Rantings of Stu

Some of you may recall my run for the Presidency in 2008. That did not turn out so well. One of my major blunders was entering the race too late.

Well, I am nothing if not a learner from my past foolishnesses. Therefore, I have begun my campaign for the 2012 election a little early.

If you’d like to support me, please send $730 million my way. That should practically guarantee me a win! If you are unable to do that, then you can still support me by following me on Twitter, my Stu The Wise for President blog, on YouTube, or becoming a fan of my Facebook page.

If I can get a million fans on Facebook, America will be FORCED to make me President!

Thanks to all my supporters. Together, we can take America back from the corrupt politicians in Washington and give it to me!

Okay, so a couple months ago my iPhone, which I had unlocked to use on the T-Mobile network, stopped receiving picture MMS messages, instead sending me the following message in place of the image:

• The media content was not included due to a picture resolution or message size restriction.

Well, initially I just ignored and hoped it was just a temporary issue. After a couple months, I was still unable to receive picture messages — although I was able to send them without any problem. Tired of not getting my friends’ nasty, perverted sexually explicit animated image forwards, I decided to see if there was a solution. Well, I found one.

Someone at T-Mobile posted this solution on the T-Mobile user forums. Give it a shot and see if it works for you.

It didn’t work for me. As I investigated further, it seemed that others were experiencing success. The difference between them and me? I was running iPhone 3.0 firmware, they were running 3.1.2 which, as of this writing, is the latest update.

So I updated to 3.1.2 and went through the jailbreak/unlock process, installed the Legacy software mentioned on the T-Mobile user forum, rebooted, and BOOYAH! Picture messages started coming through.

Now, if you are running older firmware and need to update, but aren’t sure how to jailbreak and unlock your phone, then you have a few options:

1. Learn how to do it by searching for tutorials online
2. Find somebody who is willing to do it for you
3. Check out the Automatic iPhone Unlocker

Option is kind of tough. I found that out for myself when I first got an iPhone about a year ago. This is largely due to the fact that most tutorials are made by hackers and hackers… well, they don’t explain things in laymen terms very well, nor are they interested in doing so. These guys are hardcore geeks, and they like talking with other geeks in geek speak. But feel free to give it a shot.

Option two isn’t a bad choice. Some T-Mobile distributors will unlock your iPhone for a fee. Call around and ask. You’ll also find a lot of people willing to do it for you for a fee if you search your local Craig’s List.

Option three isn’t what it sounds like. It’s not an automatic unlocker. What it really is is a step-by-step walkthrough for how to unlock your iPhone in easy-to-follow layman’s terms. This is the option that I decided to take. I figured I might have to be unlocking my phone on a regular basis, so I wanted to learn how.

Please note that the link to the Automatic iPhone Unlocker website is an affiliate link. If you don’t want me to get credit for referring you to it, you can search for it on Google or elsewhere. But if you appreciate the information that I’ve provided, I’d really appreciate the credit.

Anyway, hope this helped. Good luck!

I know there are a couple people that have been anxiously awaiting my review of this sidearm. Well, after 5 months of ownership and several hundred rounds fired off, here it is! (more…)

So I took an online quiz to rate my NLHE (No Limit [Texas] Hold Em) poker skills.

If you’d like to take the quiz yourself, check it out here: http://is.gd/3qNTZ

If you want to take the quiz, stop reading right now, because I’m about to reveal the answers. (more…)

I remember a time when you would visit the Sconecutter in Orem late at night (which I often did back in the day when I worked graveyards) and there would be several questionable looking fellows working the drive thru. Thing was, these long-haired druggy looking freaks took the greatest of care in putting your order together. No finer sandwiches were ever built! (more…)

On August 27, 2009, I pondered, “What would happen if I really tweeted the way that Twitter haters say all tweeples tweet?” Following that, I announced my intention to, “…do it as an experiment starting tomorrow.”

At 22:28 that same night I stated, as a warning, “Alright my friends and followers, my tweeting-like-a-real-twerson(???) experiment begins tomorrow morning. It’s gonna get nasty!” (more…)

So with all the talk about tough economic times and the government spending money like the end of the world is nigh upon us, I pondered ways for the government to save money.

Some of the ideas included things like buying hammers for $12 at Home Depot instead of $12,000 from the guy with the lucrative government contract. But I think my best idea came when I discovered a way to save taxpayers $93,090,000 per year. (more…)

This has been a great summer for movies: Star Trek, Transformers 2, Wolverine. As a dedicated Trekkie and Marvel Comics geek, those three were the big ones for me.

But there are a slew of upcoming movies yet to come that I am pretty hard up for. (more…)

So I saw that a FaceBook friend of mine had taken a FaceBook intelligence quiz and got the result of “genius.” Personally, I hate FaceBook quizzes and so generally try to ignore them. However, that there was one that supposedly tested your intelligence… well, I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make fun of it! (more…)

Those who know me know I hate chain letters. And not just the ones that try and scam you out of money. I hate them ALL!

Usually, I just ignore them. But every once in a while, I’ll shoot a little something back. That was the case with this chain letter (which I actually got about a year ago). (more…)