Iphone, you think you’re so great.

(Credit: Larry Magid)

I’ve had an iPhone 4S for eh…about two months, I guess…and it’s cool. But Siri, (the main component that adds that “S” to the end of my phone’s name) isn’t quite as brilliant as the commercials make her look. You can ask her a handful of questions with sensible answers. The rest are…well, quite comical if you ask me.

Check out this interview that Siri graciously agreed to do with CBS News & CNET. Impressive or annoying? I will let you be the judge. Let’s just say…Siri definitely needs some work before she re-introduces herself on the next Apple iPhone.

Listen to it below. Read full article here.

Forget about the price tag?

written by: stacia_doss.
It seems nearly impossible to do so in professional sports. (Now begins my rant…) Price tags determine who will be on your “Championship-bound” team and sometimes even determine if the team will even continue to exist (in that particular city). Such is the case of the St. Louis Rams.

One. yard. short.

Before I moved to the area, I didn’t care too much about the Rams. All’s I remembered is them beating the Titans in the Superbowl years ago. (How could I forget that image to the right?) I didn’t really follow baseball, either, but I have allowed myself to be slightly sucked into the Cardinals’ news and Rams news, too. Not too long ago, I was informed that the Rams team will likely leave the city in 2014 if significant improvements are not soon made to the Edward Jones dome. In the long run, the city gains revenue from the Rams being around, but hey, they will probably be gone. From living in Greater St. Louis, I see the professional baseball fans around here far outweigh the football ones anyway.

Back to the Cardinals. I also was particularly and almost involuntarily aware of its latest Pujols fiasco. The battle to get him…who would put up the most money? It was all over the news in multiple stories. Frankly, I didn’t care, but I downloaded a local news app simply to enter an Ipad 2 contest and got a surprise “update notice” the next morning. It was Breaking News that Albert Pujols had signed a ten year contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He was drafted by the Cardinals in 2001, and he was ready for a change. Plus, the Angels clearly put a bigger “price tag” up for Pujols. People got a little sad around here, some even hostile, but hey, I’m happy for the guy.

Those are just two fine examples of how forgetting about the price tag is nearly impossible in sports. “Dream teams” only exist when they’re not dreamt up and pieced together on purpose. Real dreams of teams come together over time.  

I’m ecstatic that the NBA Lockout is over, but the past five days have brought my head spinning. Tyson Chandler to the (New York) Knicks, Lamar Odom to Dallas (Mavericks), Chris Paul to the…Who knows now? And Dwight Howard begging to be out of Orlando. Price tags…and dream teams. They go hand-in-hand, I suppose.

You can expect my next post to be more uniform than this, but I had to get that off my chest. It’s been a while.