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• Almost all of my CES clothes shopping done. #fb #ces #
• http://twitpic.com/vrfc9 It's my size and everything! #
• Installing WebOS update 1.3.5. I am anxious to see if it changes anything. Still no video or voice recording – I am assuming. #
• I can study no longer. I am going to find out where my wife is and help her shop from groceries. #
• Sometimes I sit in my car for 5 minutes listening to a podcast before I remember that it will pickup from the same spot when I come back. #
• RT @MesaCountyWFC: Part time Waver (Job#5330556) no experience required. Pay: $7.50/hr http://ow.ly/Qs0c #gjco <- They say jobs are scarce. #
• I am tired of my Palm Pre. I hope Sprint gets an Android 2.0 phone soon. #Pre #
• Well, the presents are open. That was a quick 500 bucks. #
• Wish it wasn't so muddy in the desert. I would love to go shooting. #
• Christmas Eve tradition – get to the mall early for the best parking spot then spend the day with the motor running and backup lights on #fb #
• It's cool to see Chrome and Firefox taking over! http://bit.ly/8KjVQi #
• I am making these for everyone on my Christmas list http://bit.ly/7TxVyA #
• Two days until Christmas as a little over a week until #CES. #

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We head off to Las Vegas a week from today – attending our first press event later that same day. We look forward to all of the great new tech.

Here are a few things that we hope we don’t see at CES:

Digital Picture frames – They were great five years ago, they were getting old two years ago. If they show up this year, we are going to ask very pointed questions to the exhibitor as to why they wasted the money for booth space.

Bluetooth headsets – Unless it’s the size of a grain of sand, it’s not worth showing us. We don’t care about what kind of noise reduction it has or how stylish it is. We will only talk to you about it if you give us a free one.

Netbooks – We love netbooks but they are all 50 different brands of the same device. 10.1″ screen, the latest Intel Atom (or whatever the netbook processor will be), 1-2GB RAM, 160-320GB hard drive, 4-8hrs battery… If you surprise us with one that has a projector built in, that might be cool, but probably not.

Any iPhone app – Save it for CeBIT or Macworld (if there is still such a thing), we love the iPhone, but don’t want to listen to a 15 minute pitch for a product we need to speed at least a week with before we decide how we feel about it.

Cell phones that will never be released in the US – The Koreans always dazzle us with their booths full of fancy phones, but all they do is waste our precious time that we need to spend looking for gadgets and gear that our listeners and readers have no hope of ever getting their hands on.

The world’s largest flat panel TV – Even if it’s 500 inches, there is no way of communicating how massive a massive TV is via photos. We are no longer impressed by bigger, faster or prettier.

A new $300 ebook reader – Before we can get excited about ebook readers they will have to fall well below $100 and  view PDFs, doc and every other ebook format natively. We might consider paying $150 if it offers Kindle-like EVDO downloads for free.

Essentially, we want to see something new. It is time for something that will revolutionize the way we all live. This will take something affordable that fulfills a need that everyone has.

• RT @HelpMeRick: I am less than 32,000 views away from my first #million on #YouTube ! Help me reach 1,000,000 at http://youtube.com/casttv #
• A little Christmas decorating idea. http://bit.ly/8iiS7Y #
• Anyone out there in the #BYU IP&T PhD program? I have some questions and admissions is terrible about answering emails and calls. #
• I am now following @icydk because I heard she was funny. #
• How can AT&T complain about iPhone users hogging bandwidth on one day then provide Free WiFi to all McDonald's customers the next? #fb #
• I superimposed "Find me for free on Facebook" on my classmates.com profile pic. I hate classmates.com. #fb #
• I superimposed "Find me for free on Facebook" on my classmates.com profile pic. I hate classmates.com. #

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Over the past few hours, we have had some real gems. Please keep them coming. Try to keep the expletives to a minimum as I do edit them as to not offend those of a higher intelligence.

• We are going live on KAFMradio.org in half an hour. Tune in for technology talk. #
• Overheard an English tutor in the Library telling a student that the G in iPhone 3G stands for gigabytes. #
• Link: listening to "Buffalo Springfield – For What It – If I am ever in one of those situations that requires… http://tumblr.com/xrz4mj2rj #
• If I am ever in one of those situations that requires that I sing a song on stage this is the song I am singing. ? http://blip.fm/~ho0ms #

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