Quotable Quotes

Bellow is my collection of quotes that I have come across and found intrinsic value in the content of their meanings. The list will be updated with new quotes I like as I find them.




“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.” - Simon Pegg

"Such is life" - Ned Kelly

"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes" - Ted Stevens 

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home." - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." - William Sydney Porter

"Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated." - Drabek R.

"A deceiving smile is better than a honest frown" - Me :D

"I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"It is better to have one friend of great value than to have many friends of little value." - Author Unknown

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise." - Author Unknown

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most important thing about love is that we choose to give it, and we choose to receive it. Making it the least random act in the entire Universe. It transcends blood, it transcends betrayal and all the dirt and makes us human." - Chaos Theory

"It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered. If we're compassionate, we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint." - Penn Jillette

"Women are emotionally incoherent. It's their defining characteristic" - City Island

"Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you " - Luke 6:28

"Oh trust me doc, bringing psychiatric drugs and teenagers together is like opening a lemonade stand in the desert." - Charlie Bartlett

"Nothing good ever happens after 2am, so just go to sleep" - How I Met Your Mother

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." - Samuel Johnson

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein

"A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart." - Terry Car

"Character is higher than intellect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts." - Lars and the Real Girl 

"Did you ever do this, you think back on all the times you've had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble?" - 500 days of Summer

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." - Walt Whitman

"The next time some academics tell you how important 'diversity' is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department." - Thomas Sowell

"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"Science now knows that many of the pillars of Darwinian theory are either false or misleading. Yet biology texts continue to present them as factual evidence of evolution. What does this imply about their scientific standards?" - Jonathan Wells

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.” - C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is an involuntary reflex, it just happens, you can’t help it.” - How I Met Your Mother

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" - Louis Brandeis

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” - Albert Einstein

"When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." - Dr Seuss

"There's a fine line between sweet and creepy, and that line is whether she likes you back." - Micah Madru :)

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was. Love is there if you want it to be. You just have to see that it's wrapped in beauty and hidden away in between the seconds of your life. If you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it." - Cashback

"We don't even have a secretary of the treasury, we have a secretary of the debt because there is no treasury, the treasury is empty, all we've got are liabilities..." - Peter Schiff

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" - Frédéric Bastiat

"Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds government and society. And so, every time we object to a thing being done by government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the state — then we are against education altogether. We object to a state religion — then we would have no religion at all. We object to an equality which is brought about by the state then we are against equality, etc., etc. They might as well accuse us of wishing men not to eat, because we object to the cultivation of corn by the state." - Frédéric Bastiat

"Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons." - Fulton Sheen

SeriesGuide - Android App Of The Week [Week-4]

Today's App is for those of you that follow a bunch of different TV shows and need a way to not only keep track of what episodes you have watched from what shows but also to keep track of when the newest episode will air next. SeriesGuide is the app that comes in for the assist. The app connects to the internet to add shows to your following list. From there it will be able to keep track of every episode you have watched and when the next episode will air. It keeps track of it in Pacific Standard time so if you live in a different time zone you will have to go into the settings and adjust the time it will display.

          
With the paid app of SeriesGuide known as SeriesGuide X you have more widget options for your home screen and it gives the ability to have notification on your phone for when a new episode is about to air.

So if you get tired of checking online through imdb or some other place to see if the next episode of "How I Met Your Mother" airs in one week or in three because they're taking a break on new episode, this app is for you. On a single page you can check the showtimes all at once of your series that you follow. Check out the links bellow and give the app a go!

SeriesGuide

SeriesGuide X

HandyCalc - Android App Of The Week [Week-3]

For all you math geeks out there (or those of you that just want a better calculator than phones generally come with), handy calc is the app for you. I've been using this app for a couple years now. I've done countless homework assignments with this (if only I could use a smartphone during tests). This app remains the best calculator app I have found on the Play Store.





