not cool
Posted in Observations — by Don on 06/30/07

AT&T stores being shady.

We’ve got three separate accounts of people reporting that AT&T is forcing them to buy accessories along with their iPhone at three different AT&T stores. This was definitely not the case at Apple stores, and for several AT&T stores to decide this on their own to cash in on the launch is pretty damn shady.



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1 down
Posted in Family,Observations — by Don on 06/30/07

report card
report card,
originally uploaded by dbwilldo.

1 year down, 3 to go.

He made a pretty good recovery if you ask me. Besides your rousing applauses, he also got a new 30gb iPod for his hard work.

You’ve not seen me smile so big at 4am in my entire life!

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iPhone predictions
Posted in Observations — by Don on 06/29/07

Only a few more hours until droves of slobbering Mac fans will be able to get their hands on what is, without a doubt, the most hyped anything ever created.

I thought I would go ahead and jump the gun and make some predictions. I’m sure none of them will be close, but it was fun for me to do.

  • Until a flaver of Linux is installed: 3 days
  • Until one is completely dismantled, dismantling process displayed online: 1 day. DONE! check it (thanks Chuck!)
  • Running Windows: 10 days
  • Hacked to work without an AT&T phone account: 7 days
  • Hacked to work without iTunes: 5 days
  • Complaints about scratching showing up on digg.com, front or back: no later than 9PM, PST, 06-29-07
  • Complaints about the keyboard showing up on digg.com: 6:05PM, 06-29-07
  • Complaints about battery life, non-removal or anything else battery related showing up on digg.com: 1 day
  • Complaints about non-functioning sensors or dark screens: 2 days – Reported on Aug 10 here, users with touch screen problems
  • Hacked to work with other GSM cell providers: 10 days

This, of course, does not count the true haters that are already criticizing the iPhone for not working on Verizon or Sprint, or having slower internet access speeds* over the ATT network or complaining that it is too expensive or that they can’t pass the credit check or whatever the haters complain about.

And, of course, I won’t be getting one. I’m going to hold out until the wide-screen iPod comes out that does everything this thing does, but without the phone functions. You couldn’t pay me to be an AT&T wireless customer again!

*Just read this over at Engadget about a boost in the EVDO speeds. Interesting.

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Ugly Americans
Posted in Observations — by Don on 06/28/07

Never has it been so evident that we are a crappy lot until I was traveling home from Europe this week.

Waiting for the flight at London’s Heathrow Airport I witnessed the following:

  • The guy that thinks he is too important to wait inline because he has a partner credit card. Better still, his seat was in Economy class. And, yes, he was an asshole to everyone that got in his way in the mad rush for him to start being uncomfortable.
  • The overweight bitchy women that complained about EVERYTHING. Complete with whiny voices.
  • Mr. Red-face-I’ll-have-a-heart-attack-in-5-minutes with glow-in-the-dark legs. Really man, exercise and buy some pants.
  • The unsupervised children running amok. At least they were harnessed in or something on the plane.
  • Me. sitting back and watching it all
    • This is all stuff that we see everyday and pretty much ignore. It became glaringly obvious how truly obnoxious we are when removed from our normal surroundings where everyone is like us. But I’m home now. A day late and 2 weeks behind, even though I logged another 12 hours or so for the car wash during my trip. You might have caught my pissy post last week, but I really had a good time. Got to meet some very interesting people, see cool stuff, drive a new MINI on an F1 circuit and ride shotgun in an R56 diesel. Plus, proper english breakfast and Heinekein in Holland (tastes like crap there too if you were wondering). Watch the other sites for more audio, a complete wrap-up of the event and whatever else I missed. Oh yea, feel free to check the flickr again if you missed any of the 400+ photos I posted last week.
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A quick one
Posted in Family,Rants,Things I hate — by Don on 06/28/07

Just I complained about this, and today I just fired one of my better customers because of it.

That makes 2 customers that I have ‘fired’ in the last month. I’m not kidding around anymore people. If you want to be rude, question my abilities or skills or work for free*, then find someone else to do the work.

I’m done.

*free meaning gratis. No cash. No trade value. Nothing. There are those of you that are reading now that I have done ‘free’ work for. You don’t count as I have taken my payment in trade for other things.

As usual, this message does not apply to anyone that is a regular reader of w(t)f.

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