Big, huge, enormous, tremendous, outrageous day today, as Apple releases the best thing ever in the whole wide world: the iPhone 4g. The 4g will do all the things that the old, crappy ones should have done in the first place (not Flash, though; f*ck you, Adobe!), so if you have the old iPhone, you officially now own a piece of shit that you should be ashamed to seen using in public. Yep, yesterday you thought you were cool as you sat down at Starbucks with your $5 cup of shitty coffee, whipped out your iPhone, and downloaded your free Frappuccino® Beverage Music mix on iTunes. Today? Meh. You’re just another loser who might as well be using a CB radio.
It may seem kind of unfair that your old iPhone became obsolete before your two-year commitment was even up, but, well, that’s the price you pay if you wanna be the coolest kid on the block. Not to worry though, that smug, snotty son-of-a-bitch over in the corner trying to look like he’s not trying to be noticed with his new phone as he sips his nonfat milk and sugar-free vanilla Caramel Macchiato and nibbles his Chocolate Chunk Cookie will be in the same boat by next Christmas, when the next bestest thing ever comes out.
The other big news today, of course, is the NBA draft. The only thing any real basketball fan cares about is who Wes Johnson gets picked by. We’re kind of hoping for a reunion with Jonny Flynn out in Minnesota as the #4 pick (thereby making the T-Wolves my official favorite NBA team, dropping the Denver Nuggets into the #2 spot) , but the NJ Nets have been making some noise about taking him at #3, and even Doug Collins of the Sixers made a little noise about taking him at #2 (Philadelphia is my sentimental NBA favorite, since, as we all know, they were originally the Syracuse Nationals). Around these parts, we’re also hoping that Andy Rautins gets picked up by somebody in the second round.
The world’s longest tennis match ever continues at Wimbledon today, as John Isner and Nicolas Mahut pick up where they left off yesterday – tied at 59 games apiece in the fifth set. I hope they keep going for a few more days. They might wanna re-think that whole “you gotta win by two games” thing, though.
Good thing you don’t have to win by two in soccer, or you’d never know how long those damn matches would last. Come to think of it, you don’t actually know when they’ll end now. I mean, they have a clock, so you’d think that when time runs out, the game would be over. But the referees apparently keep some sort of double-secret extra time clock, and only they know when the damn thing will end (personally, I think they make that shit up).
But, despite getting screwed out of yet another goal yesterday, the American team managed to not only win their match against whoever the hell they were playing, but win their division or unit or whatever the heck it is they call it. So, they get a better draw in round two. Or something. I don’t know. I admit to not really following (or even caring about) soccer or the World Cup, but, hey, any excuse for a little jingoism, right? So, “USA! USA! USA!” and all that.
Speaking of jingoism, despite the weirdness with McChrystal yesterday, I think we’re all really, really excited to have Petraeus in charge of Afghanistan. I think that, ‘cuz that’s what they told me on the teevee. He’s gonna bring the ‘success’ he had in Iraq over to Afghanistan. Li’l Lindsey Graham (who I think has a man crush on the good General; Lindsey was all dewy-eyed and aquiver when he spoke, and his mascara was kinda running) says Petraeus is our “best hope” to make things right. God bless you, General, and God bless the United States of America.
Speaking of the good old US of A, Homeland Security is going to start using unmanned (but will they be unarmed?) drones to patrol the border. If you’re kinda Mexican looking and you’re down that way, I suggest you tape your birth certificate to the top of your hat so they can read it as they fly over. Otherwise you might get a Hellfire missile or two tossed your way. Oh, and if Afghanistan is any indication, I wouldn’t be having any wedding parties near the border. Could ruin your special day.
Speaking of ruining the day, I have to go ruin mine by going to work.
This morning is yet another adventure in computing. The places that offer free wifi seem to be very concerned that the cows may start stealing their wifi and so they try all sorts of ridiculous password enabling which merely frustrates me. But today, the computer swore I had no internet access and yet here I am. Confused but online.
We’re off to Kentucky and possibly West Virginia.
whats wrong with a cb radio? and what if i dont have crap ass att O.o my palm pre seems fine………
July first we’re going to Cape Fairweather. It’s about a ten hour run, and we may stay up to ten days. Definetly won’t have cell service then.
Just as those who bring the hate the most to their anti-gay agenda, I wonder….., if those who bring the hate to IPhone aren’t secretly lusting a little for the shiny ornament under the Apple tree: or maybe someone just needed some better coffee.
Not sayin’ just sayin’. :doh:
written on an HP Pavillion which I couldn’t be more happy with.
Can’t we just all get along :blues: ?
