welcome to side-swype

I've used swype for text input on my android phones for years.  it's fast, it's easy.  I haven't measured my speed, but I'll bet I'm in the 35wpm neighborhood for input (my graduating speed from typing class in jr. high, coincidentally enough).  the only REAL problem with it is it requires absolute attention and two hands (yet another way a keyboarded hiptop was better than screen input).

I have a new phone now (samsung galaxy S III ... gotta great deal on it from boost*, $100 new on cyber monday) and have set up something I've never really tinkered with before: word prediction on my swype interactions.  it CAN be faster, but it's mostly clumsy and distracting.

the other day I TXTed special K and instead of writing the phrase I was intending, I just followed the starting word with "interesting" suggestions ... an effect I call side-swyping.

here, for your viewing pleasure, is the world's 1st side-swype:

b1-66er: I'm always glad you can DEFINITELY reset my phone number to Linda.

parentage phrase: "I'm using word prediction on swype."

I'll post some of these over the coming days ... always just hitting special K with some bizarreness.  don't worry, he deserves it.

I'll cut down on them once I'm bored.  it won't take long.

* if you're thinking about boost mobile (cheap pre-paid cellular, running on the sprint network), you get something like $25 (and so do I), for using this referral link:
https://refer.boostmobile.com/XpyRUk

a new definition of "lost"

b1-67er: It's so weird people gamble to win money but dont care what the odds are. It's like orienteering without a compass.

blazing crosses

b1-66er: who's the world's most famous jew?  jesus?

special K: It ain't Mel Brooks.

what's behind that badge?

the 'grid: No justice no booty.
No booty no peace.

put it on the floor!

b1-66er: I nearly created a riot in my barber shop just now.  they didn't quite get all my neck hair off, so I went back...

a different -but friendly- barber-ess took me.  I said, "i was just here, my neck hair didn't quite get trimmed"....

the girlie started asking questions, I said, "look, i don't care how ratchet you make it.  I just need the hair off so it doesn't look like a weed field"...

the barber says, "EXCUSE ME!?" 

I said, "you heard me." 

she screamed, "I'LL MAKE IT TOE UP FROM THE FLO' UP!"

and the place ERUPTS in absolute chaos.  the woman screams, "DID YOU HEAR WHAT HE SAID!?"

I said, "i almost wish I just had wild hair on me."

and the woman leans in real real close, whispering in my ear, almost nibbling on it, and says in a very very sultry and quiet voice...

"I'm funnier than you."

... nice tie, though ...

the 'grid: No justice no peace.

b1-66er: there's no peace at home.  my housemate's lying down in a DEEP funk (and I don't mean the ohio players kind).  we watched the verdict.  I thought she was going to throw up.

'g: It is an unfortunate decision but to see the ass whores tear up the city is worse in my opinion. It is like the two riots in Los Angeles revisited.

b1: yes.  I've never understood rioting.  (including winning/losing chapionships.)  it seems like it "punishes" unnecessary targets ...
... and fundamentally doesn't help the cause.  having said that, it's not completely clear to me what good the gandhi/king approach is either ...
... not unless you REALLY get on it.  TOTAL black-folk walk-out would be interesting.

'g: I like how Jackson plays the King role but is a race baiter. He perpetuates more shit within the desperate and underserved black communities than does any good.

b1: so right.  he's such a strange man.  being on the same balcony as MLK when he caught a bullet doesn't make you a great man by default...
...it absolutely DOES make you a "near miss."

'g: Yes. He should continue to count his blessings and stop being an ass.

any colour tim likes

special K: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay
b1-66er: yeah, I don't understand that (or why it's news).  as my friend the 'grid said, "gay is the new black."
K: It's news because it's novel, lurid, and Apple.
b1: I've never said I'm proud to be heterosexual. or white. or theist.
I'm NOT proud to be american. I'm actually ashamed of it.  I don't like our overbearing presence on the rest of the world.
K: Go for it.
b1: "go for it" to what end?  to show that all people are different?  to promote disharmony?
to me, I don't consider this to be news ... in the same way I don't consider a rash of break-ins in rock springs, WY to be news.
tim and I have an uneven and predatory relationship.  he tries to sell me an item.  I try to sell him nothing.
K: It's not news to me.
b1: then why are we talking about it?  if he has a horn sticking out of his head, I don't care. 
(and he'll still try to sell me something.)