The R1i Blog: Our Train of Thought

Kojo live At Dremo's 2005

Kojo’s two stand-up videos from 2006 (which got the most views on the youtube.com/R1i channel at 4,732 views & 852 views) have been retired at Kojo’s request

Kojo: …
also, any chance you can retire those old stand-up clips of me on your R1i youtube channel

Shahryar: I can retire those clips if you want.. I would prefer not too since I think they are awesome.. but if you want them down, I can take them down
can I ask why though?

Kojo: yeah, there pretty old and I wanna throw some more recent ones on there by years end

Shahryar: ok, I’ll retire them, but I’m putt ing a blog post up before I retire them
they are my fave sets of yours
and the leading hits on my channel
everyone I show them too is like.. damn

Kojo: hahaha

Shahryar: who’s that
he’s awesome

Kojo: you don’t have to delete them. you can keep them in your personal archives

Shahryar: oh that was going to happen
if yuou asked that
I would lie and say I have deleted it
and then watched it ever night like I usually do before going to bed
“… bring entrees..”

Kojo: hahaha

Shahryar: I haven’t seen you perform in the while
you’re still in the game right?

Kojo: took one foot out, but i’m about to put it back in. You’ll see me out soon

Shahryar: alright.. you’re in my top 3
so don’t leave
you Mauer and Ericmyers
you’re my top black comic if that means anything
if you want to get race involved

Kojo: Mauer is a machine. He has something new everytime i see him

Shahryar: yeah he does

Kojo: thanks man. Your my favorite Pakastani
eff Kumail

Shahryar: lol.. I dont even know who he is

Kojo: exactly

(witness)
Rida: LOL

Apple’s 2008 Insomnia Film Festival will go down on November 15th. You need to be a student to participate and be a part of a team with 4 other students. If anyone’s interested in this, please comment below or drop me a line. I have the following pieces of equipment:

• Canon XH-A1 Camcorder
• 15″ 2.2ghz MacBook Pro
• Final Cut Express HD 3.5 (FCE HD 3.5)
• Sony MZ-RH1 Hi-MD Minidisc Recorder
• K-tek KE110CCR Boom Pole

I just added the Source Festival to our (newly created) “To Participate in” page on the R1i blog.

I first heard about the Source Festival in the Our Picks section of the Washington Post’s Sunday Source on June 26, 2008. They have 24 hour plays and one act plays. I’ve written a one-act play already (The History Lesson – which can be seen here on Google Video). I have wanted to finish writing one more called The Contractor. The Source Festival could be a good reason to do so.

Here are some links on this Festival:

• Source
• Inside Source – the blog for Source
  
• Source Fest Playwrights, Making Every Minute Count, By Peter Marks, Thursday, June 26, 2008
• A Litle Bit of Everything, By Stephanie Merry | June 24, 2008; 11:10 AM ET

Exciting news since I’m not leaving T-mobile anytime soon.

Update: as of 8/3/2008, this is the only helpful post I found on upcoming phones compatible with T-mobile upcoming 3G :

As I posted here, I hope there are some good phones to go with this so I can replace my N76 and Rida’s N82.

If only the E71 would come out w/ T-mobile bands, then Jon could replace his Dash with this (since he wants to stay T-mobile too). Maybe my cousin Shiraz should replace his Q with this though since he wouldn’t mind going T-mobile.

I’ve talked about the E71 before on 6/16/2008 and gave a bunch of few links in that post. Here are some newer links which have come up:

• The latest one on Engadget when the E71 was released to the general public.
• engadgetmobile.com’s post on Chicago’s Flagship store release of the E71
• engadgetmobile.com’s review on the E71 from 6/19/2008

After reading the comments here, I want to attend Comic Con 2009 (as I’ve suggested in this post here).

A game where I can make my own DC hero? hmmm… sounds pretty interesting.

Here’s the link with info on PS3Fanboy. My link specifically is to my comment where I agree with the person above that I’m not interested if there’s a monthly fee.

By the way, this artwork on Superman’s beautiful, no?

Update: 7/28/2008

PS3Fanboy has some footage on the game here.   The comments section has two posts by me, including my thoughts on the best comic book movies here.

