This Blog Sucks

Well super now I can blog about stupid shit anytime, anywhere! I knew Wordpress would come through with a free (and really well-done) app to make this happen. Too bad this blog is 100% pointless.

Here’s a picture of Terry the Dog’s mouth. And I did all this from my phone. Whoa.

Yesterday I was determined to get an iPhone 3G so I made some phone calls… everyone in Chicago was sold out… and I was about to give up until some guy at the Apple Store in Deer Park (a little north of Palatine) said they had just gotten an “extremely small shipment”.

I hauled ass to the store which took about an hour and, after waiting in a short line for about 30 minutes, a store employee was helping me set up my new white 16 gb iPhone! Sweet. I would have preferred black but whatever.

It’s great that the iPhone is basically a mini porn machine, but all the other bells & whistles are what make it so fucking cool. In fact this device is so cool that I kind of feel like a douchebag being seen with it in public! That feeling will go away eventually, but right now I can’t help but think people are watching me tap away at the screen and they’re thinking “omg that guy looks like a gigantic douchebag”, kind of how I used to look at people who walk around with a bluetooth earpiece on their head.

So far my favorite features are the GPS location mapping and all the 3rd party apps that can be downloaded directly on the phone from the App Store.

This is the free crap I’ve already installed:

Pandora - iPhone version of Pandora.com’s music genre player
Facebook - Stripped down version of the site
AOL Radio - Plays live radio from various stations around the country
Last.fm - iPhone version of Last.fm’s music player
Light - Just turns the screen white so the phone can be used to see things in the dark
TapTap - Stupid game that will probably get uninstalled shortly
BoxOffice - Finds local movie theaters and showtimes, and also has movie synopses
Shazam - “Listens” to music that I’m hearing in the real world and tells me what song it is
SportsTap - Tracks live sports scores from all the major sports
Midomi - Basically the same as Shazam, so one will get uninstalled eventually
Yelp - Finds local restaurants, bars, etc. from Yelp’s website
Google - Google search tool made for iPhone
NYTimes - News & crap
eBay - iPhone-optimized version of the site
YPmobile - Yellow Pages search

GPS assists some of these applications, such as BoxOffice and Yelp.

I definitely couldn’t get this on my old piece of shit phone

I’m not exactly known as Mr. Hygiene but I’m also not a fan of excess body hair, ie: the pubic jungle I just recently trimmed down. This rogue nosehair may be hard to spot in the video below but, believe me, it was there and it was proudly hanging out of my right nostril. And no, this is NOT a hint that you should get me a nosehair trimmer for Christmas. As you can see I prefer to get to the “root” of the problem even if it means a little suffering.

I kinda saw this coming. I got in line at 7:40 am behind at least 100 other people. About 10 minutes later some AT&T guy came out and told us they wouldn’t have enough iPhones to go around so we should come back later! Oh well. Better to get brushed off early than sit in line for 2 hours for nothing.

The bald guy in the gray sweatshirt below was one of the people I saw last night… turns out he showed up at 8 pm. DUMBASS!! I’ll gladly wait a day or three rather than spend a night sleeping on the sidewalk.

I was just out doing some late-night running around… drop off the rent check, return a movie at Blockbuster, score some crack, that kind of thing… so I decided to swing by the AT&T store to make sure I know where it is before I go there tomorrow to get an iPhone. It wasn’t even midnight and there were already two people waiting outside their door!! Geeeeezzzzzz. It’s just a piece of hardware.

I’ll try to be there when they open up at 8 am but in the very likely event that I oversleep and can’t get my shiny new phone tomorrow, I’ll get it later. No big deal.

It gets hot down there in this weather - I’ll spare you the pictures (you’re welcome!).

Friday last week I had yet another BBQ thing at my place and a lot of the same people from last time showed up. Once again it was a good time and once again we started running out of booze around 1 am so Clayton and Keskay were nice enough to go on a beer run. Next time I’m getting a keg! Well, a half keg which, according to my googling, equals about 75-80 beers. And the irony of having two parties in two weeks is that my apartment has never been so clean.