Houston, we have an iPhone
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Actually, two iPhones. I’m heading home to give Becky hers now. WHEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Category Archives: My Life
11 years ago today…
…I graduated from Newington High School. (Above: I blow a kiss to my classmates after walking across the stage.Below: I pose with my friend Marel after the ceremony.) Eleven years. Man. That’s kind of a long time, huh? Wow. (This also means tomorrow, June 23, is the 11th anniversary of the final print edition of The Living Room Times —… Read more »
The end of an era: retiring the belt pack?
Becky made an excellent point yesterday. When I get my new iPhone 4 next week*, it’ll be the first time I’ve ever owned a cell phone with a decent camera. (My 2006 vintage Sprint flip phone takes grainy 640x480s — a marked improvement over my previous, 2003 vintage Sprint flip phone, which took 384x256s.) And, by all accounts, the iPhone’s… Read more »
AT&T: “Slight chance” my iPhones will be delayed by a few days
Last night, I received a confirmation e-mail from AT&T — two of them, actually, one for my iPhone and one for Becky’s — titled “Your recent ATT order status.” They state: Dear Brendan Loy, Thank you for ordering iPhone 4 from AT&T. Your device has been reserved. Today was the busiest sales day in our history. Because of the incredible… Read more »
No iPhone for me until… July? [UPDATE: Know Hope!]
I may need to modify the countdown sidebar thingy at right. AT&T has confirmed that, thanks to “the busiest online sales day in AT&T history,” they’ve already sold out of pre-ordered iPhone 4s, and thus “people who got their orders in after 4:30 [PM Eastern Time] are expected to get their phones any time between June 25th and July 5th,”… Read more »
iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO vs. ???
So… Becky and I are almost certainly going to imminently upgrade, finally, to smartphones. Indeed, the tentative plan has been to pre-order two iPhone 4s on Tuesday, the first day it’s possible to do so. But we’re not under contract with anyone right now, so all options are available to us. And I’m concerned about the AT&T network issues that… Read more »
iPhone 4/HD unveiling open thread
[UPDATE: Event over; iPhone 4 is here. And it’s awesome. Of course, the best part of the demo was when Steve Jobs had network connectivity issues while trying to demonstrate the new, super high definition screen: Yeah… somebody‘s getting fired. Heh. To make matters worse (and more hilarious), at one point, Jobs asked for suggestions from one of his techies,… Read more »
A typical dinner-table conversation at the Loy household
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This is a near-verbatim transcript of a conversation between me and my 2-year-old daughter one day last week. Background: she is obsessed with asking, and being asked, the question “how was your day?” She sometimes asks it when it makes no sense, like at 7:30 AM, or when we’ve been together all day. And even when it’s a logical question,… Read more »
Memorial Day, explained to (and by) a two-year-old
Me: “I’m going to put up our American flag, because it’s Memorial Day weekend, and Memorial Day is a very patriotic holiday.” Loyette: “Are we going to the holiday?” Me: “It’s not a holiday you go to, sweetie, it’s a holiday you celebrate with your family and friends and your community, to honor the brave soldiers who fought for our… Read more »
An addendum to a very old blog post
One of my favorite blog posts ever, back on the old Irish Trojan’s Blog in August 2006, was on the topic of my favorite songs of all-time. The post got 48 comments, and ’twas fascinating to hear my readers’ takes on my favorites, as well as their own favorites. Anyway, the post itself had four postscripts, and it occurred to… Read more »