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Subject: wife got me a kindle fire for my birthday
and i want to kick it across the room. why anyone (other than apple) thought it was a cool idea to create a tablet and intentionally gimp the crap out of it is beyond me. i'm taking it to italy on vacation tomorrow to use as an ereader and convenient web browser/email. if i like it, i'll root it when i get back so i can actually install real apps. otherwise it's going back.

sadly, my 2 year old gets my galaxy tab 10.1 so he has cooler technology than i do.

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I'm guessing you can take the 2 year old in a fight so I don't see what the problem is.

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^ LOL

 

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2 year old being able to watch movies in the car is more important than my nerdrage.

 

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Where in Italy are you going? I was stationed there for two years in the military. If you aren't going to Florence you might as well not go IMO.

Be sure to give a detailed trip report.

 

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Happy Birthday

 

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I really feel terrible that your wife sent me nudies of herself for my birthday. Would you feel better if I shared them?

Happy bday and if you are coming to Italy, look me up! I am here for a few more days or so.

 

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we're doing rome, bologna, verona. milan. we've already been to venice and florence. might go to venice for an afternoon if Verona is weak.

i'm hoping to achieve a pasta and gelato coma within the first couple of days.

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If you go to Venice, there is a little city about thirty miles north called Azzano Decimo. It was the tenth city Attila the Hun pillaged when he came to Italy laugh . Mia cuginetta (my cousin lives there) . That is my mothers side of the family's home town.

 

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we're doing rome, bologna, verona. milan. we've already been to venice and florence. might go to venice for an afternoon if Verona is weak.

i'm hoping to achieve a pasta and gelato coma within the first couple of days.

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Jeebus how long are you staying? That's a lot of cities for a two week trip.

You could spend a year in Florence or Rome or Milan and not see half of what there is to see.

 

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8 days. we're running this trip with soviel style efficiency. just cramming a nice trip in before we're locked down with the birth of kid #2 in july.

 

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Holy shit a 2 year old and a pregnant wife on a 12 hour flight?

Well it's 12 hours from the east coast, youre in CA right?

Bring a parachute

 

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the 2 yr old is staying home with grandma. wife is only 25 weeks so she'll be fine.

it'll be a good break. get to sleep a little bit before i don't sleep again for god knows how long.

 

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Well take lots of pics and do a trip report for sure.

I saw Alice In Chains with special guest Soundgarden in Milan, wish I'd done more while I was there.

 

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The Kindle Fire is a nice reader/Amazon shopper. Amazon tried to catch the tablet wave and market the Fire as a real tablet, but, it isn't. It appears to be very good at what it is originally designed to do, but, mediocre at its expanded scope.


 

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i'll never understand people who read books on tablets. or people who buy the amazon fire or nook tablet with no desire to root it into something decent.

 

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wow talk about spoiled. Hope you didnt say crap to your wife about her gift.

 

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Your wife got you tablet of inferior technology so your toddler can have 600$ tablet for a toy? I think you got a case for an divorce settlement right there.

 

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i also don't understand why the toddler would get the bigger and better tablet if all it's going to do is watch videos.

 

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Where in Italy are you going? I was stationed there for two years in the military. If you aren't going to Florence you might as well not go IMO.

Be sure to give a detailed trip report.


Well, that's a concern for me. I was considering doing a week's vacation in Tuscany in September. It's a cooking vacation which is why Tuscany specifically has been selected. Is it that bad? (Never been to Italy)

 

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i got the galaxy tab for free from google last year and never really came up with a use for it. so i loaded it up with toddler games and movies for my son. my wife got me the fire specifically as an ereader for our trip and for my weekly business trips. i just have a hard time giving up the android device mentality that i should be able to do what i want with it instead of what the manufacturer wants me to do.

 

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The only way an ereader flies for me is with an e-ink screen. I understand ereaders and I understand tablets but hybrids seem utterly nonsensical to me.

 

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yeah, i have a Kindle for only books, and an iPad for everything but reading books

 

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Jorrdan posted:
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Where in Italy are you going? I was stationed there for two years in the military. If you aren't going to Florence you might as well not go IMO.

Be sure to give a detailed trip report.


Well, that's a concern for me. I was considering doing a week's vacation in Tuscany in September. It's a cooking vacation which is why Tuscany specifically has been selected. Is it that bad? (Never been to Italy)


I was stationed in Tuscany at a small base called Camp Darby. It is near Pisa. It's pretty awesome. Florence is also located in Tuscany. I traveled all over Italy and Florence was my favorite city. If I ever return I'll probably do a day trip and catch up on all the sites around Rome but as far as I'm concerned the perfect vacation would be two weeks in Florence.



 

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I have a tablet and an kindle.

one is for internet, one is for reading books.

 

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Florence is a great city but you can't go during tourist season. Same with venice. It's just awful.

 

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I read books on my phone.

Come to think of it I do everything you can do on a tablet on my phone. Can't wait to upgrade to a bigger screen phone later this year.

 

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