> After five days as an iPhone 4 owner, here — as promised — are a few of my miscellaneous thoughts about the device: • It’s awesome. I mean, this has to be bullet point number one, right? Having never owned any smartphone before, it’s like I’ve stumbled directly into nerd nirvana with this thing. It’s mind-blowingly incredible… Read more »
Once upon a time — the summer of 1991, when I was nine years old, to be exact — I was in Chicago, leaving the Field Museum of Natural History in the midst of a massive thunderstorm, when lightning struck the Sears Tower… but my view was completely blocked because I happened to be standing directly behind one of the… Read more »
Forgive me for being crassly political in the immediate aftermath of the sad news of Robert Byrd’s death — but there is, of course, a significant electoral and political angle to this. At least two such angles, actually. The U.S. Senate now has 99 senators — 56 Democrats, 2 Dem-caucusing independents, and 41 Republicans — and the question of who… Read more »
[NOTE: I bumped this up from 9:06 AM, since it’s both higher video quality and a more pleasing top-of-the-homepage image than the clip of my ugly mug. 🙂 -ed.]
(Video taken this morning with the iPhone’s front-facing camera.)
Watercolor and finger-paint on ink-jet paper, 2010. 🙂
I still owe y’all some more detailed observations/thoughts on my new iPhone, which I’ll try to post at some point soon. In the mean time, here are some more of my photos of iPhone 4 launch day yesterday. They include, of course, shots from my early-morning pilgrimage to the AT&T Store, but also from my two subsequent visits to the… Read more »
The World Cup knockout round bracket is set, and Five Thirty Eight has updated its odds — based on the ESPN Soccer Power Index — for who is most likely to advance through each round. The most evenly-matched first-round game? Tomorrow’s clash between the United States (49% chance of winning) and Ghana (51%), for reasons explained here. As for odds… Read more »
That’s Becky’s quote. Nothing here (downtown), but some pretty bizarre cloud/rain patterns, quite obviously blowing all around, in the general direction of where we live.
As anticipated, the belt pack camera is gone. Well… okay, it’s not quite “gone”; it’s in my briefcase. But the point is, it’s not on my belt! The iPhone camera is officially my new point-and-shoot of first resort. And those horrible grainy Sprint cell-phone photo moblog posts (e.g.) are a thing of the past. I realize this is old hat… Read more »