As those of you close to me know, I kind of fell into a new iPhone (you know, the one with 3G that everyone has been talking about). If you don’t know the story of why I purchased the new iPhone, I apologize, but you are out of the loop and you may never know. Anyways, one of my favorite things about the previous iPhone I had was the dock that came along with it. It’s not a necessity, but it keeps my desk clean and organized looking (I can dock my phone and see it from my seat when people call and it has a holder to keep it out of my way). Unfortunately, the new iPhone did not come with a new dock. Much to my dismay, I would have to buy a new one to fit my 3G iPhone… or would I? Not wanting to drop the $30 the new dock would run me, I took my old dock and borrowed my friend Keith’s Rotozip and performed a little modification on my old dock. After about thirty minutes of sanding the dock down, I was able to fit my 3G iPhone into my old dock and saved myself about $30. True, it’s not as polished and nice looking as a new dock would be, but I didn’t spend $30. Anyways I just thought I would share some pictures of it with you. I apologize for the bad photo quality as I was using my grandmother’s cheap point and shoot and I have terrible lighting in my room (which prompted me to use the flash and flash-bang everything).

I have seen this commercial a couple of times now and every time I see it, it leaves me speechless. I’ve always seen this craptastic commercials that always promise to “speed up” your computer for a nominal fee. Yeah, I hate to do it, but bullshit. It just doesn’t work like that. To show you an example of how shoddy their advertising is, let us examine that advertisement in question:

First of all, you’ll notice that the first guy is using an iMac. Ok, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and we’ll assume that it’s an Intel based iMac. He is running Windows on it and he notices that it’s just kind of slow (yes, try to get past the oscar-worthy acting to look at the computer problems). So I’ll give them that one. But then after that you see a woman using a Mac laptop. Can you guess what laptop it is? Incase you don’t know, it’s an iBook. But I know you are about to say, “Yeah but Mac’s can run Windows now through Bootcamp!” Well, that is true for the new Intel Mac’s, but the iBook is pre-Intel. That is a PowerPC chip running Windows natively. You are witnessing history here folks. After all, Microsoft couldn’t even do that, but apparently the people over at finallyfast.com can. What a crock of shit. From this point on it’s just lies wrapped in crap and they are doing it in such a way to make you out to be an idiot. They are probably making a killing off of this product though. I happen to know quite a few people who have probably already given them money when their computer just didn’t seem quite as fast anymore. Instead of wasting money on this, spend some time in backing up your data, reformatting, and reinstalling. You’ll be much happier and see way better results.

Today I utterly embarrassed myself (which happens quite frequently, believe it or not). At the aforementioned funeral, I was talking to someone and called them by the wrong name. I called them ‘Kevin’ instead of their actual name, ‘Keith’. At least I had the ‘Ke’ part correct. Unfortunately he did not correct me, so either A) he didn’t hear me (which is the choice I’m hoping for), B) he heard me but did not want to say anything to be nice, or C) he thinks I’m a jackass and just let it go because of the location and circumstances.

I frequently forget things. As a matter of fact, I probably have one of the worst memories ever. I forget names, faces, subjects for exams, and I even forget things that have happened in my lifetime. I hate forgetting names. It’s a curse. I can remember the most useless trivia knowledge that would make me a dynamite teammate on Trivial Pursuit, but if I am running into you with only having met you a few times there is a very good chance I will not know your name or even who you really are. It’s sad I know. I just don’t want it to feel like you aren’t important enough for me to remember. It’s not that. I just have a hard time remembering names of acquaintances.

Now I just need to come up with some method to help myself learn people’s names and who they are. Flash cards anyone?

I always find it a little intimidating when asked to participate in a funeral. Thus far in my storied life, I’ve only been apart of a funeral as a pallbearer. I served in this position for my brother’s father, for my grandfather, an extended relative, and today I reprise the role for another extended relative.

I’ve never really had a problem with helping out, but as of late, I’ve found it a little morbid in being one of the gentlemen that carries a loved one to the grave. Many found it odd that my brother and I would carry his father or our grandfather, but we couldn’t really see it any other way. It’s just something humbling about it and we felt like we should be the ones carrying our loved ones if possible.

Well, I feel that I have stalled enough. Time to head to the funeral home. I would like to take the time to remind all of you to spend time with your loved ones, in light of the inevitable outcome. Sorry to be such a downer.

Earlier this week, I was enjoying a podcast called No Agenda (hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak). The show is, as the name suggests, a show that has no agenda and generally no plan of discussion. The hosts basically talk about whatever comes to mind or whatever they have noticed going on in today’s world.

During this past week’s show, they talked about the demise of The Sharper Image. If you are unaware of what The Sharper Image is, you were truly missing out. The Sharper Image was an overpriced gadget shop. Essentially, it was one of those stores that all men went into, but never really understood why they were attracted to the store. It promised future technology at ridiculous prices. They always just seemed to have cutting edge gadgets that were always out of your financial reach. Truthfully, I do not know one person that has ever purchased anything from The Sharper Image. It’s really no surprise that it’s gone out of business; it’s hard to stay in business when your main business is to sell gadgets and you are not selling them.

Although I’m quite hard on The Sharper Image, I will miss them in my local mall in Louisville. I will miss walking into the store, walking aimlessly around, not buying anything, then leaving. Good times.