Ate Spam Yesterday

My parents visited last week and took care of the girls while we were in Barcelona. Yesterday I found a can of Spam in our cupboard that they must of bought (Korea has the highest consumption of Spam after Hawaii). My eyes lit up. My stomach did some backflips.

Awesome. It's been years since I ate Spam (Spam and bacon in kimchi jigae kicks ass), so I fry it up and start eating it with rice as a snack (30 minutes before dinner). It immediately took me back to my childhood like the scene out of Ratatouille when Anton Ego (food critic) eats Remy's ratatouille.



Our twin girls see me in this zone and want to try it. Kendra tastes and passes. Kayla tastes it, chews and then asks for "more... this!". She had about 5 bites of Spam. I don't think Christine was too pleased that I was feeding our girls mystery meat.

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"Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer" WSJ

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"With $1.3B in revenues, is DeNA the biggest game company you never heard of?" VentureBeat

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"US message to Arab world matters -- and Obama is sending the wrong one" Christian Science Monitor, Adrian Hong

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Staying with AT&T After Switching From the iPhone To Nexus S

Since I already commented on a couple blog posts at TechCrunch and All Things Digital on the new Verizon iPhone, I thought I should provide more detail here.

Two years ago, after switching from my Blackberry on Verizon Wireless to an iPhone on AT&T Wireless, I was dying to switch back to Verizon. It was a few months in and like many others I suffered from an infinite amount of dropped calls and missed calls that never showed up on my caller ID. Numerous stories where I would have full bars and my friend would have full bars on our iPhones and we still were dropped from our call. I bought a phone not a mobile device.

I would curse AT&T and assumed many things about their ineptitude. I also questioned how they built out their infrastructure. About six months ago, one of our daughters broke my iPhone, so I decided to change to a Galaxy S. I took out my iPhone SIM card and place it into the Galaxy S, so I continued using AT&T. A couple weeks later, she broke my Galaxy S so I switched to a Nexus One. This is where I realized that the dropped calls weren't solely AT&T fault. The dropped and missed calls came less frequently on my Nexus One.

Recently I upgraded to the Nexus S and one month in I haven't suffered from a dropped call so far. I was planning to switch from AT&T to Verizon within a couple weeks since my contract runs out, but now I decided to stay with AT&T. I don't have hard evidence, but logic would lead me to believe that it wasn't all AT&T's fault but something with the iPhone's design.

Since AT&T now sells Android models, they should really do a study on the number of dropped calls between the iPhone and a few of the Android models. They might be able to redeem much of their good will that they lost over the past few years with iPhone users.


Disclosure: My wife works on the Android team at Google. I have been a Apple user and fan since the days of the Apple IIe, many Aldus products and an early gamer on Apple computers. I love my MacBook Pro, iPod Touch and Time Capsule.

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