The GM912 (aka Gigabyte M912) Is In The Building….

After waiting several weeks for its arrival, my Gigabyte 912M finally arrived today.  The G912 is in the building!!!  I’m kind of a newbie to world of UMPC’s, but once I uncovered them, it was like a little boy realizing that girls aren’t gross.  I thought about them, I read about them, I played with…let’s not go there.

I jumped from a newbie to novice in no time, and before I knew it, I was holding my Sony VGN UX180P.  The Sony has been nothing but a delight but I knew that the G912 would take it to the next level, and it did.

The size, touchscreen, performance and sleekness of this beauty is nothing but….I feel pretty, oh so pretty!  What a piece of machinery!!  Granted I’ve only had it for less than 24 hours, my only issue with it, and just about every other UMPC, is that Apple has yet to come out with one, thus leaving me stuck with the OS I’ve learned to hate, Windows.  It is running XP, the lesser of the evils, but I can only dream of a day when I open up my UMPC and it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s OS X…….(sorry about the ‘flash in your face’ pictures..enjoy..)

Too much flash but you shouldn

Foam Soap

I understand that people will always prejudge you based on your looks. Prejudice is a very serious subject, and on that note, way too serious for today’s post.  My experience with prejudice usually comes from my tattoos.  My arms are visibly covered, along with a small piece on my hand and my neck.  Most of the time people assume that I’m a tough guy of some sort, which couldn’t be further from the truth, but it adds to the fun of this story.

When FedEx delivered my package at work today, curiosity kicked in and naturally, everybody wanted to know what was inside.  When I pulled out 6 different bottles of foam soap from Bath & Body Works, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t exactly what people expected.  There were smiles all around, and a couple of good laughs echoing from my excitement over foam soap!

Short and sweet, these soaps are unbelievable.  The foam, the scent, WOW!  I’m single, which means that I don’t get the beautiful scent of a woman around my apartment, in my car, on my clothes…you get the point.  Instead, I have Cherry Blossom, Sparkling Peach, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Pink Grapefruit, Warm Vanilla Sugar and Black Rasberry Vanilla anti-bacterial foaming soaps to fill the void.  Far from a woman, but it’ll do the trick for now!

(My bad on the pic, taken from my iPhone)

Another random cool App

I find it impossible to keep up with all of the new applications I find, none the less, the applications that are made to organize all of those applications.  I use Evernote, Google Notebook, and Dropbox, to name a few.  They’re all awesome, yet while I was writing this, I came across another one, Clipmarks! (my emphasis with the exclamation mark)  My information is never in one central location, which of course is one of the main objectives of these applications, but I still use them all and will use any other one that comes my way.

I’ve decided that I’m not going to get into the details of all of these apps/plug-ins/extensions/whatever you want to call them, as there are a million blogs and sites that already do that for you.  Yet after saying that, I’ll explain a little about the new app I found today, Cooliris Previews.

Cooliris Previews makes browsing, which used to be called surfing (just threw that in for my own humor), the web a lot easier.  It gives you a preview of any link before clicking on it and going off into a lost world on the internet, which I call ‘information overload,’ and will discuss at another time.  It takes these previews, yes, plural, previews, and keeps them on the side, so you can continue to check out what you originally started to, and doing so in a neat, organized and accessible manner.  I just found it, so I haven’t used it extensively enough to give it a ‘thumbs up,’ or four stars, but I can say it looks pretty cool.  If it works as good as its ’sister’ application, Piclens, it’s going to be top notch.

Sneakerholic

I have a serious sneaker addiction.  Right now, I have 10 pairs and I’m always looking for more.  I only wear Puma’s and Adidas, but I’m about to give Nike another shot.  When I was a kid, I always had problems with my Nikes.  I wore them anyway, blisters and all, but know, comfort is King, style is Queen.

My addiction, like all others, can get out of control.  I subscribe to a couple of sneaker RSS feeds, but I make sure not to look at them, because I know it’s just going to lead to trouble, which is why I’m writing this.  I opened up an email with a fresh pair of Adidas, which lead me to see what other colors they had, and who else had them, and how cheap I can get them, and…..here they are…..

Much love to all the sites that help feed my addiction – Karmaloop, SneakerFreaker, NikeSB.org, and KicksOnFire, and believe it or not, HSN.com, where I found them.  Yup, I said it, HSN.com