Depending on which phone and which plan the iPhone costs between $2000 and $3000 $6000 over two years.
I just switched providers and the three phones I got for the Wife, the Mother-in-Law, and myself and the service for those phones should run me on the low side of the iPhone range in the same time period.
Besides that, I really don’t need my phone to do much more than make calls, send texts, and take pictures. By those criteria, I am pretty happy with my Synch (and it’s even more phone than I need).
So, yeah. Up to now, I’ve been saying “I’ll wait until the third generation of the iPhone.” Unless my needs drastically change between now and then, however, I doubt I’d get one then either.
OK, so who the heck knows what’s going on in John from Cincinnati — forget it. Instead, I say you spend your time soaking in the comedic joy that is Flight of the Conchords, featuring that really annoying guy from the Outback Steakhouse commercials. (He’s actually funny outside of the Outback context.)
The NYTimes says it well:
“Flight of the Conchords� is cockeyed and a lot of fun. To say much more might ruin it.
Check the video samples, yo. The “Most Beautiful Girl” clip will give you a proper taste.
I get the feeling that this summer’s going to be a scorcher. That lovely Spring weather I was gushing about has faded into something more akin to a preheating blast furnace.
Saturday evening the Wife and I gathered with our mothers and various other posse members to take in a tooth-and-nail roller derby bout with our beloved Rocky Mountain Roller Girls handing a sound trashing to the visiting Angel City Derby Girls from LA. Apparently the ACDG are relatively new and they tried to compensate for the lack of experience by - as our Zoom Zoom Zetta put it to me - “playing sooo dirty”. As a spectator, I was thrilled. I was really worried Pinky 500 was going to throw down at some point, though (something I’ve only seen happen once so far). The night ended on a bit of a down note as Penny Payne needed to be helped off after a crash in the last jam.
Sunday kind of fell into the “too hot to move” category, so we took in Knocked Up. I’ll give it a B+. It’s not as funny as 40 Year Old Virgin, and a couple of the scenes were so obviously pieced together from hours of improv that they actually threw off the rhythm of the movie. All-in-all it’s a great chick flick that guys will enjoy.
And… Yeah… That’s about it.
Anyone else check out the newest offering from HBO & Milch? Thoughts?
I have a feeling it might be a slow starter, but I think I’m liking it. I’m always a sucker for a good junkie character, and Rebecca De Mornay is still kinda hot (even if she is playing a grandmother…).
The “Inside the Episode” series will be worth a look after each show, I think.
I’ve become a “scrobbling” addict lately. I’m especially concerned with my last.fm profile accurately demonstrating my overall musical tastes, so I’ll tailor my day-to-day listening to try and balance out any temporary flights of fancy I might have (Like the Monkees binge I’m on right now, thanks to Merlin.).
Nothing feeds into this obsession more than this Mainstream-o-meter, which compares your top 30 artists with everyone else. My results are skewed due to a couple audiobooks and a few artists that really shouldn’t be ranked as high on my list as they actually are currently.
Interesting observations that illustrate an obvious “last.fm users vs. the rest of the real world” bias:
- Elliot Smith and Sufjan Stevens are more “mainstream” than The Beach Boys.
- The Beatles and Radiohead are both above 100%, they are so mainstream.
- Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tori Amos all seem surprisingly low.
(via Brandon’s del.icio.us)
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