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So I am sure everyone heard about the new 3G iPhone announced yesterday. Yada yada yada no need for a post about that, I think the real question that no one is addressing is when is the price of the Touch going to go down.

The new iPhone costs 199 for the 8GB and 299 for the 16GB, while the Touch costs 299 for the 8GB and 399 for the 16GB. Is this a discount on the iPhone like with normal phones on a new contract?

Regardless it seems backwards to me that the iPhone costs less than the Touch eventhough it’s just a dumbed down version.

Long story short I want an iPod Touch and I am whiney.

So I went away for a few days over the weekend to Harford.  I knew i was going to be going away for like 4 days so I left out the auto cat feeder and auto cat waterer. So anyways, I come home and the cats are just being rebellious. I believe they were trying to usurp me.

So I thought about it long and hard and I feel it came down to the food and water. They thought they didn’t need me any more. It’s like when animals are traveling in a pact and find a stream and plenty of fresh water they start to kill off the weaker animals, because they no longer need help and those weaker animals are going to run down the food supply. (On a side note, I assume this is what happened to Big Foot. And the Johnson family)

 So long story short once they ran out of food, they realized who was the boss.

Me.

Brian Carl

Although I haven’t given my job my 2 weeks yet, I have given them my notice that I will be leaving. Yesterday I got an e-mail asking me to post my own job on our websites. It was a weird feeling, almost like faking your own death and then watching the funeral.

I think the best part about it though was how terrible they made my job sound. It had things like must be proficient with Windows. Listen, if you don’t know how to work windows you shouldn’t be working at all, let alone with online content.

Anyone who wants an account on Brian Carl .com to post let me know and I will make it, but I hold the write to revoke membership for  posts about King of the Hill

If there is one word that describes Brian Carl it is…well…..patriotic. Okay well that is not true, but I was a patriot this weekend and blew my entire economic stimulus check buying an XBOX. I must say this was a great experience. I purchased GTA IV and Tony Hawk Project 8 along with multiple accessories including a pink controller for the lady. (Yes she did request it, but I probably would have bought it anyway.) I have yet to open Tony Hawk.

I have to say GTA really lived up to the hype behind it. I have barley cracked the surface of the storyline, but there are huge improvements from San Andreas. One of the biggest additions is the stealth moves. You hit a button and hide behind a wall or pole and pop out when you are shooting. Also now you can shoot your front window out of your car and shoot 180 degrees out of the car. No more are the days of just shooting left or right. 

The biggest improvement though was the multi-player. There are so many modes in it but the 2 that are my favorite is the plain old death match and the GTA Race. I have to say I expected the deathmatch when they announced that GTA had online, but not the racing. The GTA race is awesome, the last on i played in one of the competitors just left his car and spent the whole time hunting people down and messing them up. The death match is pretty straight forward. shoot to kill.

The other game I am really into on the XBOX is UNO. Call me lame or call me stupid, but man I love playing UNO and for some reason it feels less pathetic if I am playing with other people online, although i know its not.

So in short this weekend I became two things I never saw coming, an XBOX owner and a patriotic American.

With the release of GTA IV I really want to get an XBOX 360. This isn’t anything new, but now its in overdrive. I really want to try the online.

Here is the dilemma though, no its not that I can’t afford it, I feel like I am at a point in my life where I need a new Handle. Hans Gillman is good for certain games, but I feel i need something with more ring to it and maybe even that will incite fear in young children and old men. How am I supposed to intimidate children while playing UNO on XBOX live when my name just sounds like normal foreign guy. (Normal foreign guy in the Internet world = pervert or pedophile and no child is afraid of that). Hans Gillman can only get anger from a draw 4 wild, I want fear even on a red 2 (and I’m not talking about Wedge Antilles).

Any thoughts?

Well I am sorry about the lack of posts lately. Most people who read this know I am moving to Hartford, CT next month and have been working on my resume and trying to find a job. Apparently this takes a lot of time. BUt fear not my loyal fans, there will be more posts to heckle me on shortly.

RANT WARNING

First i apologize for the bad heading but I am not too happy with our good friends apple. I have been a big fan of apple for a while, but lately geeze you guys need to calm down.

Fist apple is suing New York city for using an apple in its logo. Are you frakin’ serious? How long has New York been the big apple?? Well I don’t know and I am too lazy to look it up, but I am going to say longer than Steve Jobs has even been alive. This is just as bad as the recent T-Mobile suing Engadget Mobile for using a similar shade of purple in their logo.

Now you want to piss me off more?? I do not want SAFARI!! If i wanted it I would have downloaded it myself. I thought about it, I really did, but now that its in every software update that apple pushes out I’m not going to download it. A software update is to, get this, update software. If i don’t have it, then there is nothing to update.  Don’t take advantage of the fact that everyone has iTunes and doesn’t notice what they are downloading. Thats an unacceptable line to cross.

Oh also whats the point of a $16,000 laptop that doesn’t have a cd or dvd-drive or a sleek touch screen phone without 3G.

Apple, this is your warning.

(NOTE: This is an empty threat, I wouldn’t even hit a child, but then again thats probably because most children are tougher than I am.)

News Day posted an article last night after the Mets Home Game opener.

As per my last post, Digg users united to all vote for Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley and according to this article it received over 5 million votes.

After a crowd of boos the Mets management decided despite the song winning the poll, they are not going to use it as their 8th inning sing a-long after all.

But hey that is the last home game opener for the Mets at Shae Stadium ever, so no better time to be rickrolled.

Here is the video

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