My LG “clamcell” phone takes mediocre photos, but this is my site as seen on tastewar’s iPhone 4. I’m very pleased with how well the WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.x Basic mobile phone plug-in works. It’s hard to see in the picture, but there’s an option at the bottom of the page to enable/disable it. Very nice.
I really obsess before purchasing electronics. Eric needs a laptop computer for college, and we agreed that it should have a Blu-ray player with HDMI. The problem was, I had budgeted $600 for the purchase, and Blu-ray laptops are $750 and up. But then I found this Acer Aspire model on Wal*Mart’s web site for $598:
Over the past month I’ve looked at a lot of laptop computers in Best Buy, Staples, Wal*Mart, and BJ’s Warehouse, and this Acer is a great unit, regardless of price. I’ve been very happy with my Acer Aspire One netbook, and the construction quality of this full-featured laptop is excellent. Blu-ray video discs start up much more quickly than on standalone players, and the playback is perfectly smooth.
FedEx shipping was only $0.97, and after placing the order on Sunday (a sales tax holiday in Massachusetts) it shipped on Monday and arrived on Wednesday. I know that Wal*Mart is thought of as being the Evil Empire, but I couldn’t pass up this deal.
Follow-up: The price has dropped to $578! This is the #1 bargain right now for a Windows laptop.
This past Sunday’s Family Circus is a nice throwback to the days of classic comic strips, because it’s packed with lots of little fun background details. Click to picture to see a large scan.
Denro pointed out that Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of the Beatles starting work in Hamburg, Germany. On August 17, 1960, a contract was signed by their agent at the time, Allan Williams, committing the boys to play until October 16. A fire-singed fragment of the contract survives. In the picture above, John Lennon watches the Beatles’ van being loaded onto a ferry in Liverpool, bound for the Netherlands, August 16, 1960.
This political cartoon by Tom Toles is from 1987.
The real reason why Mickey wanted to go to Paris…
