Darn Dash, Winning, Shampooed

Last night I decided on the spur of the moment to shampoo the carpet.  Ali came home and was surprised to find me zipping around the house with the Bissel.  I don’t believe Ali has ever run the steam cleaner in the 10 years we have lived here nor even suggest that we use it for that matter.  The dirty water I was dumping down the sink confirmed it was time for the chore to be done. Winning!

Yes I saw a good portion of the Charlie Sheen interview on 20/20 last night. Wow.  He spoke in a very manic manner.  Although he may have not been on drugs at the time of the interview, it appears that his long history of drug abuse has really fried his brain.  Some of the stuff he was saying was just so bizarre.

His pattern of speech is populated with certain keywords that he overused repeatedly, like “awesome”, “Rock star” and funniest of all “WINNING”.  The way he used winning was what made it funny. He would just randomly insert it into sentences where it normally wouldn’t belong.  The funniest use of all was when the female reporter asked him about reports that he was bi-polar.  Charlie replied back that he is “bi-winning”.  Ali and I laughed out loud many times during the interview.

Ironically Charlie called into the Stern show yesterday as well.  He actually sounded slightly less bat shit on the phone then he appeared to be on the show last night.  Charlie is definitely looking rough around the edges. It seems that it is only a matter of time until he kills himself via a drug binge.  Even people with “tiger blood” have to die sometime.

My Sony Dash that I got off of Woot finally arrived yesterday.  After I was done cleaning the carpets I tried working on setting the device up.  What the F is a Dash you ask?  Think of the 3Com Audrey on roids. (yea I had one of those too)

The Dash is an internet appliance that has over 1000 apps available for it.  By default it comes with basic stuff to do things like grab the weather, news headlines, and music via it’s built in wi-fi connection.

If you do some digging you can have it stream video content from the web, Netflix, Pandora, Facebook updates and a boat load more of stuff.  Of course it also makes a kick ass alarm clock.

Well my initial experience getting the Dash up and running has been less than favorable.  In order to get your Dash communicating with the outside world you have to register the device to talk to the Sony/Chumby services on the web.  Well for whatever reason, these websites were either totally broken or stupidly slow.  I would go through the process to register the device only to be told when I went back to my account that I had no devices registered.  It was really quite frustrating.

I did manage to get my Pandora account up and streaming while I fumbled around on the web which was nice.  The Dash has a lot of potential but I still have not gotten through the first steps that allow me to download and check out all of the additional apps.

One downfall of using the Dash as an alarm clock, it is AC power only.  Also, I read that is the Dash loses it’s wireless connection it will break the alarm functionality if you have the device set to wake you with something like one of your Pandora channels.

The 7 inch touch screen seems to be very nice although the speaker quality is mediocre at best.

I’ll post more thoughts on the device once I get the damn thing set up correctly, whenever that is.