I wasn’t too excited about the MK vs. DC Universe game, but after watching the latest feature on the game on gametrailers.com, I’m sort of looking forward to it now. On the Joystiq post, I chimed in both here (mentioning that the gametrailers vid has sold me on this game and here (mentioning fatalities). I laughed here.

Update: The Joker’s added now according to this Joystiq post from 7/25/2008. On a sort of unrelated note, I want to see Autopsy15’s 3 paragraphs on why he thinks the Dark Knight is the one of the best movie ever.

Today over at PS3 Fanboy there was a post in regards to Transformers finally coming out on Blu-Ray. I’m not terribly excited about this (I posted my thoughts here). But I thought it was worth posting about.

I also added on that some of this movie’s shooting in DC as well, which I read in the post a little while back (although I can’t seem to find it on the site).

I myself use two cell phones – my main one being a N76 with T-mobile, my secondary phone being n HTC Mogul for Sprint. It’s a good set up because I do my fast, phone functions on my main phone, and keep the Mogul for my secondary, data intensive functions. The N76 is nice, but I’ve been wanting to replace it for a while with something better.

Nokia’s got two phones coming out, the Nokia E66 ( Engadget’s Post ) and the Nokia E71 ( Engadget’s Post , Engadget Mobile’s Post ) and though they look pretty tempting, I think I’ll hold off on them. Engadget’s got a post on both of these phones via a hands on vid, but I like the comments here discussing the E71. EngadgetMobile’s got the same story w/ hands on vids here, but the comments are pretty dead.

I would give the E66 consideration if it has or gets updated with a T-mobile 3G band. That discussion was briefly started over in the comments in Engadget’s story on the E71, but nothing new after my post. I don’t want a QWERTY keypad on my main phone so that means the E71 would be out for me (even with T-mobile 3G).

My friend Archie wants to get a new phone for T-mobile so he may in the same boat as me.

My cousin Jon wants to replace his refurbished Dash he recently had replaced by T-mobile (he’s been using the Dash since Spring 2007 though). He’s leaning towards the BlackBerry Bold, but I’m telling him to lean towards the E71. Especially since it runs Symbian and that’s my mobile OS of choice. Plus, I could find games and cool apps for him as I dive further into both my N76 and my wife’s N82. One of the driving forces on what choice Jon should make would be which of the phones – the BlackBerry Bold or the Nokia E71 – will have T-mobile’s 3G bands in the future. I made a post over here asking that, but no responses yet.

My friend Mo wants to replace his *cough* Razr with a new phone, but stick with AT&T. I know he’s eying the new iPhone, but I think he’d be a good candidate for either of these phones since (I believe) both phones have AT&T 3G bands.

My cousin Shiraz wants to leave his Motorola Q with Verizon and go with the new iPhone w/ AT&T. I know he doesn’t want T-mobile because of T-mobile’s spotty coverage in Albany where he lives, but I think he should still consider one of these also before biting the bullet on the iPhone 3G.

I’m a big fan of Mac, but don’t think the iPhone’s the best thing out there.

One of the comment’s on Engadget’s story on the Nokia E66 complain about the lack of a subsidy on this phone, but I talked about my run around method to save some money here in this comment. I posted a link to that comment in a similar discussion over on EngadgetMobile’s post on the E71.

If you’re with Verizon, well…

You got the Nokia 6205 coming out (my fave comments are this one and teej’s response to this one). I chimed in too with this comment.

Update: The E71 is now available in North America (as of July 21st). Within the comments on Engadget’s post on this subject, I added onto bachviet’s wish for a T-mobile USA 3G version in my comment here.

Update on 8/25/2008: The Engadget has a post here on suggestions to update the E71. The comments are pretty helpful in getting an idea on what the phone is capable of and what its not.

Update on 9/2/2008: Engadget’s got a new post here discussing the E66 now being carried in Flagship stores. The article says the phone is $540 from them, and on a related note, there’s a comment from ian mcgrady that says the E71 is $490.

Both this comment & This other comment from TareX make me want to buy the phone (as I said in my post below one of his comments). I need T-mobile compatible 3G though.

This post is the funniest post in this thread of cell phone puns. Try to read from the start of the thread up until the post I’m linking too.