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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

How is Evan liking the fish tank?? We have 2...one giant salt water fish tank system and a smaller fresh water....we love them.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!!!
 
CaptainRon said:
Go Broncos!

Anyone in the NE affected by that weird weather yesterday?
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You mean the monsoon like storm that my dad and I watched blow in? Thankfully we were at a restaurant under cover when it happened. Panoramic of Lake George as the storm came in (the stuff that looks a bit like fog is the rain being blown out in the winds)
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So this weekend, the time came to where my little brother and sister would get a smart phone. I wanted to get my sister the Nexus but she insisted on just getting one of the free android phones verizon had to offer. I was going to give my brother my old Thunderbolt as well.

The Samsung Stellar had just come out 2-3 days ago and was a free-on contract- android phone.

I was actually blown away!
-It uses a Super Amoled + display (non pentile) - its 800x480 resolution but at a 4 inch screen it looks pretty good!

-Internally - it basically has the same hardware as the Galaxy SII did on the other carriers - 1.2ghz S3 processor, 1gb of Ram etc

-Get this: it comes with a 2100mAh battery! I had to pay extra for that in my Nexus
-Ships with what's basically the nature UX from the SIII - comes with 4.0 out of the box including S voice
-Speaker is very loud and clear

The only cons - and this is probably why it's free- 3.2mp camera with no flash how ever it does have zero shutter lag.


I was blown away and did not feel bad now for getting her a "free" phone...sad to say but this blew the DROID Razr out of the water - the only thing I like more about the Razr are the colors/materials

We also switch our plans to the share everything plan. I was the only one who had unlimited and I gave it up (I know you're thinking WTF MAN) but it made since because it only increased our bill by $30 (including the 2 new data plans) and it bumped us to unlimited minutes, and now we have a 10gb pool of data. My brother and sister both live on campus at the dorms so they are always on WIFI so that means I get most of that pool anyways.

One sad thing about the verizon store was that the Galaxy Nexus was no longer on display :( They also didn't have the LG VU which I was curious to see... Anyways, Verizon needs to get its phone situation straight. It made me realize that besides the SIII and the Nexus - Verizon's got nothing. Absolutely nothing.


Wow I feel like this post should have started out as "Dear Diary...."
 
RazorSharp said:
Win #1 for the Pats! Hope there aren't any Titans fans here ;)
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You're in luck: I live an hour away from Nashville (home of the Titans)... and I just don't really like sports. Never did. So you're all good with me :)


EDIT: It was a good day today. We held our annual Patriot Day event on the Courthouse Square to honor our first responders. It was standing room only!

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The only real somber part of the whole thing was - naturally - MY part: for the first time in my life, I had to present an award posthumously to the widow. I was nervous as all get-out... from carefully crafting the speech to be respectful of her recent loss, to actually figuring out what to say to her when I handed her the plaque. All in all, it worked out well... I got that feeling, anyway.

I hope I never have to do that again. I enjoy doing this sort of thing... but this took it to a whole different level in terms of sensitivity.

Nice to be DONE with it and back in the Watering Hole :)
 
I've finished watching every episode of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and now Stargate Universe. The latter was such a good show. Too bad it was canceled after 2 seasons. It was better than most shows on tv now. There was supposed to be a movie to end Universe but the writer had to cancel it so the tv show ended with a 'sortofa' cliffhanger.
 
Anyone else having Verizon issues? The call in # says nothing....can't text, call, nothing can be sent OUT. Only data works on WiFi and everything is coming IN...texts calls etc. Weird.
Happy Sunday all...off to drop kids off to their moms.....have a good evening!!
 
ryancmatchett said:
Anyone else having Verizon issues? The call in # says nothing....can't text, call, nothing can be sent OUT. Only data works on WiFi and everything is coming IN...texts calls etc. Weird.
Happy Sunday all...off to drop kids off to their moms.....have a good evening!!
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Must be local to you: I am having a slow hand-off from 3G to 4G, but everything works...

Have a great evening yourself! :)
 
Oh. My. Word.

That is beautiful and the scenery is amazing. Looks like the perfect place to do nothing but relax.
 
halon said:
I've finished watching every episode of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and now Stargate Universe. The latter was such a good show. Too bad it was canceled after 2 seasons. It was better than most shows on tv now. There was supposed to be a movie to end Universe but the writer had to cancel it so the tv show ended with a 'sortofa' cliffhanger.
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Haven't seen much of Atlantis or Universe, but SG-1 is a great show. One of my all-time favorites.
 
Sup y'all. Rough day. Glad my Niners won and my baseball Giants are on the verge of winning 2 of 3 over the Dodgers. Thank you sports gods. BTW, did anyone see that shenanigan blown call in the Niners game? 75 punt return against us only stood because the stupid NFL won't budge over a total of 4M dollars split between the real officials who are being locked out. The amount of money these refs want, collectively, mind you, is ⅓ of 1 percent of the entire revenue of the NFL! Ridiculous! Pay these refs please! I am begging you. These replacement refs are horrible!

That is all.

jmar
 
I think our friends have a 70" Aquos or something? All I know is it's insanely huge, too big for their small basement. :eek: He's a sports nut though, so it's nice to watch football on it. :)
Morning everyone!
 
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