iPhun

If you dear readers can refrain from judging me, for a moment, I'll let you in on a little secret. I have switched two of my oldest loyalties in the last month. I have given up on LG and Verizon and bought an iPhone on the AT&T network. Hey. I said don't judge me.


The truth is, I still love LG and Verizon, but I was not able to receive signal at my new home on the Verizon network, so I was forced to change to AT&T, and since they offer a basic iPhone for $99, how could I say no?


Since then I have tried not to be an insufferable fan-boy of the iPhone, but it's so hard to do, given that there is just so much awesomeness packed into this little gizmo. I was trying to explain it to my mother and the only metaphor I could come up with is that it is like a Tricorder on Star Trek. Whenever you need some techy thing done to support the plot, you reach for the Tricorder. You want an example, you say? Here's one.


Last Friday I was driving in Boise, and it was raining heavily and my wiper blades had gone to the point where the one on the passenger side was useless. I needed replacements, and now! So I pulled off the road, whipped out the iPhone and accessed the 'AroundMe' app. I typed in "auto parts" and it informed me that I had just passed Bow Wow Auto Parts on Emerald, and that it was 196 yards away. And wouldn't you know it, Bow Wow specializes in European brands, so they had a factory replacement for my Jetta wiper blades.


I felt like Mr. Spock.






Last week I promised a regular blog feature that I am naming Bacon Tuesdays. This week I'm promising another regular feature that I guess I'll have to call IPhone Monday. Now all of you who have iPhones, go download AroundMe. The rest of you, spend a minute to contemplate how much more awesome your life would be with a Tricorder.

MMmmmm.... Bacon blog

About a year ago, the biggest meme on the internet was a little thing called the Bacon Explosion. It was basically a bacon and sausage log, rolled up and barbecued. I even know someone who made one and said it was awesome. I thought it was funny and really wished I had a decent barbecue setup to try one.

Since then, it seems like every single day I see some picture or blog post on the webz about another interesting bacon product. Srsly. Every day. Now this is mostly due to the fact that I am subscribed to 42 blogs and read an average of 247 posts a day. (I just checked. That's the actual mean.) Nevertheless, I've really been tempted to start a bacon blog of my own. I even went to the trouble of asking a couple of people if they wanted to do one with me, and I sent out a request on Facebook. No takers. So now I'm going with a new strategy. Since this misanthropic blog is a bit moribund, I'm going to put bacon content on here. Some of my favorite blogs have dedicated days, like Photo Friday or Star Wars Monday. So I'm gonna try Bacon Tuesday.

Here's today's start. I need some of this.

Bacon Flavored Popcorn.














And just because I'm a nice guy, I'm not going to make a big deal about this, cuz it's disgusting.


































Oh. And while I was looking for the picture above, I came across this awesome picture. I'm including it here as a free gift. Enjoy. And see you next Tuesday.