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iPad Blues

Chris — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:04:00 +0000

We got the kids an iPad for Christmas. If you never here from me again, it’s because I’ve become way too addicted to Fruit Ninja.

Best Christmas Music Of 2011?

Chris — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:40:00 +0000

Ok. It’s been pretty slim pickings this year as far as new Christmas music goes. In fact, this song by the Killers is the only thing I’ve heard that’s worth keeping:

How about you? Anything new that trips your trigger?

Thinking

Chris — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:06:00 +0000

If we treated each other with the same love and respect as we give the guy who made our cell phones, we wouldn’t need Words With Friends. We’d be having Dinner With Friends.

The Rapture’s Coming Early, Y’all

Chris — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:28:00 +0000

Kiss your loved ones and get your tinfoil hats ready!

All You Need Is A Barbie Doll…

Chris — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:08:00 +0000

So the wife and kids and I were at one of those trendy outdoor malls that have swallowed up enclosed malls and turned them into ghost towns and/or drug dens.

It was Prom Night. So in addition to running into the normal hipsters, we were also treated to seeing guys trying to impress their dates by buying them steaks or overp.f.priced Chinese p.f.food.

And then we saw her.

She wasn’t an overly attractive teenager. In fact, had she not been all dolled up, I doubt she would’ve even registered.

She was standing outside a clothing store, with her hair teased high, in a pair of fuck-me-pumps and a dress that barely covered anything. You couldn’t help but look at her. Despite the glares of my wife. (Who was also looking.)

And they her date came out of the store.

Actually, dates.

Two geeks. But not the supersmart cool kind. The clueless kind. Nerds. And that’s when I realized what was going on here.

I whispered to my wife, “This explains the girl. It’s Gary and Wyatt.”

Product Review: Hitachi Mobile LifeStudio Plus 500GB

Chris — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:11:00 +0000

Confession: When my daughter was about a year old, we had a major computer crash. Guess who hadn’t backed up the previous two months of photos at that point? Yeah. Since that moment, I have backed up every photo I’ve taken via CD and a second computer. It has been a major pain, but since I wasn’t looking for a divorce, I went through the process every time a photo was taken.

Enter the Hitachi Mobile LifeStudio Plus 500GB:

Looks sexy, doesn’t it? With its sleek design and glossy black finish, it kind of gives you a techonological boner.

The Hitachi Mobile LifeStudio Plus 500GB is an external hard drive equipped with a 4GB USB thumb drive (that’s the part that reads “LifeStudio” on the dock). It’s magnetized, so it just snaps right into the dock. Very cool and makes transferring documents easy.

Transfers are easy and quick. The software installed on the Hitachi Mobile LifeStudio Plus 500GB is smart enough to search your entire computer for images, mp3s, and documents (including Word, Excel, and pdfs) and put them on the drive.

You can view the files you’ve uploaded via a 3D wall display. My daughter loves skimming through our images this way. If you use Facebook to connect with your friends and family like we do, each photo has a Facebook button at the bottom that, once clicked, uploads the photo to your Facebook acouunt. Cool, huh?

Here’s a video that shows the 3D Wall:

In summary, I love this thing. It’s sleek as hell, fast, and will keep the divorce lawyers at bay for the time being.

Disclaimer: I was given a Hitachi LifeStudio Plus 500 GB to review.

Read This

Chris — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:21:00 +0000

I know I haven’t been around in forever and I should probably write something about myself… but screw it.

READ THIS

It’s miles better than anything I would’ve written anyway.

Happy New Year, Part III

Chris — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Welcome to Cynical Dad, your daily source for mass animal deaths!

I’m starting to get spooked.

Happy New Year, Part II

Chris — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:14:00 +0000

You can add 100,000 dead fish to your 1,000 dead birds:

End of days? Nah. God just hates Arkansas.

Happy New Year!

Chris — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:54:00 +0000

Imagine waking up on January 1st and finding 1,000 dead birds littering the yards of your hometown.

Get your house in order, bitches! The end is nigh!