, so is it a BlackBerry Android or an Android BlackBerry ? Who the hell cares?
I won’t go on any rant but here’s my ‘Joe dirt’ take on this. BlackBerry is a company. It’s a business. John Chen needs to look at the big picture… and there IS a bigger picture..I think he’s 2 steps ahead of everyone else with his thinking. Anyone not realizing that is being short sighted. I find It incredibly hard to believe that this man will abandon the loyal hard core fanbase.. that he will abandon BB10 for just android. It doesn’t make sense at all. There have been a few times when I thought that there could be some trolling as well included in all this ‘vision’. Lol…
Is Chen counting on the android #Slider to do well? Yes he is. Will it do well? Based on the frenzy it has caused online thus far I will say a resounding YES!!! I mean for god’s sake people are salivating over it. That’s great news for BlackBerry. Will I buy one? no. I am not a fan of android. Do I think BB10 is dead? No it’s not. Funny enough I saw some recent tweets out there with supposed specs showing #Venice running 10.4 or a flavor of 10.3.2. More fiction? Who knows. What I do know is that I can’t wait for November when this #slider makes its presence not because I want one but rather because once and for all we can all move on with our lives :). In the meantime as I continue to watch this story unfold mainly on twitter and certain blogs I follow it amazes me to see the diversity. You have those that continue to keep it classy and then you have the others. I know that twitter only allows for 140 chars but it grinds my gears when certain folk (and you know who you are) tweet out some vague tease just so they can get a reaction. Sad. Pretty desperate for attention eh? In the end support whatever platform you want. We are all entitled but for the love of Jesus show some conviction and stick to something.. choose a side… and hey if one day you feel the other side of the fence looks better go for IT but don’t shit on the side you originally were on.
#teamblackberry #classic #blackberryrocks #blackberry #slider #BB104ever
This ‘Don’t Judge Me Challenge’
I know that I am definitely late to this party. Just recently my daughter showed me this #dontjudgechallenge #dontjudgemechallenge account on #instagram. The reason being that there were familiar faces that took ‘the challenge ‘. I seriously don’t get it. What’s the purpose? What is a person taking this challenge really trying to say? Don’t judge someone just on their looks? Is that it? So u start off by making yourself ‘ugly’ and then bammmm you’re gorgeous!! Maybe it’s just me but I think the message is pretty clear. Pretty. Clear.
It’s nonsense. Teaching kids wrong values.
#ego #narcissistic #superficial #narcissism #wrongvalues
What people think of BlackBerry users…
Another great video by local boy @J_Caloy
I love my BlackBerry #Classic but the #Passport is pretty cool and innovative !
2015 #Antman Review
I was going to write my review of #Antman in really, really, really small font well… because it would make total sense and appropriate no? :)… I am sure someone else already thought this one up… Being a fan of all things comic books I, of course, make it a point of watching all things #Marvel and #DC… not necessarily going to be the guy at the cinema day one but definitely shortly thereafter… Last sunday I caught #Antman.. never really a fan growing up… but given that all these #Marvel movies are linked in the #MCU one cannot take a chance and miss out on story lines and surprises.
#Antman is definitely a different kind of #Marvel movie.. whereas all of the other movies thus far had an air of seriousness intermingled with some humor #Antman went the other way. Different for sure.
Paul Rudd has an incredible knack for delivering comedic lines.. he reminds me of Alec Baldwin (@AlecBaldwin) on #30rock.
Evangeline Lilly is the strong female character and delivers incredibly well… excellent
choice and it doesn’t hurt she is eye candy.
Michael Douglas.. well he’s Michael Douglas what else can u really say or write.
As a whole the story line was ok… when you have to build a back story then certainly something has to give.. and in this case.. the conflict between good and evil.. that only kicked in, in the last 30 mins of the movie and it was less than stellar.. it was really kinda meh.. #yellowjacket as a villain; boring.
In every movie you are always bound to find a scene stealer.. and although Paul Rudd is great.. the scene stealer in this movie was this man…
Michael Peña.. his character Luis is ridiculously funny… and without spoiling anything… especially when he was telling Paul Rudd’s character a story.. too funny.
The 2 post credit scenes…the first one was less than surprising because… the Internet.. the 2nd was very intriguing.
And there you have it my ‘Joe Dirt’ review of #Antman
3 blackberries out of 5
#Fosmon vs. #Inskin Screen Protector Review
I am a proud owner of a BlackBerry #Classic and as such I need to protect ‘my precious’… as is the case no matter what phone I purchase (always @BlackBerry) I protect it with a case and a screen protector. Back in November 2014 I was looking for a screen protector on amazon and came across the #Fosmon anti glare/anti smudge protector.. I am pretty picky when it comes to smudges.. and the price; $3.00 was almost too good to be true.. but I went ahead and ordered it. This past month while looking at another screen protector I came across #inskin tempered glass protector unlike #Fosmon they don’t offer anti glare/anti smudge (at the moment) but I went ahead and bought even with the $11.00 price tag on it.
Obviously it’s not really fair to compare apples and oranges… one is anti glare/anti smudge, one isn’t but both offer their pros and cons
#Fosmon
The good
1) the price; a pack of 3 for $3.00
2) I could not believe how easily I was able to install it and NO AIR/LINT BUBBLES!
3) true to their word the anti glare and anti smudge was fantastic
4) given its thinness it didn’t create any obstruction with my 2 piece phone case
The not so good
1) the one ‘glaring’ 😉 issue which in the end really isn’t because the product does what it claims to do is that you lose the sharpness of the screen colors that your phone offers. You don’t get to appreciate those colors and sharpness.
#Inskin
The good
1) no doubt the fact that you get to enjoy the sharpness of your phone colors given this protector isn’t antiglare.. I missed that.
The not so good
1) THE SMUDGES!!! I am so disturbed by this.. I am incredibly picky when it comes to this… and somehow and I don’t know how there is a streak going right down the middle of the protector. I was very meticulous when I cleaned off the screen before applying the protector.. meticulous I tell you.. and yet this streak can be rubbed off but it just keeps coming back. Like a nightmare..can u see it? #serenitynow
I paid good money for this protector so there is no way that I will replace this protector any time soon… so i will have to suffer through constantly wiping out this streak over and over and over again.. Btw I tried using dish washing soap and rubbing alcohol.. helps momentarily.
2) I was not able escape the dreaded air/lint bubble. Can u see it?
3) the protector isn’t as thin as the #Fosmon one so it kinda obstructs when putting on the phone case..its not though the end of the world.
The winner?? Well if I pretend that the streak in the middle of the #Inskin isn’t there I would rather live with having to remove the smudges so that I can enjoy the sharpness that the #Classic screen offers. That’s how I feel at the moment.. who knows it could change in time.
So there it is.. my ‘Joe Dirt’ kind of review… again, the two protectors serve 2 different purposes but still worth a comparison.
Is this McDonald’s Minions Happy Meal Toy Saying ‘F—-‘?
Movie reviews and trailers – Yahoo Movies Canada.
ohh you terrible minion, you…
My Random Thoughts 