Dear Mr. Penis,

Prepare for the pounding of a lifetime.

Oh come on!

We're already playing at a disadvantage. Just give us one little tool. Seriously, what's the harm? It's not like you get a free Knife Penis with the app. "Creepiest app"...that hurts.

Ho ho ho ho!

Linux mint 12 has dropped!

It's quite lovely, I must say. Mint has been growing in popularity for a while now. It's based on the Ubuntu kernel, so you know it's going to be very user friendly and stable. I like it because you can completely strip it down. It has the same synaptic packet manager, so you can find all the same software and it's just as easy to install as Ubuntu. They've just cut out all the fat (fuck you, Ubuntu Unity). I dropped it on my MacBook with Parallels, which was easy as fuck, because Parallels supports Ubunut, so just select that and you get all the integration features. Jamboree!



Mint is also very visually appealing, and it has tons of video and audio integration with Banshee media player. As will all versions of linux, you can run it on the bare minimum resources and still expect ludicrous speeds. I have mine running on 1gig of ram on a 4gig partition and it's just as fast as my Mac OS X. Last night I loaded the latest Chromium (not Chrome) browser build on it and it actually runs faster and smoother than Chrome does on my MacBook. Thanks Linux, you really make me feel at ease when I'm surfing places I shouldn't be (xnxx, 4chan, msnbc, etc.)...

So, if you've got an old laptop sitting around, or you're tired of viruses, give Mint a try...or, just go fuck yourself.

Watch Gap Get Buyer's Remorse

Well, my Kindle Fire is set to be delivered today. I listed my iPad on ebay and that should more than cover the cost of the Fire. I decided to sell the iPad after the iOS 5 upgrade, which essentially renders 1st gen iPads useless. Safari crashes constantly and it's slow as fuck. Thanks, Apple. I'm not really too keen on blowing a lot of money on an official tablet. I have a MacBook that handles my daily computing and work...I really just need something small that allows me to access books, music, movies, and browse the web.

The Fire does all of that and the Prime membership looks promising as a replacement for stupid Netflix. Most of the complaints about the Fire are related to lag, which the iPad has in spades now. So, I'm not too concerned with a little lag that will probably be addressed in future software updates. Navigation is also a concern for some on the Fire. I've watched many reviews and for the most part, people are whining about the "shelf" design. Yeah, that would get cumbersome if you had a shitload of media...I'm a simple man. I have a few albums that I like and I don't rent a lot of movies.

My only worry is that Amazon will dump support for this if it doesn't continue to take off. They're technically not making a lot of money by selling the Fire, they're hoping to make all their money on rentals, prime memberships, etc. Good for them. I hope it works. This healthy competition will only lead to better tablets.