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Twitter narrows TweetDeck AIR and mobile app shutdowns to May 7th

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Twitter has been warning for weeks that it would shut down TweetDeck’s AIR and mobile apps sometime in early May, but it didn’t say exactly when loyalists would finally have to move on. The company now has a firm date: May 7th. In just over two weeks, Twitter will both pull the apps from their respective stores and stop existing installs from working as the service’s version 1.0 API rides into the sunset. While the persisting native and web-based desktop apps will lessen some of the sting, we’d suggest that you pay your last respects if you have fond memories of TweetDeck’s early apps.

By Jason Bucky Roberts

This has to be the best Live wallpaper ever!

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Amazing 3D fully rendered Time and Space Vortex.

-Rendered, constantly changing. (instead of repeating snapshots)
-Lightening, knocks and rotates the tardis.
-Lighting, the background lights up and alternates colors.
-Interactive, touching and dragging moves the time Vortex.
-Configurable: Change the speed, turn: touch on and off, add/remove the tardis.

No permissions, please watch the video.

This is a Live wallpaper and can only be used by long clicking your wallpaper, selecting wallpaper->live wallpaper->3D Doctor who time vortex.

This application is not created by the BBC, please support the BBC and the Doctor Who Franchise by buying a Doctor Who boxset.

A Google User – April 12, 2013 – Motorola Droid RAZR with version 1.2

Love it on my Nexus 7!

This is the only wallpaper I’ve ever paid for. Sooo worth it! Always come back to this one.

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A Google User – November 8, 2012 – Version 1.1

Vonderful

Great wallpaper, now my new background. Would be the best if A: The TARDIS moved around in the virtex, instead of being fixed in the center. B: The lightning hits reacted faster and more fluidly. Definite buy for all Whovians.

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Chance Broughton – February 21, 2013 – Version 1.1

EPIX

I love how u can set the music to play and touch four the lighting

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David Johnson – February 25, 2013 – Samsung Galaxy S3 with version 1.1

Great

A few glitches like the Tardis doesn’t move when I tap it like it’s supposed to but it’s a great app, everyone who sees it on my phone loves it

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Robert Lacey – January 25, 2013 – Samsung Galaxy S3 with version 1.1

Perfect

Ive waited for something like this thanx

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A Google User – December 22, 2012 – Samsung Galaxy S with version 1.1

Perfect

Another long night.. No sleep

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Yep… Having trouble YET again sleeping… Shocker there! Tried tea, taking a hot shower, nothing.. I guess the upside I’m up to date on The Walking Dead and Arrow haha. Also started reading two new books I’ve been meaning to read for sometime now.

I did find myself playing WoW again… I’m in trouble :) OOOOO!! I did get a new Nexus 7! This tablet is A-mazing!! I was running a HTC EVO View 4G for the longest time. Still a great 7″ tablet, just there are no more updates for it unless you root the thing. But anywho, Nexus 7 is one of the best tablets I’ve used, the only thing I’m not to big on was there was no mini SD slot. I mean I have the 32 GB N7 so memory isn’t a problem haha. But I guess you can just use the USB for all the file transfers.

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Hmmm well I think I’m going to try and get some form of sleep. Or just lay in bed and play games HA. There really is no reason behind this post, just something random and help with the lack of sleep.

Book Reviews: Micro by Michael Crichton, Richard Preston

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Micro by Michael Crichton
Micro
by Michael Crichton, Richard Preston

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Jason Bucky Roberts‘s review

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Read in October, 2012
Allegedly, when Michael Crichton passed away, he has completed approximately one-third of what has become “Micro”, as well as notes and files. The estate retained Richard Preston to complete “Micro”. The outcome is a pretty good techno-thriller, but is definitely not a Michael Crichton work.

Like most of Crichton’s work, “Micro” wants to blend contemporary events and science with more than a dash of scientific fantasy to produce an unexpected – and terrifying – outcome, such as the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park”.

