So apparently the best way to kickstart my blogging is to piss me off (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-piss-me-off.html), though I'm pretty sure I established that a while ago.
Anyway, I've been dealing with a lot of boring stuff lately. Between work and health, the frivolity of the world hasn't been on my mind much. Plus, look at me. Does that guy have any right to call himself Sumocat? Forget about poundcake (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/search?q=poundcake) and lunch pizza (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/search/label/Lunch%20Pizza) because that clearly ain't happening. Things are changing and I guess Scribbles will have to change with it. [+/-] Hide/Show Text [+/-] Hide/Show Text
Today. some jackass pushing some ideology took one of my ink blog entries and swapped a name to suit his own purpose. Now, I don't have a problem with remixes like that. What pisses me off is he's using it in the manner I was arguing AGAINST in that blog post, associating a target with a scary word that people don't really understand, regardless of whether it applies or if it applies to your own cause. I don't know if he honestly missed the point or was intentionally being a dick to me, but I'm offended nonetheless, and, no, I will not link to it. [+/-] Hide/Show Text [+/-] Hide/Show Text
Been on Google+ (https://plus.google.com/stream) for a couple weeks and clearly I made the right choice staying off Facebook because I have no interest in its Google clone.
I like blogging. I like throwing my thoughts out there, and if people want to read them, cool. I like the "I follow you, you follow me" give and take. But the whole circle system on Google, isn't for me.
Bing for iPad lasso tool is a rectangle selection tool in disguise
Iwas momentarily incensed at Microsoft when I learned they released a lasso tool. for Bing for iPad (http://itunes.apple.com/app/bing-for-ipad/id418435837?mt=8) that enabled "Circle to Search". Why should that innovation, which existed in the Microsoft Research Project InkSeine (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/inkseine/), be released for the iPad but not Tablet PCs? My rage subsided when I tried this on my wife's iPad and learned it was less than advertised.
No, "circle to search" is actually a rectangle selection tool with a circular facade. Worse yet, the "circle" is drawn by dragging from one corner to another, exactly how you'd draw a circle on a mouse-based interface. The only innovation here is disguising a cursor-based tool as a touch-based one. [+/-] Hide/Show Text [+/-] Hide/Show Text
Took a tour of DC the other night, including my first visit to the Iwo Jima memorial (http://sumocats.blogspot.com/2011/06/at-iwo-jima-memorial.html), which is much larger than I'd envisioned. Think that covers my patriotic celebration quota for the week. Happy Fourth! [+/-] Hide/Show Text [+/-] Hide/Show Text
Ink + hyperlinks + searchable text + multimedia = Sumocat's Scribbles.
Partly a "proof of concept", partly an exploration into the capabilities of the True Notebook computer known as the Tablet PC, entirely a waste of time, unless you are interested in reading, hearing, or seeing my thoughts about the True Notebook (Tablet PC), politics, culture, and whatever else crosses my path.
Known throughout the Tabletscape as the "Father of Ink Blogging", Sumocat spills ink as part of an open-ended experiment in this new field of ink blogging. Armed with his convertible Toshiba R25 (a True Notebook a.k.a. Tablet PC), he evangelizes the cause of ink blogging through word and deed. Only when ink stains every corner of the Inkernet will the Sumocat find respite. And if you be not a friend of the pen nor a knight of the stylus, beware... for you have reason to fear the Sumocat.
