The customer is always right, except when they're wrong.

If you work at any job where you have to deal with customers, and you probably also get your fair share of interesting or annoying people.  Well I've found this amazing site where you can go read other people's work "horror stories", and also share your own if you so choose to.  I have quite a few stories that I'm planning on posting on the site, I just haven't got around to it yet.  If want check out the site, go here at notalwaysright.com.

Blogaway

I'm currently testing an Android app called Blogaway (hence the title).  It's an application that let's me create and manage my blog posts on my phone. It's a cool idea, but given that I'm trying to write a full blog post on a phone I don't know how much I'll actually be using it.  It's not hard to do, it just isn't as fast as using the full keyboard on my laptop.  And with that said I'm going to end the post.  My review of this app is that it is great.  It synched to the blog very fast, and it is very simple to use.  So it you have a blog, and an Android phone I'd recomend downloading this, if anything just to manage everything.

-- CK

One red ear

Back in elementary school I had this weird thing where my right ear would all of a sudden turn bright red and become very very hot. From what I can remember it always seemed to happen at night, or at least later in the day. People would always comment on it because my left ear would look completely normal, but my right ear would be bright red. I hadn't thought of this in forever because sometime around Jr. High it stopped doing it. Then all of a sudden last night at work my ear started getting hot again. Not having a mirror to look at I asked my co-worker if my ear was red, and sure enough it was bright red just like when I was younger. This made me think about it because I don't I ever figured out why this happened then, so now I really want to know what is up with me. :P I did a lot of Google searches and so far this happens to a lot of people, but nobody knows what it is. If there is actually anyone reading this, does anyone know anything about this? Or does this happen to anyone else?

Ipad 3

Working in Electronics I get a lot of questions about the IPad 3. Everyone wants to know if they should buy the IPad 2, or wait for the new one and when we are getting it in stock. I had not heard anything about it at all so I did some research. Nowhere does Apple actually say that they are going to release an IPad 3, it is all just rumors. It is rumored to release in March next year because that's around the time when the last two were released. It's also rumored to have a faster processor, also because the second IPad was faster than the first. That just makes sense. They wouldn't release a new product if it was the same as before, right? Other things like having more colors than black and white for the frame, taking out the wall between the AT&T and Verizon 3G networks, and have a retina display (which I still haven't fully figured out but it seems like its supposed to make the display look more real? I think) All of this stuff seems awesome but a lot of it just seems like dreams and assumptions from consumers. And even if there were what Apple was saying it was doing right now I still wouldn't want to get my hopes up with how much they promised with the IPhone 5 that was supposed to release this fall, but all of a sudden Apple just released a dumbed down version of it and called it the IPhone 4s. What says they aren't going to do that with the IPad too. I'm just saying I'm not looking forward to the IPad 3 until I actually see some real evidence that it exists.

-- CK

UFTs

"I embrace the abnormal and create a normality around it, thus syndicating the illusion of an intricately delicate truth."

This quote may initially sound completely confusing and crazy, but once you think about it a little bit it will give you a sense of how my brain works. Which makes even more sense because I made the quote up. I have no idea where it came from because I rarely use that many big words in a full day, but I was tired one night and that just popped into my head. This quote also explains the basis of the title of this post; UFT's. Anyone that knows me knows that I like to make up random stuff on the spot, and in most cases I am really good at it. But I never had a name for my random "rants". Well one day I was watching an episode of Psych (awesome show) and Shawn and Gus were talking and they said this.

Shawn - *random thing* (sorry I don't actually remember what Shawn said, It was something about Alfred Hitchcock)
Gus - "That's not true!"
Shawn - "Not it's not. Part of a new bit I'm working on called completely random untrue trivia."

Right after I heard that line I knew I needed to name my "completely random untrue trivia." And just like the quote I made up, I have no idea how I came up with the name UFTs; which stands for Unequivocally Fabricated Truths. I had to look up what "unequivocally" meant right after I thought of it, but basically the whole thing translates to "one of a kind made up facts." So if I ever mention one of my UFT's in a post, now you know what I am talking about, and where it came from.

-- CK

I'm back!!

