(m)iPhone

The kids don’t have to be ashamed of this uncle anymore

Six weeks and four days ago we were at my nephews graduation. We were in a huge outdoor amphitheater with a thousand others waiting for my red robed smarty-pants nephew to make his entrance. I suggested to my niece, Ali-Baba, that we text her brother to find out which aisle he was going to use to enter. When I took out my cell phone, she laughed at me.

“OhMyGawd,” she giggled, “My mom had that phone like, THREE phones ago!!!”, amazed at how far behind the pack a person could lag.

I was a little hurt, “What? It does texting!” I offered. But by the time I finally was able to call up the text screen on my piece of Smithsonian Institute technology, and Ali saw the screen, she only laughed harder. By that time she had clicked open her own cell phone, slid open a tiny QWERTY keyboard and was using two thumbs to type cryptograms to her brother.

She laughed in the face of her beloved uncle, her designated spiritual advisor, the one who let her drive his car to confirmation rehearsal, the uncle who is willing to stand between her and an oncoming water balloon . . . me!

“It’s okay, honey.” comforted Brian, “You can have my iPhone after I get the new 3G.”

So my dear Alison, it has come to pass. Today I will be carrying a piece of 2007 electronics.

True, it’s secondhand, outdated, and the GPS isn’t state of the art. But at least you, (and probably others), won’t be AS ashamed of me as you were.

And next time you see me I can show you all 5,000 of my photos that I now carry around in my pocket, have you read this blog, and then make you listen to MY MP3s in the car. 

Want to hear some polka music?

- - - David

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Hear, speak, see no evil at Toshogu, Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan,
from Wikimedia Commons

This is to inform you that it is another worm in the APPLE, not your moderator, that has disabled the comments on our iWeb blog.

Some say it’s that new iPhone 3G. Others opine that it’s the millions of existing iPhone geeks trying to rev up their toys all at the same time and the same day, unable to wait for the inevitable bugs to surface, (Brian?), that caused the system crash. Or could it be the launch of the new application that Apple tried to introduce at the very same moment they started selling the new iPhone AND offering the endless upgrades?

If you’ve actually tried to post a comment, I know someone just must have, you probably received a strange advert for MobileMe, Apple’s new application that will allow us Mac users to do some fabulous new tricks, I’m sure, once they find out where it went and figure out how to make it work.

I have a feeling MobileMe is a little shy and it’s hiding out on my website. In any case I think I’ll be waiting awhile before I try and update anything on my computer this time. I still remember not being able to blog for six weeks last time they “improved” my system.

Since last time I checked, Apple still wasn’t commenting, I will sit back, study and let the moment wash over me. What can I learn from this latest Monkey Wrench? Is the cosmos trying to teach me a lesson? Is it wise to try and do everything at once? What exactly does the expression “Pace yourself” refer to? Are the best laid plans not always the best laid plans? Should we even bother to make a plan. Or does this remind me of what I learned while trying to put together an IKEA kitchen, to make sure step one is done before moving on to step two, AND three.

It is the sure footed tortoise that won the race, not the fleet footed hare. And I am a firm follower of our Lady of de Lay.


In the meanwhile, this blogger site, where I copy and paste all our blog entries for those computers that prefer not to crash and burn when Apple has these little glitches, is still allowing comments, for now.

So hear, speak and say all the evil you want, here.

I’ll be waiting.

- - - David