From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #252 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, July 1 2007 Volume 16 : Number 252 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Pretty neat [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Pretty neat [Tom Clark ] Re: Lou Whitaker was Re: I AM A GODDAMN SCHMUCK ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Lou Whitaker was Re: I AM A GODDAMN SCHMUCK [2fs ] Re: neighbors (or Sloan feels your pain) [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:16:15 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Pretty neat On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:20 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > My wife's iPhone, that is. I just helped out by sitting in line > for 3 hours. The multi-touch is way cool, I want it for my 100+ > gigabyte iPod. Congrats! Here's my iPhone adventure (moral of the story - Never Give Up!) So, I take half a day off and go wait in line 3 blocks away from work at an AT&T store. In line at 1pm. Initial count i'm number 27 in line. Should be fine. An hour later I decide to be proactive and do a more thorough count, handing out numbers jotted down on slips of paper. Everyone is pleased that someone is taking initiative to prevent line jumpers. Turns out i'm really number 39. Ok, still should be good. 6 hours later i'm FINALLY into the damn store only to learn that the 3 guys in front of me just purchased the last of the 8GB models!! They only had 40 in stock (and probably 40 or less of the 4GB as I've learned the ratio was something like 4 or 3:1 8GB to 4GB. For a brief moment I ponder "settling" for the lower capacity model, then a fellow line waiter tells me to take a deep breath and consider ordering the 8GB, as i'll most likely regret it in the morning. He's right, so I place the order, scheduled to ship on Monday and possibly arrive on Tuesday (of course, they can guarantee nothing...) I then proceed home extremely bummed about blowing 6 hours. Moping around reading all the blog coverage. Watching the late night news coverage. Something tells me to simply call the 5th Ave flagship store (open 24/7/365) at 11:30pm and talk to a very nice woman who informs me that the lines have died down and they do, in fact, have plenty of 8GB models still available. I get my second wind, hop in a cab and 20 minutes later i'm back in the city at the giant glass cube. No lines, but tons of people still milling around downstairs at midnight. I walk up to the counter - "One 8GB iPhone please. :)" "Sure, no problem!" I'm in and out in 5 minutes! I knew all along that I should have trusted my instincts and been with the Apple faithful instead of the lame AT&T drones. I tell my tale to a few of the Apple employees and they laughed when I said there were only 40 larger capacity models in stock at the AT&T location. (which seemed to be the case at many other spots) "We've got plenty to go around here." Safely back home and just starting to open the box now. My weekend is NOT ruined after all. First thing tomorrow morning I cancel my AT&T order (they won't charge the card until the unit was actually shipping anyhow) Ok, time for activation... - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:26:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Pretty neat On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> There was a report on the evening news about Woz being first in >> line at the local mall store. Apparently he was allowed to camp >> out inside the mall and spent the night riding Segways around the >> place with his buddies. > > And he got a t-shirt. > > Funny that people are wailing "It's pathetic he had to wait on line like everyone else!" Fact is, Woz is still an employee (he's the only direct report Jobs has), and gets one of each new product. OK, time to slug an espresso before making a midnight run to SFO to pick up the wife and kid. My week-long bachelorhood is over!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:56:04 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Lou Whitaker was Re: I AM A GODDAMN SCHMUCK Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > mojority Best accidental coining ever. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:45:29 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: neighbors > From: Tom Clark > Subject: Re: neighbors > > Speaking of power tools, a few years ago Jeme spoke of the idea of a > neighborhood sharing resources like lawn mowers, power washers, etc. Well, an iPhone's a resource, right? And this list is a neighborhood, right? Just thinking out loud... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:22:15 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Lou Whitaker was Re: I AM A GODDAMN SCHMUCK On 6/30/07, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > mojority > > Best accidental coining ever. Up there with one I read in a student paper years ago, around the time the Michigan Militia was spreading its ugliness in the news: they referred to "the Michigan Malicia." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:31:31 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #247 >I've never noticed that, and I'm a fairly regular reader. Mought have only applied to the earlier days of the strip when Rob had more of a life as opposed to interacting with the quadruped cast more or less full-time. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:41:41 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: neighbors (or Sloan feels your pain) First thing that came up on the iPod at work today - Sloan's Living with the Masses from Never Hear the End of It - a lament about noisy neighbors, all in 1:36: I never asked like a neighbor like you to run around and around like a wrecking ball Is there some renovating you should do? Maybe you should cut in the dark with your table saw - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influence by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:07:25 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: Played by hookers and rucking flankers with one oddly shaped ball one time at band camp, grutness@slingshot.co.nz said: >> POST OF THE MONTH! >> > thank you :) could've done with some spell checking, though. Forards? > Unoform? what?!? those typos weren't done purposefully in honor of the all blacks' name's origin?!? but that's what made the post brilliant!!! woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:49:46 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: And I mean EVAR Note to Tom Clark: I am so impressed by your cousinhood to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is my heroine. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #252 ********************************