The LaValley’s Blog

Hi everyone!

So, Jean invited me to join the virtual melee via his blog – at least whilst I am away at college.  And here I am… First time blogger, long time reader…*looks around* …  It’s a lot quieter than I’d imagined.  lol

Anyways, I’m hoping to be able to keep everybody at least mildly entertained and updated with my adventures into being a college student, musician, writer-type…  all that jazz.  I’m definitely excited.

So, yeah.  Enjoy!

(Grammar quality not guaranteed … I like ellipses.  A lot.  You’ve been warned.  But spelling should be good – I’ve got a spell check. ).

Angie is now using the video camera tape her students speeches. She then comes home and uses my computer to “download” them to the PC and either “upload” to her class youtube account or convert to a WMV and give back on a USB card.

Personally, not my first choice sticking 15-20 different USB drives into my brand new PC every 3-4 days, But… it’s a true test to see how “robust” Norton Anti-Virus truly is in the long run.

Time will tell.

On a side note, my Blackberry storm is holding out pretty darn well. I’ve got google maps that acts like tom-tom (with directions). I’ve got an app that shows me the closest “insert yellowbook” query here. I’ve got an app (like the iPhone) that allows me to take a click with my camera and send to amazon and look for similar products…. that was really a cool feature my brother in law had with his phone.

AND I have an app that shows me known speed traps (that links with google maps) and buzzes whenever I get near them. I can either confirm or deny that there was a cop sitting in the “known” speed trap. It’s a real time “flashing your headlights” to other users of the app. So far been pretty accurate. It’s called Trapster (of trapster.com), take a look and see if they have the app for your blackberry or iphone.

That’s all for this week. Till next week…

Another summer comes and another “can’t wait to see movie” arrives and honestly… makes me wonder what the heck happened to make a director go “yep this is good idea” and then an editor to go “yeah, let’s leave that in there” and then a studio suit to go…. “no that’s not at all offensive or anything”….

I present to you:

The Transformer Ghetto bots

These two characters are like the Jar Jar binks of Transformers. Added after a great first movie to help “boost” audience attendence in other market areas.

FAIL in my opinion.