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to iPhone or not to iPhone…

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

So I have been seriously debating on replacing my Treo with an iPhone. I feel silly for even writing this here. But I am hoping that my readers have some CONSTRUCTIVE input to my decision.

I like my treo. It is red. Sure, sometimes it drops calls, I can’t sync it to my work calendar, it seems slow, and it doesn’t have wifi. But it does have video capabilities, MMS messaging, and a bunch of apps that I already paid money for. How often do I use the video… never. How often do I send a MMS, that is a little more frequent, maybe once every two months. The apps I like. I play soduko and store my passwords in a password protected program. Those are probably the two programs that I use the most.

It seems to me, if my phone is more for play and less for work, then perhaps the iPhone is the way to go. But then again, my little red treo won’t have a home and I don’t know that I am ready to part with it.

I sure hope this doesn’t keep me up at night!

p.s. Why does Steve Jobs have to keep such a huge monopoly on things? It seems to me that he knows what customers want and he always hits under the bar. It is never the full shot. It seems to be a crappy strategy. It is what keeps me from becoming a complete and total convert.

He’ll probably need additional volcano insurance.

Friday, February 15th, 2008

There are a million things I could blog about today. But this is the second day I have looked at PP’s insurance information and the second day it has made me laugh out loud. When the phrase “accidental nuclear discharge” appears in an insurance claim, you know the shit has hit the fan!

My life in math

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

11/15 of my life was spent in Pennsylvania, which means that 4/15 of my life has been in CA.
5/6 of my life I have been a student.
1/6 of my life I have spent with Winemonkey.
2/3 of my life I played slow pitch softball.
2/15 of my life I have been blogging.
Less than 1% of my life, I have had a “real job”.

41% of Americans.

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

I think might be certifiable. Today on NPR I heard that 41% of Americans believe in creationism. Namely, that the world was created only 10,000 years ago. I am not sure where the poll was done and what kind of spread of people they surveyed… but that is a HIGH PERCENTAGE. Probably the same percentage of people who actually voted for Bush. Maybe they only surveyed in the bible belt.

I know the pitfalls of carbon dating… but DINOSAURS people! He didn’t just put these super old bones here when he was creating earth ten thousand years ago.