Drinking the koolaid

[plural]

so
yeah

I got fed up with my cellphone this weekend
so
I broke down and bought
yup
an
iPhone

I spent most of last night
playing with various features
and
I gotta say
I am using more of them than I thought

considering
I've never owned an iPod
[or any other mp3 player for that matter]
I was rather surprised to find myself using it as one
and
while it was just for shits and giggles
that I downloaded a few podcasts of "This American Life"
I found that it was a great distraction
in the slow moments of the day

all in all
I'm liking the phone
quite a bit more than I thought
so

kudos to the jobbites

Comments

[polarbear.livejournal.com]

I love it for the maps and traffic, the stocks mostly, but it excels at everything.

I have a couple of gripes. Not being able to make custom ringtones of stuff I own for free, not having multiple ring profiles, the way certain menus pop up, but honestly, they are so very minor when it comes to how pleased I am with the thing. It really rocks, and no I haven't drunk the kool-aid. :)

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

I got Jen one for xmas.
I am jealous.
It is way rad.

But then she covets my macbook, so.....

;]

[plural.livejournal.com]

eh I've barely even touch that stuff

mostly been using it as a phone
and playing with photos and music/podcasts

got pretty much the same impression
a few gripes and the occasional wtf
as I try to figure out how to do something

but for the most part
I'm quite happy with it

[plural.livejournal.com]

mutual coveting
is the backbone of a any decent relationship
and
welcome to my insanity
feel free to ignore the lawyers
and their reams of waivers

the jist of it is that
I'm not responsible for any therapy
which results from your reading my
ramblings

Why I hate apple:

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

The news: two new products added to Apple’s line both at $499; an iPhone with 16 gigabytes of memory and an iPod Touch with 32 gigabytes of memory.

I'd lay odds the little ratfuckers at the apple store knew about this, and sold you one anyway (presuming, of course, that you didn't get a 16GB for 499)...

I smell money...

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Consider this WSJ article (it's from today, so if you don't have subscription, you could find it the print):

Loans of Freescale Semiconductor Inc., taken private by a consortium of private-equity firms in December 2006 for about $28 billion, are trading at a 15.5% discount to their original value; Tribune Co., which was taken private in April by investor Sam Zell for $8.2 billion, issued loans now trading a 26% discount.

Apparently, the corporate bond market is in upheaval. Think about that for a minute: Bonds taken out to do a buyout for a perfectly viable company are trading at a 15.5% discount... The reason (if the article is to be believed) is that is the percieved default rate... You be the judge, bubba. I wish I had spare capital, I'd be all over this shit like white on rice.