In “Micro”, seven graduate science students at Harvard are courted by a glad-handing entrepreneur, Vin Drake, to come interview for jobs with Nani gen Micro Technologies. The need for them is immediate and the seven are expected to put their studies aside to visit Nani gen in Hawaii and tour their facilities.

Eric Jansen, the brother of Peter, one of the students, is a Vice President at Nani gen. Peter receives a mysterious text message from Eric, saying only “don’t come”. Peter has also just received word that his brother Eric is missing and presumed dead after a boating accident.

Peter is suspicious, but doesn’t convey his suspicions to the others or the police. The police are occupied in a mild way with what they presume are the suicides of three men who are found slashed to death.

The story moves quickly to the point where we learn that Nani gen shrinks people and things to microscopic size and sends them into the rain forest to search out new ingredients for drugs and other commercial uses.

Vin Drake, it turns out, is not a nice person – the seven students are soon shrunk to a half-inch high and set loose in the rain forest where they are expected to die within a few days.

I won’t go into more detail in order to avoid spoilers. The book stands on its own, just don’t expect it to read like Michael Crichton.

The plot has lots of holes and depends on science, real and imaginary, to keep the reader interested. Character development is weak. The storyline becomes increasingly forced as the novel heads toward a conclusion.

I think the Crichton estate has made an error here and diluted the reputation of Michael Crichton. This doesn’t have the feel of a Crichton novel. It appears this posthumous effort was intended to exploit the Crichton name for money. It would never sell as well under the solo name of Richard Preston.

It isn’t an awful book by any stretch. It simply isn’t what it pretends to be, a Michael Crichton novel.

Sorry

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I know I’ve been away and my posts are mostly videos as of late. I’ve been setting up my new computer and getting use to everything haha. So because of this I’ve been trying to keeps things up to date with my phone and that only gets you so far. So again I feel the need to say sorry and I also have a ton of book/comic reviews I have written that I’ll be posting soon on here and my goodreads.com profile.

ALSO!!! I’ll be heading to Comic-Con in Portland, Oregon this weekend!! CAN’T WAIT!! Also on the 27 of this month a again in Portland I’ll be seeing Wil Wheaton inBut at any rate, I’ll be come more active once this computer is put away haha. Thank you again to all my readers & thank you for the lovely comments!! So once again I’m sorry for lack of “real” posts.

~Jason

I’m a waiter and found this funny. All tho, I would be rather upset

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An Applebee’s waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager.

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Chelsea Welch, the waitress, wrote in an email to Yahoo News that the pastor (who has since been identified as Alois Bell) told Welch’s manager at the St. Louis-area Applebee’s that the ensuing firestorm had “ruined” her reputation.

“I give God 10%,” Bell wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic “0″ where the additional tip would be. “Why do you get 18?” (There were more than eight people in Bell’s party, triggering the auto-tip.)

Welch, who snapped a photo of the bill from a fellow server and uploaded to Reddit, defended her right to post the receipt. “I thought the note was insulting, but also comical,” she told Consumerist.com. “And I thought other users would find it entertaining.”

Bell, a pastor at Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church, was not amused, and she called Welch’s manager to complain.

“[It was] a lapse in my character and judgment,” Bell told the Smoking Gun, adding she did not expect her easily recognizable signature would be, as her friend informed her, “all over Yahoo. You went viral!”

“My heart is really broken,” Bell added. “I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”

A spokesman for Applebee’s said it apologized to Bell for violating her “right to privacy” and confirmed that Welch “is no longer employed by the franchise.”

Welch was surprised that Applebee’s fired her, “especially because there was nothing specific in the employee handbook admonishing this behavior.”

“I had no intention of starting a witch hunt or hurting anyone. I just wanted to share a picture I found interesting,” she said. “I come home exhausted, sore, burnt, dirty and blistered on a good day. And after all that, I can be fired for ‘embarrassing’ someone who directly insults their server on religious grounds.”

