• Victoria, BC: Yep, I still want to be a Canadian!

    We spent a few days this past wek in Victoria, BC. Wow, what a great place! The weather was fabulous – although the weather predictions called for rain every day we were going to be there, we had one evening of rain and two and a half lovely days of cool temps and fluffy-white-cloud blue

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  • Phun with iPhones

    Chuck and I have discovered a new thing to do with (small amounts) of our money. Buy third party apps for the iPhone! Having exhausted all of the free offerings we have moved on to low-cost silly stuff. Two current faves: Koi Pond – very soothing and utterly pointless. Morse Code – it flashed and

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  • Half an hour

    What is the time it took to sell my first generation on Craigslist (for $300). Which pays for the second coming. Nice!

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  • Same as it ever was

    The second coming (aka the iPhone 3G) arrived today (via direct order from at&t – three days from order to pick up!) and it is as we speak in my hands. I am touching it as we speak. And it is THAT COOL. Say what people will, the iPhone still rocks the free world. And

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  • I can see the promised land but…

    Well, another day, smother to at getting an Apple iPhone. This time I tried the Apple Store in Pasadena. They had iPhones – the only ones they had were the 16GB models I have my eye on. So far so good. To get on line I had to prequalify – they look me up online

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  • Those darned Sumerians!

    Courtesy of Yahoo News, the world’s oldest joke (1900 B.C.):  “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Hahahahahaha!!!

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