I highly doubt anyone is going to actually see this because I quit writing on here about a year and a half ago, but I kinda wanted to try keeping a blog again and I really like the name of this one, so . . . what the heck. Here I am. :P I would say not a lot has changed since last time I was on here, but that wouldn't be true. First off I got a new job right after I started posting. I work in the Electronics department of the local retail store (still haven't decided how much of my true identity I want to reveal, makes me feel more like a super hero :D ) So far I'm loving the job, obviously since I'm still there. Minus the random stuff that I don't like; keeping the store looking clean, being bored out of my mind on slow days, and some of my bosses, I love being there to help people figure out what they want to buy, or even with just questions on things they already have. Its a perfect mix of my love for helping people and my love of electronics. On the other side of new news, I have a girlfriend! :D She's awesome, pretty, smart, amazing, and did I mention awesome? We've been dating for 9 and a half months now. Probably the happiest time of my life. So ... work, girlfriend, that pretty much covers the whole year (not going to talk about school cause I'm kinda at the crossroads of trying to figure stuff out again). So that's about it for this post, fingers crossed that I won't fail miserably at this like last time.

-- CK

Done

I'm officially stopping updating the blog. It's getting too hard to keep it up. Sorry for anyone that reads it.

-- CK

New Xbox 360 controller

Actually probably I should mention first that I got a Xbox 360 finally.  It is awesome!  My friend was selling his to gain money for college, so I dipped into my college fund to buy it. =P  But anyway, I was looking online for custom controller cases because I thought it would be a cool idea to make my own.  Lazy me, I just bought one.  It came today, just the case, I had to take apart one of my plain white ones and throw the guts in the new case.  That I didn't really mind, the soldering some of the new wires was a little hard to do. . . .curse my not so small hands.  The reason that there were wires to solder is because this specific case (like many others that the company sells) has LEDs in the buttons with a toggle switch to turn them on and off. 

** On another note, I am going to try to specialize my blog on video games (anything related to them).

-- CK

Project Natal

Going off the last post about Sony's PlayStation Move, now I am going to tell you about Microsoft's new installment.  It's called Project Natal (PN), named after the Brazilian city, Natal.  The word "natal" means "of or relating to birth", showing the thought of PN being "the birth of the next generation of home entertainment." (taken off of Wikipedia)  PN has gone past the technology of both the Wii and the Move with motion sensing games with controllers, to absolutely no controllers at all.  With PN, there is a camera that watches your every move and incorporates them into the game as you control what your character does.  It also have both face and voice recognition so it knows to only watch the correct person.  I'm not a total expert on it so I am going to stop talking before I say explain something incorrect (kinda like what I did for the PS Move).  Check it out for yourself at http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/.

-- CK

PlayStation Move (updated)

Ok, well I kinda stole this a little bit from Ctrl + Alt + Delete, where I first heard of this, but I also fully agree with what Tim Buckley is saying.  Yeah I can see why Sony made the Move, because the Wii was such a hit, so they want to increase their revenue.  But seriously?  The PlayStation move?? (go to http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20100312 to see the comic)  That is a horrible name!  Plus what is up with the really weird ball on top of the controller?  Ok so I just looked it up and it does have some purpose.  It changes color to identify the different players, and sometimes flashes and stuff during game play.  So ok, I can see why they added that to the controller, but maybe make it "blend in" with the controller a little bit.  The first time I saw it I was like ..... ummm, what is that???  It pops out like a sore thumb, maybe just make it a little bit smaller, its almost the size of the rest of the controller.  Plus the controller has a cool, black, sleek look.  And then there is a huge neon ball on top of it.  It looks, well weird...  Although I don't know what a true PlayStation fan would say about this, I've never been that much of a PlayStation person.  Oh well, maybe if I do end up ever buying a PS3, I'll check it out. (Or even better, if one of my friends buy one I can mooch of them.)

** One of my friends just pointed out the point of the huge ball on top of the controllers.  It is because the PlayStation isn't using the same infrared that the Wii uses.  Instead it uses a camera which sees the ball of light and is able then sense your motions into the game play. . . . But I still think they look ridiculous.

-- CK