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Season 21 Ep 18: The comments episode

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:10 -0500

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The comments show
Been a long time since we have done one of these
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That's it on show notes

Tags: Blackberry Verizon comments Matt Snodgrass

Betsy and her husband Kris Oct 08, 2007

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:10:38 -0400

Croncast - 2007-10-08.mp3
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Length: 36:44
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Betsy and her husband Kris Oct 08, 2007

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Thanks to Dan for the generous support late last week . . .
This show is for you
I have found my next career
Home Bottling factory for breast milk
That is creepy
I should totally do this is
You can pump and dump
My house is near hear
Your 15 minute break is no problem
My sister won't stop calling
She called me in church today
They have a conversion van club
I don't have a conversion van anymore Vicky
Do you have a hand pump anymore?
You got 30 minutes at work you can do a double pump and dump
If you have to pump in a prison bathroom would you even touch the electrical outlet
Their mirrors aren't even made of glass
Shiny metal like a McMansion refrigerator
When I take out the pump is make this noise
And I start leaking right away
The reason for the pee pee
I got moobs I don't feel her pain
The noise queues her and immediate let down
Walk into a shopping mall with a boom box playing that sound
Watch the mommies
Helps me milk the goat
Flafoo now exists
Tell your story Mr. B
Flafoo.com
Say it three times fast
Flafoo flafoo flafoo
The whole idea is to make finding shit on eBay easy and quick
Making looking up stuff on eBay fun again
Kris's idea of funny with links
Following that path of keywords
I could say turkey fryer - http://flafoo.com/turkey fryer
And it works on your iPhone quickly
If you are buying anything from eBay start your shopping at flafoo.com
I need a job to support my garage saling habit
Goodwill is eBay 1942
Waiting for stuff to come through the doors
The Christians go buy pancakes and then come to Goodwill for skirts
I was about to pounce on a comforter set
I heard her reading the title letter for letter
I knew what she was doing
She was having someone look up her shit on eBay
So I start to chat it up with her
Screw the voice mails . . . send her a text
My Blackberry doesn't send text messages
Right
I didn't nerd out on her
She's the woman who got he Blackberry and said, "O it's for recipes"
Did you take her under your wing?
I tried Mr B
My niche is the toys . . . you can't take that part of Goodwill
The breast feeding plates
Have we ever talked about plates
Friendship was kind of born
Well, that is good
All the regulars are kind of gone
How is that creepy?
Have you noticed that they are not here?
Who?
I should have known then
Putting my car in the garage
Yes I had to move your junk
No more big stuff Mr. B I promise
Well, you threw a passive aggressive smack down
Garage is for cars, Betsy
It's for toys, rakes and storage
I think it is a puffy cuff thing
How is that a puffy cuff thing?
My car has 75 miles in the last three months
You drove them Betsy
Wheelchair stroller
My mom's prize Wheaties box with Michael Jordan on it
You got to keep this one straight baby
Getting stuff together for one of you mom's students
I feel like I been hit in the forehead with Night Train
Dewey, Wednesday's show is for you

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Smartphone absurdity, I want just one

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:23:33 -0400

I didn't realize how absurd this smartphone crap was until the day before yesterday. We have a potential client using Blackberries as podcast players. Which was no big deal since I worked on a solution a few years ago at my day job but I needed to get the same version as the client. Hence a new radiation hot spot for my palm.

Now in the house:

1 Treo 700 (mine, Verizon)
1 xv6700 (Betsy, Verizon)
1 iPhone (work, AT&T)
1 Blackberry 8703e (work, Sprint)

Two of them are for work, like I marked them above, but it is ridiculous. They all do like one thing better than the others, one carrier's plan is better priced or the network makes all the difference. What do I mean?

