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 »
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 »
If Kyle Whelliston is right about the “Sports Bubble” — basically, the idea that sports (and “sportz“) are massively overvalued right now, and it’s all gonna break, and soon — I wonder if we’ll look back on yesterday’s events as the crest of the bubble’s rise, to be followed by a gradual, and then accelerating, decline as the bubble bursts…. Read more »
Commissioner Dan Beebe to Big 12 athletic directors: “Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Texas, of Oklahoma, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the Big Twelve fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not… Read more »
I wasn’t looking for them, but I just happened to catch a glimpse of Venus and the crescent Moon from our newly built patio this evening. Beautiful. A closer view: Clearly, even the Heavens are celebrating Becky’s birthday. 🙂
It got rather badly buried Thursday, amid all the conference expansion and USC sanction tweets, but I still think this clip is really freakin’ funny: Teehee. Inflatable hover-fort.
Could USC football be coming soon to a stadium near me — i.e., the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field, just up the road in Boulder — not once every eight years, as under the anticipated Pac-16, but rather once every 2 to 5 years? It’s looking more and more that way: In a bombshell development that could bring a halt… Read more »
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 »
Meanwhile, across the pond: If you didn’t know… clod (n.): A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
For those of us who find soccer* mind numbingly dull I offer you this football related post to entertain you. Something I haven’t seen really addressed anywhere within all this talk of the coming conference mega storm is the shake up it will cause with the various bowl arrangements. Now I realize there are a fair number of people who… Read more »