Sunday, July 8, 2007, 10:15 AM - Random Thoughts
Why don't want an iPhone?
-- $600 price tag when most other PDA/Phone hybrids cost $300-$350.
-- Proprietary SIM card means you're stuck with ATT forever.
-- Slow Class-6 EDGE means your connection speed will be more like dial-up and less like ISDN.
-- No IM, MMS means you won't be chatting with your friends.
-- No handwriting recognizer means that composing email will be a real chore.
-- No expansion slot for SD or Memory Stick. This means you have to choose between Storing music or installing 3rd Party applications.
-- It only works with iTunes. They charge a dollar a track and they encode at 128K for that high-price, mediocre music listening experience. Rhapsody is a dime cheaper and they encode at 192K. The) also let you redownload your paid-for music if your computer dies.
The funky headset port really limits your listening options.
-- ATT won't fix this phone if there are warranty problems, and Apple charges to do so.
-- The iPhone calling plans are all $20 more expensive than a non-iPhone plan with the same number of minutes. You have to pay more for the priviledge of owing a status symbol!
I think I'll stick with my Nokia E62.
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( 3 / 1176 )Friday, July 6, 2007, 10:52 PM
My friend Jeff and I went to Six Flags recently and we were pretty disappointed. Most of the rides weren't working. Superman, Two Face, and Wild One were 100% offline. Joker's Jinx was running on a single shuttle. Many of the smaller rides were also down. Both roller coaster/ water hybrids were down for the count. The bumper cars had only 7 functioning cars. It was all just downright disappointing.
Basically, Jeff and I rode all of the interesting rides by 12:30. We didn't eat lunch there because the prices were just outrageous. We both have season passes. Hopefully conditions will improve later this summer.
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( 3 / 1240 )Thursday, July 5, 2007, 09:09 PM
I finally saw the wreckage of my brother's Cutlass. Wow! It was some heck of a wreck! I am really glad he survived and had only minor injuries.
Wreck-1
Wreck-2
Wreck-3
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( 3 / 1249 )Thursday, July 5, 2007, 06:13 PM
I visited my mom, brother, and cousin this week for Treason Day (God Save the Queen!) We saw a real stinker of a movie yesterday, called Dark Harvest.
Wow was it a bad film! It's a story about some 24-year-old college punk who inherits a creepy old dustbowl farm from the 1930s. Of course, the whole place was in amazingly good shape considering that it had been abandoned for 70 years. His four useless friends accompany him,. The pot-smoking and beer swilling commences, and some old hag warns that the farm is haunted.
midnight comes and all of the scarecrows start mowing down the useless teens. The scarecrows were the most passionless, disinterested monsters i have ever seen. The college punks were ultra-shallow and one even had a super-fake British accent. Why? Why?!
this movie got a rating of 2.2 on a 1-10 scale on IMDB, but I think that was generous!
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( 3 / 1307 )Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 09:56 AM
The hillarious thing is that I have a friend who is the biggest pro-England person I've ever met. He calls the Revolutionary War the "War of Colonial Aggression". He flies the Union Jack from his flagpole. Finally, he referrs to this day as "Treason Day". Ha ha ha ha!!![ 1 comment ] ( 2 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 2.9 / 1074 )Monday, July 2, 2007, 07:06 PM
I'm taking a walk around the neighborhood since the weather is really nice this evening. And I can blog from my cell phone. Yay! It's sunny but it's not too hot out and the humidity is pretty low -- for Baltimore. I haven't even seen any giant rats this evenng, or any crack-whores. All in all, a nice 3.5 mile walk.
i didn't hear anything about the Case Agent job that I applied for. I don't have a huge chance, but it's at least a possibility
doug comes home in six days. Yay!
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( 3 / 1023 )Sunday, July 1, 2007, 01:52 PM
I really do want to be able to run a marathon. But ever since my knee injury two weeks ago, all I've been able to muster since then is 4 miles at a time. It's not my joints that hurt, but rather the tendons near my knee joints that start hurting. And I'm afraid that 20 miles of exercise per week won't be enough to keep my weight off. I don't want to get fat again. I don't want to be one of those pudgy, broken-down people that I loathe. Besides, I want to live to be 165 years old![ 1 comment ] ( 4 views ) | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 3 / 985 )Sunday, July 1, 2007, 10:35 AM - Cool Stuff
I finished writing Chapter 45 of " I, Construct". In this episode, Frank gets haunted by the spirit of a murdered woman.
Chapters 41-45
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( 3 / 1143 )Sunday, July 1, 2007, 10:29 AM
Doug will be away for a week because he is helping take care of his sister who just got home from the hospital after setting breast cancer surgery done. Doug is a better person than Iam and is a vastly better person than Heather (his sister). The "Creature"; as I sometimes call her, is one of the few individuals I've met that have zero redeeming features. She snorts cocaine, smokes, drinks, curses, and lies.She's lazy, greedy and selfish. She's a glutton and a spendthrift. She's a racist, bigot, and homophobe. She cant hold down a job because of her nasty temper.
But Doug offered to help her during this difficult tine in her life, despite the fact that I know she would never lift a finger to ever help him in anyway, no matter how great or trivial.
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( 3 / 974 )Sunday, June 24, 2007, 06:14 PM
I had an odd dream last night that involved a war traitor. The dream took place in World War II and all the imagery was in a weird flickering black-and-white, like the old news reels from the early 1940s.
There was a man who stole a file containing troop movement plans and he had intended to give it to a German agent. But he had been shot during the theft and the file was lost. He evaded his pursuers and managed to limp his way to a hospital for treatment for his gunshot wound. He had been shot in the abdomen.
He used a fake name at the hospital so that the doctorss would treat his injuries. But some
Some nurse recognized him and called the War Department. An assassin was sent to kill the traitor. The dream ended before the assassin arrived to the hospital.
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