HandyCalc can do graphing, system of equations, unit conversions, and all the more "basic" math stuff. It's a highly useful calculator. The best part is it's free too!

handyCalc Calculator

HTC One Battery Test - Video Playback

Want to see how many hours of video playback the HTC One can do? Don't want to actually have to sit there and watch the entire test in real time? That's where my battery test comes in. In a fraction of the time you can see how long the HTC One can playback video without actually having to watch it all. For this test I used my HTC One S to record using Lapse It Pro. I took a picture every 5 seconds at a resolution of 1080p and then I merged those images together using PhotoLapse for Windows. The HTC One was in airplane mode and did not have a sim card in it (I need to communicate with the rest of the world).

The videos being player in order were as followed:

• Big Buck Bunny
  .mkv - MPEG-4 Video (FMP4) - AC3 - 1920x1080 - 24 FPS - 885MB
• Lucky Number Slevin
  .mkv - MPEG-4 Video (XVID) - AC3 - 688x288 - 25 FPS - 1:41:05 - 901MB
• Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
  .mkv - MPEG-4 AVC (AVC1) - MP4A - 1280x5544 - 23.98 FPS - 2:27:40 - 1.18GB
  
• Rocket Science
  .mkv - MPEG-4 Video (DX50) - MPGA - 608x332 - 25 FPS - 1:37:11 - 696MB
• Star Trek
  .mkv - MPEG-4 Video AVC (AVC1) - MP4A - 1920x800 - 23.98 FPS - 2:06:50 - 2.24GB
• Thank You For Smoking
  .mkv - MPEG-4 Video (XVID) - AC3 - 640x368 - 25 FPS - 1:23:20 - 816MB

And this is the finished result with 5,468 pictures later.

As far as battery life goes for day to day usage, I've been quite pleased. I haven't had trouble getting through a work day with bluetooth on and paired to my Pebble smartwatch the entire time. Here's a battery life example from 4/20/2013.

HTC One Unboxing + Hard Cover Flip Case

So I just got my HTC One, and let me say I love it! But I'm not just going to go out and say everything about the One. I've got to spend some good quality bonding time with the One. Get to know her, maybe take her out on a few nice dinners and what not. Got to get to know her before I go sharing all my likes and dislikes and give my final full impression. As I get something worth sharing, I will! For now, I have unboxing videos.

HTC One Unboxing

HTC One Flip Case Unboxing

MightyText - Android App Of The Week [Week-2]

Now there are some apps that people use daily, and for me this is one such app. MightyText is godsend to those of us that like texting but would love to do so from the comfort of a computer (or tablet). Setup is insanly easy and the usefulness of this app makes MightyText a must download app for your Android phone.

After installing the app all you have to do is go through the quick little setup on the app to log in with your Google account and your phone is setup. Then when you go to their website and log in you will be able to send and recieve SMS/MMS from your computer. It does it all from the same phone number. How it works is when you receive a message on your phone, MightyText sends it to their servers and then you can access it online from the website. Want to send a text back to someone or any number? Just compose the message and send it. It'll send it to their servers, to your phone, and then from your phone to who you want to get the message. It's more complicated than that, but all you need to know is that it is well worth checking out.

SMS Text Messaging ↔PC Texting

Text from Tablet-SMS Messaging

Lapse It Pro - Android App Of The Week [Week-1]

So today begins my commitment to finding and blogging about Android apps that I find useful or entertaining.
Games or productivity apps that are free or paid will all be part of it. So today lets start with a new little gem I found in preparation for doing a review of the brand new HTC One.

I was in search of a method to record the phone (once I get it, I can't wait!) playing a video until the battery gives out. This will be a method of doing one aspect of a battery test. The problem I came into was most video recording had a limit due to the limitation of the file system FAT32, which has a limit of 4GB. That is where lapse it comes into play.

Lapse It Pro

Lapse It is an award-winning full featured app for capturing amazing time lapse clips with your Android camera, simple, fast and intuitive. What lapse it does is take a picture at a set amount of time and does so until you stop it. After that the app allows merging those images with a set amount of frames per second into a video file. You can select the resolution to captures in (the free version is limited to 240p but the paid can take advantage of the full sensor), brightness level of the screen after the recording starts (useful for conserving battery), disable shutter sound, scheduling, scene modes, and focus modes.






Go ahead and give the app a spin in the free or paid versions.

Lapse It • Time Lapse • Lite

Lapse It • Time Lapse • Pro