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Help Me Out on imeem!

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Laurence Anderson
on May 6, 2008
in Articles, Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy and Personal
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Lil Wayne

Below the text and the image in this post is an embeded imeem.com playlist, let me explain briefly about this playlist and why it’s here, and pretty much all over my web stuff. There’s a contest run by Lil Wayne right now on imeem.com to win an iPod Touch loaded the Lil Wayne’s new album “Tha Carter III”, and to win it, you have to get people to listen to your playlist which is supposed to be a “faux mixtape” of the “best” Weezy songs, 12 of them.

So what I’m asking from you guys is to listen to the playlist, see if you like it, rate it, comment it, whatever you please.

Here’s the playlist, and if your flash component isn’t working or any extenuating reason you can’t listen to it here, you can listen to it on imeem.com.

New Car!

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on February 4, 2008
in Links, Miscellaneous, Personal and Photos
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Well, I’ve got some free time before going to work, so why not finally tell you (a week later) that I got a new car. It’s a 2005 Black Dodge Neon SE, obviously replacing my old 1996 Blue Dodge Intrepid, which was on it’s way out, would go through a 1/2 tank of gas in less than 2 days, front end was messed up, body damage, too much to maintain, so I traded that in and got this from the local West Herr dealership in Orchard Park.

I’ve had it exactly a week now, and I must say I absolutely LOVE it. That’s pretty much all that’s going on with me right now.

As a sidenote, a couple months ago I posted this and today I stumbled upon another live version of this song but performed at the house of blues and I must say, I love Lil Wayne and I love this song, but this is the best edited video I’ve ever seen of any live performance.

Lil Wayne - Gossip

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on November 7, 2007
in Links, Miscellaneous, Personal and Videos
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Initial iPhone Impressions

Published
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Laurence Anderson
on July 1, 2007
in Apple, Articles, Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and Photos
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Apple’s new iPhone

Well, if you didn’t know Doug (Co-Host of PreviewCast) went to his Apple Store for the iPhone launch and recorded two episodes, but sadly he didn’t get to use an iPhone as of this writing.

I on the other hand, didn’t attend the launch but I did get to use the device yesterday after dropping my girlfriend off at her house, and well all I can say is that I’m in love. I sat in the store for damn near a half hour playing with all the features of the iPhone, taking my time with each one, and I even made a call with it (at least in our store, all the phones are active), so I’ve pretty much given the phone a top to bottom inspection (or side to side if you’re holding it landscape haha).

I’m not gonna go over every feature, I’m just going to talk about my favorite feature, which may surprise most of you - SMS Messaging.

I love the SMS on the iPhone, I text every single day wether it’s my girlfriend, to make plans with friends or to (once and a while) track a flight for somebody that I’m waiting to leave or come in. I love how the iPhone turns it into an iChat conversation, it’s so much easier for me to follow what I’ve said and who I’m texting. The keyboard has been covered on a number of other tech sites and blogs, but I think it’s the best thing in a while, that’s not to say that I haven’t made errors (curse you fat fingers), but otherwise it’s quite easy to type on.

Something that really impressed me and surprised me at the same time, is while I was searching through the settings on the iPhone I sent it a text from my phone, thinking it would take me out of the settings application and back to my conversation, which I wouldn’t like, but instead it dims the screen and prompts you if you want to go straight to SMS or if you want to ignore it for now and continue what you’re doing.

Am I Gonna Get It?

Well, will I get one? The answer isn’t confirmed yet, I WANT one, but it’s gonna be hard for me to drop my Verizon contract which I’ve been with for at least 4 years now, for a network with worse coverage in my area, and for me to drop that amount of money on a phone and contract.

Participating in Shutdown Day

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Laurence Anderson
on March 23, 2007
in Links, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal and Site
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shutdownday.org

I’ll be participating in Shutdown Day tomorrow, so my MacBook is about to be shut down until Sunday morning, I suggest you do the same, because hey, us “geeks” need to get out in the real world sometimes as well.

See you all on Sunday, so if you need me, send me a txt on my phone (716) 597-7057 or zip me an email and I’ll answer it Sunday.

Thanks!

I couldn’t do it, it’s 1PM and I kept myself as busy as I possibly could, got up around 11 after watching TV, showered, shaved, vacuumed, dusted, etc and to top it off, my friend had to cancel our plans due to some family issues, so I wouldn’t have had anything to do anyways, oh well, there’s always next year.