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Recipe Hunters Dream

Posted by Chad Hawley On August - 21 - 2011

This is the recipe site I’ve been looking for!!  Social media helps ensure that you get only the best recipes for the dishes you are looking for.  I can’t say enough about punchfork.com.   If you like to cook, you definitely need to check out this site.

www.punchfork.com

 

We mourn the passing of our phones.

Posted by Chad Hawley On August - 19 - 2011

A few days ago HP decided that they wanted out of most of their consumer businesses.  No more PC’s and no more Phones/Tablets.  All WebOS (their phone and tablet operation system) hardware will no longer be created.  They have rumored licensing and selling WebOS software, but HP’s reputation with accuracy and honesty when discussing the mobile platform has less value than dirt.

My wife and I have had and used the phones since their release.  The hardware is crap!  The software, though, is a dream.  There is no other Mobile OS that has the simplicity, ease of use, or intuitiveness that WebOS has.  No not that damn iPhone either! This phone OS moved my wife off of standard phones into the world of smartphones and I don’t think we can move back.  Our lives are centered around these devices so intrinsically, we can’t function without them anymore.  Sure we can live and breathe, but we use the calendaring system on the phone to track our daily routine.

Now after 2 years, our phone hardware is falling apart.  I’ve been struggling to keep them working in hopes that one day our carrier would get the newest flagship model of WebOS, but now with HP canceling the whole thing.  We are going to forced to try another platform.  I don’t know how we will handle the loss of simplicity in the new phones.

I think right now we will be moving to android, because I hate Apple with a passion and have hated since long before most apple fans knew of the company and certainly longer than most fan-boys have been alive.  I think I will get an EVO 3D, not for the stupid 3D crap, but because it is their highest spec’ed phone.  If I could get an EVO 4G with the same components minus the 3D I would, but they don’t offer it.  I think I will get the wife an EVO shift.  She wants a hardware keyboard and the phones are pretty close in make up which I hope will make troubleshooting easier on me.

All I know is I will probably never have a phone operating system as awesome as WebOS, again.

All good things…

Posted by Chad Hawley On August - 18 - 2011
Purdue

Engineering Fountain and Hovde

As of today, I have only 2 weekdays left of my 3 week summer vacation from Purdue.  I am torn between excitement and dread this semester.  I have a perfect 4.0 in all my core classes and this semester is going to be one of the toughest, yet. Not only do I have to perform, but one class will be a semester long group project.  I’ll have to rely on others to pull their weight. That is frustrating, because students rarely show the work ethic of a paid co-worker.

 

The shining light in all this gloom is I am taking a photography class.  I am excited about what I can learn there, because I love to take pictures.  I just can’t afford the hobby.  Any tips I can get to better exploit my current gear will be awesome.

 

I failed my first go at college right after high school, so this is my 2nd run.  Now I have just finished my 2nd year of classes and I am starting on my 3rd year classes.  I call them years instead of “junior” year, because my education is so fragmented from my earlier attempt at college and the classes I already have that are transferring.  After this school year, I will really only have 4 classes left.  But, do to some classes being prerequisites for the others, I will need to spread them out at 2 per semester.  While I have been avoiding work while I am in school, I think this last year I will try to work while taking classes.  I’ll probably be broke by then anyway.

So potential employers, I’m officially on the market in August 2012.  <sarcasm>Don’t worry about paying me benefits the world is supposed to end before they will kick in anyway…</sarcasm>

I like google+ !

Posted by Chad Hawley On August - 18 - 2011

I like google+ !

Lovely internet hackers: Site being reworked

Posted by Chad Hawley On August - 17 - 2011

Title Says it all.

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