You can find more photos of our beautiful daughter at Flickr. Mia is more important than just about anything I've ever done, but I will attempt to get back to posting a little.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Oh, By The Way, New Baby!
Yeah, so my lack of posts recently was first a result of pregnancy (Pregnancy: not just for expectant mothers!) and now a result of our firstborn, Mia MacKenzie!
You can find more photos of our beautiful daughter at Flickr. Mia is more important than just about anything I've ever done, but I will attempt to get back to posting a little.
You can find more photos of our beautiful daughter at Flickr. Mia is more important than just about anything I've ever done, but I will attempt to get back to posting a little.
Monday, August 10, 2009
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Friday, October 24, 2008
A Tribute to the Best Phone I've Ever Owned
This post comes at a time when I just learned that I will be getting the T-Mobile/HTC/Google G1 Android phone (enough keywords?) after all. A nice call to T-Mobile and they upgraded my upgrade to the full upgrade. And even better yet, it will be delivered on my birthday!
So before this information becomes obsolete, I wanted to pay tribute to my lone (cellular) companion these past months, the Nokia 1208.
This is close to actual size... on my monitor anyway.
Just look at that phone for a minute. It's such a mid-90's style. And you don't even see the UI there, but believe me, this phone rivals the Jitterbug for size of on-screen font. I bought this phone when my Samsung t629 died and I refused to pay more than $30 for a phone (I got this for $29.99 plus tax, so it's a wash). I'm going to put this next line in its own paragraph to highlight its importance.
This is the best phone I have ever owned:
On the flip side, I have literally used the Nokia 1208 as a drumstick; At the latest Tufts football game, the Pep Band (which I direct) needed an additional percussionist for a particular song. We needed a cowbell player for Low Rider. So I grabbed the cowbell and asked Keith for a drumstick. He didn't have one; none of the drummers had extras. So I reached into my pockets, found my phone, tested it, and then wailed away. I probably played 15 different full-length songs with cowbell and phone. (Just to be clear, this was a musical-quality cowbell, not the crap you see people dingle at sporting events... no offense Rays fans, I love you guys!) And the phone works great!
So it's indestructible. That's awesome. The other awesome feature: a flashlight.
Yes, a flashlight.
Why every phone doesn't have one, I will never know. The Nokia 1208 has a $0.05 LED on the top of it that is bright enough to see keyholes, navigate over sleeping cats, and probably flag down help on the side of a night road. I mean, come on! How obvious is that?!
I highly recommend this phone to anyone who A) doesn't need Internet and B) wants a reliable, indestructible, and cheap phone. I'll sure be keeping mine as a backup.
UPDATE: T-Mobile has the phone on sale for $19.99 with a $25 refill card included. Hot!
So before this information becomes obsolete, I wanted to pay tribute to my lone (cellular) companion these past months, the Nokia 1208.
This is close to actual size... on my monitor anyway.Just look at that phone for a minute. It's such a mid-90's style. And you don't even see the UI there, but believe me, this phone rivals the Jitterbug for size of on-screen font. I bought this phone when my Samsung t629 died and I refused to pay more than $30 for a phone (I got this for $29.99 plus tax, so it's a wash). I'm going to put this next line in its own paragraph to highlight its importance.
This is the best phone I have ever owned:
- It's better than my first phone (Samsung SPH-A400) because it reliably sends and receives calls.
- It's better than my second phone (Sanyo SCP-700) because it's about half the size.
- It's better than my third phone (Sidekick II) because it's not the size of a brick. Also, it was roughly 10 times cheaper.
- It's better than my fourth phone (Samsung t629) because it doesn't break when I look at it wrong.
On the flip side, I have literally used the Nokia 1208 as a drumstick; At the latest Tufts football game, the Pep Band (which I direct) needed an additional percussionist for a particular song. We needed a cowbell player for Low Rider. So I grabbed the cowbell and asked Keith for a drumstick. He didn't have one; none of the drummers had extras. So I reached into my pockets, found my phone, tested it, and then wailed away. I probably played 15 different full-length songs with cowbell and phone. (Just to be clear, this was a musical-quality cowbell, not the crap you see people dingle at sporting events... no offense Rays fans, I love you guys!) And the phone works great!
So it's indestructible. That's awesome. The other awesome feature: a flashlight.
Yes, a flashlight.
Why every phone doesn't have one, I will never know. The Nokia 1208 has a $0.05 LED on the top of it that is bright enough to see keyholes, navigate over sleeping cats, and probably flag down help on the side of a night road. I mean, come on! How obvious is that?!
I highly recommend this phone to anyone who A) doesn't need Internet and B) wants a reliable, indestructible, and cheap phone. I'll sure be keeping mine as a backup.
UPDATE: T-Mobile has the phone on sale for $19.99 with a $25 refill card included. Hot!
Monday, October 20, 2008
RAYS WIN RAYS WIN RAYS WIN RAYS WIN RAYS WIN RAYS WIN RAYS WIN
So I'm more than a little excited. Watching David Price absolutely destroy the Red Sox restored my faith in baseball (even if I'm even more convinced that Price is an alien robot from the future):
And just for fun, some pics from the Rays-Sox brawl earlier this year:
And just for fun, some pics from the Rays-Sox brawl earlier this year:
Monday, July 21, 2008
A Eulogy For A Phone
All good things must come to an end. I've been using a Samsung T629 cell phone for about a year now, when all of a sudden this happened:
Through the looking glass.
A power cycle solved the problem for about an hour, then it reinverted. I just worked with the weird phone until I shut it off for the movie theater. Now it will not power up at all.
It is truly a sad day for all phone-kind.
What really sucks is that both Targets I've been to have been sold out of T-Mobile prepaid phones. What the crap man!
A power cycle solved the problem for about an hour, then it reinverted. I just worked with the weird phone until I shut it off for the movie theater. Now it will not power up at all.
It is truly a sad day for all phone-kind.
What really sucks is that both Targets I've been to have been sold out of T-Mobile prepaid phones. What the crap man!
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