Best sounding as a phone:
1. Treo
2. iPhone
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700 (horrible)

Ease of use as a phone:
1. iPhone (my mother-in-law could use it)
2. Treo
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700 (need 3 hands to make a call)

Ease of use overall:
1. iPhone
2. Blackberry
3. Treo
4. xv6700

Best OS:
1. xv6700 (windows mobile 5.0, too bad everything else about it sucks)
2. iPhone
3. Treo
4. Blackberry

Best media playback:
1. iPhone (wonder why?)
2. xv6700
3. Treo
4. Blackberry

Best keypad:
1. Blackberry (update: thanks Garrick for pointing out I misspelled it the first time -LOL)
2. Treo
3. xv6700
4. iPhone (it's pretty . . . hard to use quickly)

Best sms device:
1. Treo
2. Blackberry
3. xv6700
4. iPhone

Best email device:
1. Blackberry
2. Treo (would be third if AT&T edge were faster)
3. iPhone (on wifi this is second)
4. xv6700

Best web device (network):
1. Treo (doubles as EV-DO modem, love it)
2. xv6700 (doubles as EV-DO modem, never used it)
3. iPhone
4. Blackberry (locked into a special start page, blah and doubles as EVDO modem but Sprint rates are insane)

Best web device (wifi):
1. iPhone (experience much like real browsing
2. xv6700 (fast but reformats pages)
The other two are AWOL with no wifi capability

Best camera:
1. iPhone
2. Treo
3. xv6700
Blackberry is without

Best network:
1. Verizon
2. Sprint
3. AT&T

Best overall:
1. iPhone
2. Treo
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700

Taking all of this into consideration and my experience with all four operating systems and form factors, I have decided that my ultimate phone and carrier combo would look something like this:

An iPhone on Verizon's network, use as EV-DO modem, with an add on keypad and GPS onboard. That would get an 'ooh la la' and an amen.

Tags: iPhone xv6700 Treo 700 Blackberry 8703e Verizon EVDO Sprint GPS

Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 14, 2006

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:49:30 -0400

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Show: #215
Length: 40:58
Size: 28.1 mb
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Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 14, 2006

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Show Notes

This humble home awaits demise and future teardown status.

Kris goes old school with the intro; it feels good
Go to Croncast.com and send an email with the contact form
"I am a mommy" it sucks your energy
You're not an iron worker
Pummeled by child, feed this one feed this one
Cabbage Patch Kids on eBay
The iMac is a shiny something that maintains Betsy's attention like a racoon
Cabbage patch kids with ink spots
Loose PayPal card means mommy is working hard
Old biddy pulls out vintage Cabbage Patch kids at Goodwill
Betsy's amazing knowledge of worthless garage sale info that floats in Betsy's head
If Betsy were the wizard she would be hugging the dolls
Marketing My Size Barbies to the the friendless
My size Barbie's cup overfloweth
My Buddy dolls are worth some bucks
I had a wagon that came out of the back of an El Camino (not really but a drag strip car)
Chicago style rats living in our shed as a kid
A pregnant rat from your worldly belongings
We had septic, don't worry about it
Sitting in a cloud of smoke watching Gator, "Don't worry son, you're safe, we got septic"
Crazy ass chainsaw with monster truck tires
A lumberjack should of had that chainsaw
Manly men and powerful chainsaws for your wifes blackberry patch
Taking care of the the sister
Finding a rental in Naperville isn't a mommy's job
Rubbing her head for the stressing me out look
There has to be a line
Fidning a rental over the internet
What do you lose, Betsy?
White Hen acostation where a nerd got put in his place
Teardowns are not evil
Kris says McMansion isn't fair term for the replacements
Kmart would have been a luxury (though i would never wear the clothes from there)
Betsy lays out her messed up youth and her liberal/conservative inner turmoil
How the shows will affect Elliot
Betsy wants stability, no moving, vacations and three squares a day
She's got Bush on one shoulder and Pauly Shore on the other
Every place is the same but a trade-off for some wierd bug or natural disaster
Slugs in the North West
Betsy will do whatever good Unitarians do on Good Friday
How are they going to pay first months rent?
Contest on Monday!! No idea what it is but the prize is a slightly used My Size Barbie

Tags: My Size Barbie contest Naperville McMansion Pauly Shore