This just in from bartcop who’s been off the internet for about a week.
Random thought…
I wish every product I bought worked half as well as our Toyota and our Honda.
My TV has a sliver of the bottom of the screen at the top – damn distracting.
If a guy is wearing an orange shirt, there’s a stripe of orange over his head.
About 10% of the time, my DVD players says, “This DVD cannot be played or recorded,”
which means whatever you had on that DVD is now gone forever.
My iPhone has some nice features, but the phone is pure shit, it’s just awful,
much worse than the cheap-ass phone that I threw away because I couldn’t
get a signal in the middle of goddamn Times Square.
Plus, that stupid iPhone is always calling somebody for no reason.
I’m driving to get Bixby corn and I hear a voice inside my pants.
It was my buddy Wiseguy, asking me to speak up.
The stupid phone just dials at random times and I hate that.
My computer? Don’t even ask.
I’ve been staring at an hourglass since 2005 and I paid $5K for this piece of shit.
My garage door often reopens after it closes, so we have to sit there
and watch it until we’re sure it’s not going to open up again.
My Cox Cable ISP comes and goes. It shuts down several times per hour
then it comes back up but what a f-ing hassle. Same for the TV picture.
Several channels are always pixelated – they say they can’t fix it.
The buttons on my year old XM Radio receiver no longer work.
The mouse on my radio computer died in mid-edit,
killing the chances of getting BCR up last Thursday.
But after six years, the used cars we bought in 2004 still run like brand new.
I wish every product I bought worked half as well as our Toyota and our Honda.
Note: That was written before my computer melted.
ART!! HOLY :crap: !!!
My Droid works GREAT (so far) on my handy-dandy-brand-new Hyundai Elantra Touring Car for podcasts and hands free calling BUT I got some very similar button-pushing issues because I’m still figuring out the “press this picture to call this person” shit and the way that I put my phone into whatever pocket it’s going into (dependent on whether I am taking the doggies to the doggie park or taking myself to work at the Miracle Center) affects how the buttons may be accidentally pushed and call people I didn’t really want to talk to because of the construction of the receptacle I shoved the damn phone into.
Too goddam much shit to have to worry about!! 😮 😮
AND the goddam Garage Door — totally with ya, Buddy — I have the defective garage door opener (PJ has the one that works — the plastic case of the one I have shattered years ago) that I have it encased in duct tape to keep the battery in place and the little thingie that presses down on the radio signaller broke forever ago so I have to press down on the duct tape covering until I find the battery connection that powers the radio signal that powers the garage door to go up/down and most of the time it will start but then say “how do I know I can trust you” and then STOP and then I press on the goddam thingie until something happens and the does something and either opens all the way or totall shuts down. Then it opens and it closes and it closes or it opens….. WTF!!!! Then I utter expletives and dig out my garage door key and open the goddam garage door after I shut down the god-awful hot van with the dogs in it while I have to unlock the goddam people garage door & run inside to push themanual switch to open the garage door & run back out to the van to open the door so the dogs can go inside the house. Whew! What a :fu: ing hassle!!
This :crap: is WAY more involved than it should be!!
Hope your computer hasn’t totally melted and that your Toyota & Honda are still holding up. Love my new Hyundai Elantra so far but have not been able to bond with XM yet because I have become a podcast junkie since the antenna on my old Hyundai Accent broke off and I stopped listening to “regular” radio.
Even though I don’t show up much here, I just want to say that I do follow along with Morning Seditionists and this is where my heart is. :love: all of you guys and, thanks to the :love: of my life, PJ, I was drawn to Morning Seditionists and all of you wonderful people all over the North American continent and all over this very challenged Planet. This has been an amazing journey and I pray we all continue to stick together to keep the Morning Seditionist train on the progressive track!! :fist:
:love: you all, Seditionistas!
Love your new chapeau, O-Kat, and love all of you guys. We are part of molding the new world we need to move into.
Over & Out for now. Love you all. Good Night & Good Luck :blues:
Granny- that was a post from another blog bartcop.com) not mine I hope pj doesn’t mind but holy :crap: it was great to hear from you :yippee:
That was quite a rant!
I’m glad to hear about your Hyundai- if my CRV with 175000 ever craps out, I’ve been reading some good things about Hyandai and for the price, seems like a good buy.
Also, that hubby of yours has turned into a pretty good writer. I really look forward to reading his rant every morning :dancers:
:love: you back for fighting the good fight :banana:
I guess it doesn’t get said enough but the first thing I do in the morning is grab my hand me down almost obsolete iPhone :omg: (well, maybe the second thing) and dial up what sauter has to say.
Perfect way to start my day.
:banana: