I was an early adopter of Gmail, so I was lucky (unlucky?) enough to get my first initial/last name as my email address. Unfortunately, all the S Brownes who were late to the party those who use sbrownesomerandomnumber, for instance always seem to forget that they are not me, and they give out [...]
I have recently taken up watching Dowton Abbey. If you had told me a month ago I would be addicted to a show about fancypants rich English people and their servants and their weird alien-like customs, I would have heartily guffawed in your face whilst swigging my tea. But it sucked me in, and Ive [...]
I havent posted in a long time because, you see, a while ago I got a job. One which requires me to actually work, which is new to me. So here are my notes of the past six months of goings-on, in an unreasonable font: Got a job. Go there every day. Sometimes crazy things [...]
Today I was a bit under the weather, and so was Aidan. Earlier, I managed to help Liam make blueberry pancakes with the kind of pancake mix you just add water to. They were satisfactory. But then later this happened: Aidan said he was hungry after not eating all day. I told him he could [...]
I smell a conspiracy. S Voice sort-of worked when I first got my GS3 a week or so ago. Now, all it will do is open Pandora. I have the suspicion that the features have been quietly disabled due to Apples whining about Siri. For example, the first day I had the GS3 I asked [...]
I received my Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy S3 last week, so I will now hand out free tips. Youre welcome. Today I will cover the Face Unlock feature, which is actually available on any ol Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich. It goes something like this: When you want to unlock the phone, [...]
Google+ Hangouts is one of the coolest things about Google+. Unfortunately, however, I dont have anyone to hang out with. So I decided to use it as a babysitting device while I left my children unattended. Okay, just to clarify, I didnt leave to go shopping or to party or anything like that. I [...]
Put aside the zombie apocalypse, the rapture, and all those other dystopias wed like to avoid. Lets talk about the fun future you know the one, with the flying cars and robot maids and whatnot. You know you always thought 2012 was going to be fabulous in terms of futurey stuff. Heres the checklist. [...]
Its happened to us all. One day you have 230 friends, the next day you inexplicably have 229. You frantically search through your friends list to see who is missing. Sometimes you figure it out right away, and other times its weeks later when you realize your second cousin Barry in Milwaukee is no longer [...]
The other day when I got excited about finally getting a 4G LTE signal at my house, no one else in my life seemed to share my enthusiasm. My 7-year-old said, Awesome! I have no idea what youre talking about. My 9-year-old said, Its your other kid that cares about that stuff, remember? My parents [...]
