Assay the Essay: December 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

My first Android Market app

To enjoy vicariously the thousands of new Android users this Christmas, I've posted my first app to the Android Market! I don't think it will be the big sell (it's free, after all), but I had fun making it and hope it brings some fun to fellow football fans as well.

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Galaxy Tab Emulator

The latest and greatest Android tools release brings with it a new emulator—and none other than the Galaxy Tab. I got to handle one of those tabs at the AT&T store recently and now understand what's generated all the buzz behind the tab. Alas, I don't have the funds to take one home with me, but I can cough up the bandwidth for a new emulator. Here's a peek at what tXtFL would look like on the Galaxy Tab.

Notable Quotable

"This club with a shortage of ego and an excess of character ascended to baseball's throne in the way it preferred, with a collaborative performance." (Chris Haft, on the San Francisco Giants' 2012 World Series victory)
"In a society that craves results now, in a world that demands excellence every day, head coaches rarely are allowed the time they need to grow into the job and master it. Reminders of it come every year at this time. Head coaches are fired, head coaches are hired and the coaching carousel spins without producing in the ways NFL owners had hoped." (Adam Shefter, on the "coaching carousel" of rapid coaching firing/hiring after the season)
"A perennial danger among contemporary students of the New Testament is to overlook the two-thousand-year history of debate and interpretation generated by these twenty-seven books. The pressure to be up-to-date with the voluminous contemporary literature, combined with the penchant endemic to twenty-first-century Western culture to revere the innovative, even the faddish, and be suspicious of the traditional, conspires to blind us to our connections with twenty centuries of Christian readers." (Carson DA & Moo DJ, An Introduction to the New Testament, p. 31)