Sad, sad news. Dick Cheney’s in the hospital. Thank Lucifer (and modern medicine – when funded with an un-ending supply of money), it doesn’t sound serious though, so I’m sure he’ll be up and oozing around in no time. Just another reason to ban science from textbooks, I guess. Speaking of science, some guy named Larry Dossey (who is a ‘doctor’ so you know he’s very wise and important) has a story in the HuffPost basically saying that, because the conditions for life and the universe to exist as we know it are on very tight parameters, there just must be something out there that set things up for us. Which, of course, is kind of stupid. Because conditions were the way they were, the universe evolved the way it did. Had conditions been different, things, no doubt, would have evolved differently. And then a bunch of egotistical silicon-based funky-looking lifeforms would be insisting that the universe was created by some all-knowing, all-seeing invisible being who created them in his image.
Speaking of egotistical (not to mention silicon-based) entities, Apple’s response to many of their loyal fans’ complaints of totally losing their cell signal when they hold their new iPhone was to tell them they weren’t holding the phone right. Steve Jobs, in particular, seemed to more or less be calling his users idiots (but Steve tends to be pretty terse and testy these days; I think he got infused with some of Dick Cheney’s blood to keep him alive when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer – he’s been kind of on the dark side ever since).
So I was hanging out yesterday, and decided to play with my work-provided BlackBerry (which, sadly, is ATT like the iPhone). I tried holding it every which way – left hand, right hand, both hands, covering it completely, you name it – and I couldn’t get the signal to drop even one bar (let alone drop completely out). Then I tried my LG whatever it is that I never use anymore. Same thing (and that was in my basement). Then I played around with my wife’s Droid. Also, no signal loss. So, I dunno. One might conclude that – assuming there really is a problem with these phones (and for all I know there isn’t; it seems more than possible that a large percentage of iUsers are abnormally dense or something), the antenna design was less the optimal.
Speaking of less-than-optimal design, having only two days off a week really sucks. If I’m gonna get anything done, I guess I better get started.
We’re in Pennsylvania for another day. Hubby is still asleep and I’m being as quiet as possible so that he can stay that way for a while. The drive from Kentucky was very long and I think a day of leisure is called for.
Tomorrow it’s home to New York. I confess that I miss the cats and have begun seeing cats in shadows, so it’s time, I’m sure the cats will do their usual Who Are You act for a couple of days. But, that must be endured.
From Gail Collins:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/opinion/26collins.html?th&emc=th
the teenager has the new iphone and 4 of his friends. None of them have experienced the reception issue or the yellow spot. He said it’s only on some phones. He loves it. Just to put a little balance over here!
Trav, that pict works!
Crazy week last week. Speaking of Arkansas, I head there this week – have a hearing.
Those kids (of all ages) love their Apple toys.
Only some phones? Must have been from the suicide shift.
Hopefully they got iPhones made on Wednesday.
Sue, where were you on 40? Housemade biscuits trump the roll any day and hopefully with some good ham.
Well, that’s what he said. I’m one of the outdated people. :billcat:
Are electronics and machinery supposed to always work and never fail? :bee:
We were in the north east part of West Virginia but I’m not sure exactly where. We got off to get gas and found the cafe/antique shop across the way. The biscuit did trump a roll.
So far I haven’t found seltzer anywhere. Not even club soda. Everything bubbly has some sort of flavor. But, tomorrow we’ll be home and seltzer is on the list, after I check out the cats. The person who has been feeding them says one has been throwing up hairballs so I’m very anxious to make sure they are all OK.
Oops! Make that the North WEST part of WV.
I was trying to figure it out earlier since I grew up in WVa not far from Kentucky and it looked like you were farther up north. on 40. I was eating some baloney from Pennsytucky yesterday.
what do you do for hair balls? :barf:
I guess it’s a 20 hour run to Cape Fairweather. I’m only off by a factor of two. Now I know why I didn’t get that Boeing internship.
“What do you do for hairballs”?
I’m thinking Vaseline- Mrs Art sez mineral oil- in their food in any case :barf: