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Shapewriter on my Droid works in both standard and landscape mode. May be in the settings. Not sure. But it does. Give it a few days....takes a bit to get used to. Give it about two weeks or so, you will swear you will never go back. You get FAST. Faster than any double-thumb typing.

Shapewriter will change everything you know about the mechanics of texting.

There is merit to this. Also the fact that people are creatures of habit. We like things to have a constant to them. Though we appreciate change, we appreciate change that retains its roots so that we can still feel that original familiarity. We, as people (as gamers) do not make change an easy task.

Yeah, I'm over 30. Yeah, I know it's a style. Yeah, it's not "hurting" anyone out there. Except for the person sagging and their chances to be viewed with respect and not disdain and pity. Except for the parent out there walking around with their children who get to see some idiot's ass. Except the people on public transportation who are now sitting on the ass sweat saggers leave so much easier now. Except for the people who raised that sagger to be a better person than they were, only to find the sagger dresses like a retard. Except for a race/sex/generation/whatever that needs to pick itself up and is content with playing the role of the downtrodden. As for your A: If it's comfy, it's comfy. I wouldn't know. But you're fucking up your spine. Sorry, but you are. As for you B: It doesn't look good to the ladies. It looks good to the dumb bitches. It doesn't look good to the ladies.

I have been a big fan of the Droid I picked up back in December of '09. I really like it and I have yet to experience a let down with it. Admittedly, I came from a QWERTY phone and chose a Droid for the "safety" of the physical keyboard. However, 6 months of using this phone on a daily (if not hourly) basis, and I have yet to type a single word on the physical keyboard. Especially now more than ever since I downloaded the ShapeWriter App. Free. The whole drag-texting you saw on that other phone commercial during the Superbowl (I really can't remember what phone it was, maybe Samsung), you can now do that on the Droid or any other Android phone (I think). Believe it or not, because of this app, I seriously believe my double-thumb accuracy for texting has suffered because I now text using only one finger as it drags itself all over the screen....and FAST. I love the Android capabilities and I love how it's open source and not under the watchful eye of Apple. I do not discount the iPhone's capabilities. It's a nice phone. Anyone who says otherwise really doesn't know what they're talking about. Both the Droid and iPhone are comparable, with equal differences that make them both great phones. My decision in choosing a Droid was purely based on the open OS as well as choosing Verizon over ATT...and seeing ATT's new announcement about doing away with unlimited data plans, it looks like I may have made the right judgment. Android is pretty badass.

I don't know you guys personally, but I'm going to say that you're probably not falling into the category that's being discussed in this article. There is a grand difference between shit-talking amongst friends at the dart board and the shit that happens online. Unless your dart board is in the mess hall of the KKK or at a train station with a gas chamber as its final destination....I think you're both quite ok.

A few days ago, I had the wonderful experience of riding home from work on a cramped train on the ever-so-famous Red Line. (for those not in the know, this is the elevated/subterranean train system here in Chicago) Typically, I enjoy my rides home. The time allows me to catch up on thoughts...plan out the rest of the night or the week...or finally listen to that album I've been meaning to get around to. But last week, I had the best. experience. ever. Because I was able to sit there with my knees facing out to the aisle...and a stranger's ass sitting right there atop my knee. Now mind you...this wasn't someone's actual ass physically sitting on my knee. It was some punk's ass-part of the jeans resting there on my knee...but his actual ass was still about a full foot or so above it. That's because he was one of the mindless numb that walk around like they're doped up on medication and don't realize what their clothing is doing, or not doing, on their own bodies. The only thing he was missing, really, was looking off blankly into space and drooling a bit from the corner of his mouth. Would have totally looked the part of the drugged up patient....or zombie...anything other than a person who's completely awake and walking around town. I'm writing, of course, about the stupidest "fashion" trend that's ever hit our society since the leotard-out-in-public trend...and that's the pants not actually residing on the waistline of our fine youth out there...but hanging well below the ass crack. "Sagging," as they so fondly refer to it. I sat there, not quite knowing what to be more upset about. That some guy's pant-ass was resting on my knee...or that he, like so many others today, think that this is some kind of good idea. His back pockets were, literally, halfway down his thighs. What...the...hell...is...keeping...them...UP? I cannot see walking in a way to keep these up above the knees doesn't have ANY type of negative effect on the knees and spine. It's not the way we were built to walk! I looked at this guy and wonder why the hell he was being such an underachiever. I mean...if you wanna be a playa, aren't you supposed to go all's out so people know you're the pimpest of the pimp? The way I imagine it...to completely go with the flow, he should not be stopping at just the jeans. Wear them damn jeans off your ass...but don't forget to: - Pull your arms through the sleeves of your shirt, but don't you dare throw the rest of the shirt over your head. I mean...why the hell would you do that? - Put your toes into your socks, but don't you dare pull your socks over your heels. I mean...why the hell would you do that? - Put your half-worn sock feet into your shoes, but don't you dare put your heels inside your shoes. I mean...why the hell would you do that? - Make sure you throw a belt around your waist, but don't actually buckle it up in front. I mean...why the hell would you do that? This is NOT the way your momma dressed you when you were an impressionable young man. She actually dressed you right. She bought pants that coincided with the waistline you were growing up with. So what happened to you? What happened today that tells men to wear their pants in a way that forces us to see the cheap $5 boxer shorts you decided to buy from Target? Is this fashion? Really? You're walking with your lady and someone runs by and snatches her purse...you going to give chase? Or are you going to give the thief a 15 second head-start while you pull up and cinch your pants in preparation for a run OR you just take the damned things off before running after him? Either way, really, makes you look like an idiot regardless. I can only imagine that someone who sags their pants like this will, oh, from time to time, say something pretty stupid so someone else on the street or in the club...or in the nursery's playground where they really belong...and that someone is going to punch you square in the face. What are you going to do first? Try swinging back at him with one arm while your other is busy making sure your pants don't fall down to your ankles? Or perhaps just work on getting your pants up to your waist while you're lying with your back flat on the ground? Some will say this looks cool. Some will say that this is the fashion. But the majority of the population, I believe, calls it right. "Ten billion Chinamen can't be wrong..." didn't become a cliche for no reason at all. While you're shaking your ass in your dirty underwear for everyone to see, most people are shaking their heads at you, wondering just what the hell you were thinking when you looked in the mirror before walking out of the door this morning. Wondering what female is looking at you and thinking to herself "this is the guy that looks responsible enough for anything life's going to throw at us." Wondering, good sir, if you are just flat-out-fucking-retarded. Because the trend....this stupid, idiotic, moronic new way to wear your pants out in public...makes me want to turn that guy who had his ass sitting on my knee around and slap the momma-sense he forgot about back to the forefront of his head. What the heck could he do if I did? Chase me...? Have fun falling down to the sidewalk when you decide to give chase.

My unfounded opinion is that she was fired and they are just presenting a story that doesn't tarnish anyone in the process. Otherwise, there have been way too many articles and snippets of Fox panning the whole franchise that, really, put her on the map. That can't go over too well with the director, but more yet, the producers of this series. Whenever I saw those articles with her quotes, she just appeared more and more ungrateful to those who gave her a start. True, it was a trade-off....the fame the movie could give her in exchange for her sexuality mixed into the franchise (because really, it isn't her acting)....but there needs to be a mutual respect in it. They never portrayed her as an idiot, they portrayed her as a strong, dependable woman. The least she could have done was portray Transformers as a worthwhile endeavor for her to take instead of the schlok that she was quoting it as.

Yeah...those are the easy targets. Sadly, though, I think a great portion of them are just regular lookin' folks like you and me. That's kind of the disappointing reality of it.

I don't think my attention was caught on this article because I was viewing it in a me-me-me/ how-can-the-world-make-MY-life-better perspective. Rather, I was reading this article (and I believe it was in the vein in which it was written) that it's appalling to see what the anonymity of online gaming licenses "normal" everyday people to become once they are not in front of someone. I have met people in life that just seemed like normal people. Out in a group, out for a beer, the topic of games comes up and what do you know...1 or 2 of them play Socom or Modern Warfare or something. The entire night they seemed normal. Acted normal. Spoke normally. But then I met them online in a room, mid-round, and you hear how they speak when they don't think someone they know is listening....and that's when you hear them dropping the "faggots" and the "niggers" and the "fucking Jews" and the "fuck your mother silly, bitch" comments. And you think to yourself...."that's NOT the dude I was talking to the other week." I have no evidence of this, but I am of the mind that over half of the players who speak like this on the mic do not speak like this in their regular lives. They don't speak this way at school. They don't speak this way at work. They don't speak this way with their girlfriends/wives/kids. But when they feel that their environment is anonymous enough where their given name will not be judged, then they become the person they evidently WANT to be...but can't. Because of whatever social environments they depend on to upkeep their existence. That, really, is the heart of this matter. It's not what you HEAR. It's what's being SAID. My interpretation.

War of Words Gamers Split on How to Take Aim at Digital Hate Speech Article from Chicago RedEye 04.19.10 Spokane, WA It's not just cyberbullets that are exchanged during firefights on the Xbox Live version of "Call of Duty." Many gamers also exchange hate speech over their headsets as they stalk each other across the virtual battlefields. Players trade racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic insults so frequently that game makers are taking steps to tone down the rhetoric. One gamer told an opponent he presumed to be Jewish that he wished Hitler had succeeded in his mission. Many exchanges involve the talk of rape or exult over the atomic bombing of Japan. There are frequent slurs on homosexuals, Asians, Hispanics and women. Such comments can be heard on all online video gaming systems, including Playstation Network, Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and others. "Personally, I don't do a lot of online gaming for that reason," said Flynn DeMarco, founder of the Web site gaygamer.net, which has worked with Microsoft and other companies on steps to clean up online gaming. "I don't play with anybody I don't already know." DeMarco said hate speech has been a problem for years. Game makers, despite some serious efforts, can only seek to limit the amount. "A lot of the problem lies within the players themselves," DeMarco said. The widespread use of the slurs is partly fueled by the same anonymity that provides cover for abuse throughout cyberspace. Players can compete with people thousands of miles away and know them only by fictional "gamer tags"they use to identify themselves. After years of tolerating abusive players, gamers have become more diligent about noting the gamer tags of abusive players and reporting them to game companies. Abusive players can be punished or even banned, but the process is slow. "It's a baby steps kind of thing, DeMarco said. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox 360, has taken numerous steps to clean up the language on its Live service, which is by far the biggest online gaming service with some 23 million members. Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Microsoft's Xbox Live service, heads a team charged with providing a safe and enjoyable experience for customers. "There is always a subset of humanity that goes toward miscreant behavior," Toulouse said. With 1 million to 2 million players online at any one time, most of the policing falls on other users who report hate speech to the company, he said.

He had a very large influence over the comic and fantasy art industry. Guy was a pioneer. R.I.P. and he'll be sorely missed.

It was hard for me to listen to the rest of the video when I was in amazement at the thumb-talon that woman held up when swearing to tell the truth. She could gut a coyote for her starving 3-yr old with that thing... ???

Bull and I work very close to one another in the city. We can meet up for lunch and a beer during the day...or closer to whistle time, perhaps we could meet after work for food and LOTS of beer.

NICE find on this. Love it. Works great on my droid.

Ohhhhh, Viper, I think he's referring to the rap track that was associated with that tourney. It was a track offered up by Time from SHO, as stated above.

The site I've used for quite a few years is http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ I rarely use any other as I've had the most success with this one. Hope it helps. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?value=Jason+Mraz&search_type=title - TOW

dude, can you be a bigger douchebag? TOW - thank you. been lookin for bday gifts for my best freinds twins. these were perfect!!! Glad I could hook you up, Puddy. And don't sweat it on Pathogen's post. Really, it IS a funny story...and he had it right, it's completely the author's subtle intent! LOL. You see, one of her main hangups during the writing of this book was that she had this great side character in this beaver to help out the rabbit...but she was coming up to wall after wall in trying to determine what the character's name should be. So she asked me. I gave it a few hours in my day to think about it and then determined that "Pat" would be appropriate and something the kids could relate to...because that's what beaver tails DO. They pat down whatever materials they've used to create their dams across rivers. So I said "Kris, you should just name the beaver 'Pat.' It's an ambiguous name, neither really male nor female, so any child could relate...and that's what the tail does anyway! 'Pat, pat, pat, pat!' So just name the beaver 'Pat!" She thought it was pretty cute, as really did I. I was really hoping she would use it. What she ALSO thought was that I was INTENTIONALLY inserting the subtle, under the radar, sexual connotation to it, but that it would be subtle enough where NO child would get it, and some adults would get an inner chuckle about it. She loved it...and she used it. This book was written months ago...but just hitting publication now. When she told me about it two weeks ago, that's when she revealed to me that she thought all along I came up with "Pat" for the sexual connotation...knowing me. I let her know that I was so sincere in the innocent version of the name...but that I was ALSO a little embarrassed that the sexual connotation didn't even OCCUR to me when I came up with it! For shame on me!! LOL So that's the back story on "Pat" and, thus, Pathogen's comment really is fine and appropriate. And Strick...yes, this is the same author from "Bruce, the Little Blue Spruce" that I told you about, as well as "Tiffany's Epiphany" which also depicted the woodland animals and a skunk's bad habits in trying to be everyone's friend. All these books are beautifully illustrated by Jim Valentino himself, one of the founding creators of Image Comics and creator of Shadowhawk. And each one is a FUN way for kids to be entertained, to learn and to inherit a few good moral tales. I will always recommend this series. And "Name Here," there are NO religious connotations inherent in this story whatsoever. Even in the "Bruce, the Little Blue Spruce" story about a blue spruce wanting to be a family's Christmas tree...the only infusion of religion for that story was the "event" of Christmas, but the overall theme of the story was that it was OK to be different from everyone else around you, and that it's the special people around you that see how that difference really makes you that much more unique and loved as a person (or tree )

Or at the Fairview Clinic for the Mentally Deranged.

Well, don't know if you picked one yet or not.......(and why does it seem like you pop up every few months with a new identity issue?) LOL.... Anyway.... [-^-] = I know it's kinda reaching, but it could look like a flatline...with a faint heart beat....playing off the "dead" in your name. [D/C] = Pretty straight forward, but the "/" puts a little more action into the letters...? [DeD] = Kinda playing off the logic I came up with for "Ravenfall," and RVN....three letters dealing with just a portion of your clan name. I'll hear players say "Hey, Raven's here" when we pop into a room. Same could be said for you and "Hey, the Dead are here." [-O-] = I know there's no C or D in there, but it's just a letter representing a "cell." There was a time when I ran "A Perfect Circle" that instead of [APC], I thought of having the clan tag just be [O]...as in, literally, a perfect circle. You can work with the letter to create images and shapes...and not just take them as the letters they are. Typically, the higher you get, the more creative you can get. All I got. Good luck in the tag-hunting, though! - TOW

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This guy..................is a moron. Grade. A. Moron.

Awesome! Thanks, Covert. I'm sure that she, and the kids, will be satisfied.