Earhook

Buy.com offers the Philips Nike Sport Skylon Earhook Headphones, model no. SHJ080, for $19.99 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price by $43. Features include a frequency response of 8Hz to
24,000Hz and more.

Being Productive.

I wish her well (But I'm still getting her back).

TechCrunch's First Rule For Navigation of the App Store

Do Not Rely On The Top Twenty-Five

Relying on Apple's "Top 25" paid and free applications is like listening only to songs on the Billboard Top 10. Ugh. The top 25 list is populated merely by daily unit sales. You are not by any means guaranteed the best quality app, only the best marketed app. As we know, Best is very, very different from Best Marketed (think "Love Guru" with Mike Meyers.) For example, currently, "What's Your Sex Appeal" is the #1 free application according to Apple's Top 25. This is obviously not because it's such a useful, dazzling, or otherwise wonderful app.

Another Pic

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By now (the pic's dated, though only by less than hour), the line at the Keystone Mall (North Indianapolis) has decreased by only about 30 people, tops, in the last hour. This is worse than waiting to ride the Beast at Kings' Island in Ohio. And did I mention it's a TWO-sided line. It is. But your intrepid reporter has two txts ("text messages" via SMS, in case you're not of the cognoscenti) from his ex-wife, and thus must flee this commercial idolatry.

But, dammit, I want one.

Till the next,
Mr. Donahue

The Bags Are Hard To See

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The lucky early iPhone 4 archeologists seem to want to protect their expensive little contents at all costs. So don't count on any good shots of the bag.

This young lady had the naked box!! But, alas, her back was turned toward me. Sometimes, it is better when a girl leaves a little up to a guy's imagination. It's a common experience among even hipster hepcat übergeeks, regardless of the entry of "geek chic" into the Lexicon.

A Person With A White Bag

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Every so often, a person with a white bag emerges from Keystone Mall, and the policeman at the door lets another Apple-hungry male or female (predominately male, but the Apple girls are indeed "representing") in the door. Hardly enough to move the gangly and long, but upscale and patient line that has by now, 7:44 a.m., settled down to about enough to wrap around a cinema at midnight, those THESE fanboys & fangirls aren't re-enacting or kinetically imagining scenes, nor are they costumed--thank God for small blessings: who wants to see your average Apple fanboy attempt to dress as an iPhone 4? Would he attempt to speak like one? Enact some display of OS 4 multitasking ability? Alright, I admit, it might be worth a laugh, in the same way as the film "Trekkers".

But no, these are the normals. Like me, except probably not unemployed, or they wouldn't have been able to afford the right to stand and slowly shuffle with this long line--their shiny flat handful of gold (in black, as I understand it--so black gold--as the white phones never seemed to be available on pre-order).

In case you've misread my tone as anti-Apple, may I inform you that I'm writing this on a black iPhone 3g purchased nearly 2 years ago in a Lafayette, Indiana AT&T store, when the recession's teeth hadn't yet found me. Well, still, there's a certain sense of vicarious pleasure I can get from seeing these folk get their little magic rectangles that'll work so much faster than mine. My old 3g WAS good enough, mind you, to handle this whole blog event. I only had to download one App to get the functionality I wanted.

Thank God for missed interviews. If I was speaking with UPS right now about a part time, no benefits package handler position, I never would've driven by the Apple Store & checked the day (24th!) & given in to the temptation to look. And as my pics show, there was the iPhone 4 line, Indiana style--a little suburban looking. I think I may have found my calling as a reporter! It's much more exciting than writing legal briefs. And the iPhone 4--even the shiny white bags carried out one by ... one--is a lot more of a conversation starter than a legal argument & it's accompanying footnotes.

All for now,
Your intrepid reporter,
Mr. Donahue