Welch also isn’t buying Bell’s embarrassment. “If this person wrote the note, obviously they wanted it seen by someone,” she said. “I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the Big Man used as reasoning.”

Adventures in Single Parenting

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Where to start…? For the past year or so I’ve been keeping a log of the day-to-day life of myself and my kids. I’ve also been keeping a medical log as well, mostly for my son seeing how he has the most of the problems. The reason for all the record keeping was caused by me and my ex-wife getting a divorce about a year ago…. As it stands I have the kids 90% of the time. She moved out.. I don’t know why I’m writing about this now. I think it was caused by reading everything that I wrote in the logs.
I know I made a post when everything went down on Facebook and I also stated that I wouldn’t talk about it again.. But there are so many things digging at me.. The drama, games, the lack of respect. Here is the post I made on Facebook:

“End of a Chapter. Starting a new one
by Jason Roberts on Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 12:16am ·

I’ve been thinking a lot about this for the past month or two now. For those who knows both me and Laurel personally, know that we have been, having a great deal of trouble in our marriage.

For the past month now we both came to the point where things are just not working out anymore. We have parted ways and moved on to other things.

We are both working together to make sure the kids are happy in all this and that there is NO bad blood between us both. I know it’s never easy and also sad. But in the long run it’s for the best I think. We are just on to different levels and have different ideas for what we want out of life.

Now this is something that just didn’t happen over night. No this has been going on from Oct. 2011 to now. We’ve try to work things out. But it wasn’t till these last 2 months is where we both realized that things were just never going to be the same or get better. Again there is no bad blood, no “he said, she said.” going on. We are both living our lives and making sure that the kids are happy , health, and that they have everything they need in life. After all.. That is what is important, the kids.

It feels nice to talk about this finally. We’ve been keeping a lot of this under raps for so long, worry on what people may think. Are we going to lose friends? Lose family? Be everyone seems to be working with us to make sure everyone is happy and working together.

We both are see other people and living our lives the way we see fit. No more, no less. This is the last and only time I will ever write about this. The fact is that this is a personal matter. But all of our friends are on here and this is just an easier way to inform everyone that needs to know.”

The truth of the matter is I tried to make it work.. THREE times I’ve tried to make things work out. Whats odd is, I’ve always said if someone cheated on me I was out. Gone.. But for some reason that just eludes me to why I tried to make things work. Maybe it was for the kids? I don’t know….. As time goes on my attention is on the kids. They have become my life and I will do anything for them. I want them to be happy and health. I’m just tired of  walking on egg shells so to speak.

I’m the one doing everything for them. School, meetings with teachers, Doctor appointments, helping with homework. I make sure they have clean cloths and 3 meals a day. Oh sure she takes them every so often. For the past month it’s been Tuesdays and Saturdays only for a few hours. But there have been a few times where I get a text or phone call stating that she is “tired” or not “feeling good” OR my favorite is ” can you come and get them? They won’t listen to anything I say.”

I’m sorry… But that’s not how this works. You’re the parent, the Mother… I just don’t get it really, it’s like they come off as a chore. Also what kills me is when I get texts late at night asking if I’m unhappy having the kids all the time? Followed up with a lame attempted of saying sorry for making a mess of my life.

No… I’m done being nice, I tired of the games and drama. Tired of waiting for someone’s mind to make decision and/or keep a promise. These kids are my life, the air I breath. They make me complete and happy where I am no made what. I love seeing their little faces in the morning and telling me what they had dreams about. How they slept and what they want for breakfast. I mean yeah it lonely not having another adult around to talk to. But I figured a relationship or what have you will happen in its own time. I just hope they are okay with kids HA-HA! I’ll tell you this tho… If I ever do get married again, that’s it! I want someone to talk to me about the problems when they have them. Not just sit there and do nothing. Like I said in that post:

“We are just on to different levels and have different ideas for what we want out of life.”