Google Plus Collections

Man...Google has it down.

I am an avid G+ user. I am not as sophisticated with it, though. My only wish is that they would get over whatever they are angry at with Microsoft and create apps on Windows phone again. I mean, come on! I digress...

Google has introduced this thing called Google Plus Collections. I guess it's kind of like pintrest. That's an app that's pretty popular here in the west. It's not bad, I guess. I don't use it. My girlfriend could tell you, though. She's always 'pinning' stuff. I wasn't too sure about it, though...at first.

G+ already has a pretty solid way of grouping things together. They call them circles. I have about 7 or 8 circles. I have everything from friends to technology, so I didn't see the need for Collections. That was, until, I looked a bit further. It's not just a "circle" it's a blog type thing..I guess. If I post something, for instance I created a collection about the 2015 tour season of the group I'm in. As we do more shows, I'll post them there for everybody to see. It collects post that I want to collect together. It's like a circle for your posts. It's pretty neat.

So, so far I have one collection. It's the one I mentioned above. You cannot, however, view collections from the iOS app, as far as I can find. So, that could make it a bit difficult until they figure it out..or until I figure it out. Haha!

Today, was a basic day though. I finally bought up with my laundry after a few weeks. I still need a hair cut. My girlfriend mentioned it to me the other day. She's so amazing.

nota whole lot..I guess Isis is here in America as they stated last week. Let's hope and pray we don't get attacked again..but with an open southern border, I don't see us being safe for too long. It's sad..I just hope it isn't too serious. Hopefully nothing will come out of it.

What can you do, though? I'm getting prepared the way an American should. MRE's and Shotgun shells.

Political Debates

Hey everybody..have I been busy!

In the two or three weeks I have been absent from this blog so many things have been on my mind that I have not had the chance or time to write it out. First off, what have I been doing?

Well, I have been working out in the yard. Spreading mulch, planting flowers, picking weeds..the usual. That has been the most of my work.

Second: I went camping. My boss and I went to a bluegrass festival in Eastern Georgia. I had no cell service, no internet connection and even if I could have all that stuff, there was no way to charge my devices. 

Third: I have been so tired and not a whole lot has been on my mind.

I have been debating writing a book about Communism in America because the posts on this blog have gotten tremendous attention from all over the world. I've also been wanting a book about my life so far. Not that it would be interesting but it's funny how things have happened. The way they have worked out is pretty amazing. 

But I wanted to talk about what I just saw on TV. I'm currently house sitting and I have the opportunity to watch real news. I noticed that the democrats have limited the debate number to 6 debates. I remember that the GOP wanted to limit the amount of debates. So I ask: how is this a good thing? I don't know about you, but I want to hear the candidates. I want to know what position they hold on topics that are important to me. I want to know everything that is going on in their mind. How can I do that if we don't let them have a chance to debate each other?

It's so stupid how these debates run. Please, no Bush this time around. No Clinton for that matter. 

I saw that the conservatives had a huge election in England this past week. That's exciting to hear. 

Google's Project Fi

Hey! Really quick: not a whole lot going on in my head lately. Nothing. Seriously. I've been kinda moping around and watching Netflix. Yet, something just happened!

I'm on Google Plus and I come across a post about Google's cell network, thing. It's called Project Fi. I wrote about it last week when it was still in the rumored area of the internet. I mentioned prices and how it could be big..you can read it all HERE but now that we have actual data from Google itself, lets take a look inside my head.

It's not good. Basically, they are doing what Walmart does with it's cell service. It's essentially a piggy back service. It uses towers from Sprint and T-mobile to give you your cell service. What does that mean? High prices. Now, I'm still fortunate to have my unlimited Verizon Data from 2011 on my iPhone 5 that came out in 2012, but let's say I didn't. Let's say I have Sprint's Unlimited data for $80 a month.

Google's offering does a per gigabyte plan. For every gigabyte you want, you pay $10. So 3 gigabytes of data will be $30 per month. Now, 8 gigabytes would be $80 a month. Now, why on earth would anybody switch to a limited data plan when they can get unlimited data for the same price? I don't know about you, but when I'm not burning data just because, I go through about a gig and a half a day. I'm never around wifi and with all of the security breaches venerabilities, I'm happy I'm not using it. On top of the limited vs unlimited data, it's the same cell coverage since it's piggy backing off that network anyways. Why aren't they offering a service like Google Fiber where they have their own infrastructure? Too much money? They are willing to photograph every inch of the world by car, yet they aren't willing to build an infrastructure?

Imagine having an unlimited service that's unlimited. That's more international friendly. Not this limited to 2G crap. Seriously, have you used 2G cell data recently?

Now, you do pay for what you use. For instance, if you pay for 5 gigabytes and you use only 4, you get $10 back. That's pretty cool. But, still, no unlimited plan in this day of data.

They get many things right, but fall too short of what could be an excellent service.

And did I mention it only works on the Nexus 6?