Unboxing, Bulimic Food Tasters, and Eyes.
1. I plan on getting the Blackberry Storm tomorrow despite the ridicule I will face from the iPhone gang (Lynchseattle, Bev, Avitania). I fully admit to being just nerdy enough to have been reading the forums at crackberry.com. It’s a problem.
One of the strange things cell phone technology addicts do when a phone comes out is to video themselves actually opening the box. Yes, that sounds odd. It’s like the nerd equivalent of filming the birth of a child that you’ll be fascinated with for about 6 months before you look forward to the next one so you can ditch the one you currently have.
Vodaphone released the phone a week ago and this guy from the UK filmed his “unboxing”. The great part is that he did it in front of his wife, who refused to help as he tried to unbox the thing one handed, holding the camera in the other hand. As he struggles, he says, “Come on, open, you bastard!” She yells, “Start again!” to which he barks, “SHUT IT!”
People crack me up.
2. Sitcom and I attended Food and Wine Magazine’s annual Entertaining Showcase at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. These events have a tendency to be over-impressed with themselves and stuffy. This one, though, was really quite nice and put Chicago Gourmet to shame. I dared Sitcom to throw up in the middle of the black high heals and wine glasses. (No, I don’t know why – I just have a weird sense of humor sometimes.) She then got on a tangent about bulimic food tasters that had me practically crying from laughing.
3. Walking to work yesterday, I disturbed myself by thinking about how well my eyes work together. This came about when I imagined each of them as a camera lens taking pictures from two slightly different positions/angles and how well that picture merged into one. It’s a little jacked up.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I’m not even in the elite iPhone gang because I still have last year’s model
I think all of us had a crackberry at one time or another. Yet again, I’m not elite enough in that aspect because I had a hand-me-down Blackberry 
I’m not much of a gadget person but I sure do want a Kindle (hint for Lynchseattle who I know will be reading this 
I’m so jealous of all of these events you get to go to. Well, at least I got to go to one with you – even though it turned out to be lame-o. Maybe we should just move to Chicago!
Eyes FREAK me out. Seriously. I get nauseous when I think of them or if there is an eyeball on a tv or movie screen. The thought of eyedrops just about puts me over the edge. Cole used to pull up his eyelids and chase me around the house just to get a reaction.
*shudder*
November 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I’m a new convert to the crackberry cult. I just got my first one a couple weeks ago and I’m in lurv. LOL, I’m sort of tech-no-tarded and the iphone is just too much for me.
Hell I just sent my very first text message the other day! I’m a late bloomer…
November 20th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Aaahh…fellow Verizon customer. And I know this because…I walked into my Verizon store recently inquiring about the Blackberry “Bold” and I was nearly crucified! Ha! I actually prefer the design of the Bold over the Storm as I’m not a fan of the entire phone being touch screen (which is why I do NOT like the iPhone.)
So…it looks like I’m getting the “old school” Curve or jumping ship to AT&T! (former than latter more than likely…)
November 20th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
1. Noooooo! Don’t do it! Heh. I had multiple Blackberries over the years. The problem is the software and the browser on the thing. Just not so good. Even the Storm’s browser is not so hot. You are such the target buyer of the iPhone! *sad*
2. Mmmm…. foooooood. I likes it.
3. It is amazing really. When you think of all that work that goes into a camera to produce a single, monoscopic image, it really does put things into perspective about how amazing our eyes are. Now if I could just swap out the lenses for a really good wideangle and telephoto
November 21st, 2008 at 9:18 am
Warning to Bev: You might not want to read this.
There was a CSI episode where they had this eyeball in a jar…it had all these veiny-artery things coming out the back of it. I’ve never actually seen an eyeball out of a head before, so I guess I’ll take their word for it. Anyway, they needed DNA from it, so they stuck a needle into it and extracted some eyeball juice. It was DISGUSTING.