parislemon:

Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.

I should probably explain.

Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That is to say, I don’t hate the concept of Android — in fact, at one point, I loved it. What I hate is what Android has become. And more specifically, what Google has done with Android.

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1. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
4. Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
5. tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L
6. Radiohead - King of Limbs
7. Destroyer - Kaputt
8. Battles - Gloss Drop
9. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
10. Beirut - The Riptide
11. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
12. The Antlers - Burst Apart

Notable Mentions

• Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
• Little Dragon - Ritual Union
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
• Wild Flag - Wild Flag
• The Decemberists - The King is Dead

1. Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
2. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
5. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
6. of Montreal - False Priest
7. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
8. Yeasayer - Oddblood
9. Owen Pallet - Heartland
10. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
11. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
12. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
13. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
14. The National - High Violet
15. MGMT - Congratulations

Notable Mentions

• Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit
• Foals - Total Life Forever
• The Black Keys - Brothers
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Caribou - Swim

It is very, very, very difficult to cancel a LA Fitness membership. If you go into your gym location to cancel, they will give you a piece of paper to physically mail to their company headquarters and tell you that is the only way to cancel. You can’t call to cancel over the phone, email or fax the form, or just cancel online.

About 2 years ago I was a member of LA Fitness and wanted to go to a gym that opened up closer to me, so I went to the gym and they told me I had to mail that form. Instead, I just called their customer service line and they canceled me over the phone. Fast forward a couple years, that gym closes and I join LA Fitness again. Which brings me to now, I moved out of state and they don’t have any locations here. I call their corporate headquarters and the woman who answered told me they no longer have a customer service line and it was not possible to cancel over the phone anymore. 

So after lots of headache, I canceled without having to mail anything. I first tried to annoy them on Twitter:

No response. So then I found COO of LA Fitness, Dion Gentile’s email on Jigsaw and proceeded to send an email:

Today, I get a call from someone at the LA Fitness I was trying to cancel at. The woman who talked to me canceled me right there on the phone. If you ever need to cancel your membership and they tell you they can’t do it right there in the gym, talk to a manager or something because they most definitely have the power to do it in the gym. Here is my confirmation email sent to me seconds after I got off the phone:

I’ll stay fat before I ever give this company money ever again.

Update #1:

Just noticed I got a response earlier today on Twitter from them asking me to email them, probably from the stuff I put on Twitter.

Update #2:

Dion Gentile is not the COO of LA Fitness (which is what Jigsaw told me) but rather the District VP of Georgia. If you are going to email a corporate person, try looking for the person in your state.

I recently read your “Thoughts on Flash” article and was wondering since you talk about open standards, will iTunes ever have FLAC support? I ask this because the ALAC is a proprietary format and is not very friendly with certain applications, like Subsonic.

Sincerely,
Jose Perez 

The only reason I still use iTunes is because of my iPod and I’m sure my car’s stereo won’t play nicely with Rockbox. 

He never responded.