The iPhone is turning me into an evil consumer

Posted by Blokeman on July 17, 2008 under General Bloke Stuff | Be the First to Comment

When the iPhone was first announced to be in production a few years back, being an avid iPod user, I quickly saw it’s potential and how well it would fit into my lifestyle and daily commute to work. However my lifestyle started to change and now does not involve a commute further than walking from my backdoor to my home office out the back. So my interest in the iPhone waned, even after playing with it around release time last year, during a trip to the US.

However as the hype started to build I started to become interested in the phone again, then whilst at a conference for work, Apple came out and demonstrated the iPhone against our software and others. I was sole and wanted one.

So after umming and ahhing, come release day I headed down to my local Optus store and was about 8th in the queue. I got into the shop, put through my order as they had run out of 16Gb black iPhones left so then the wait begins.

Normally I am fairly patient, patient as a saint you might say, when it comes to just about anything. However for some reason I am caught up in the unhinged desire to have the iPhone in my hands now. It hasn’t even been a week and I find myself waiting anxiously by the phone to get “The Call” from Optus telling me my phone as arrived. Now I am sitting on Mac forums watching other people telling me they have received their iPhones whilst I sit here constantly wondering why my phone isn’t sitting in my hands.

Why haven’t I got it?. I wants it, I wants my iPhone

uh-oh, not another faux pas

Posted by Blokeman on July 9, 2008 under General Bloke Stuff | Read the First Comment

Sometimes, I wonder why I or others allow me to open my mouth. Sure I consider myself to be of reasonable intelligence, however when it comes to witty rhetoric, I tend to lack the ability to control myself from blurting them out.

Saturday night was no exception to this well established rule.

We had people around for a BBQ, one of my dogs for some reason likes to torment my partners Mother. He essentially likes to sit either where she has just been sitting or, where she is going to sit. As soon as she stands up he is there.
One of our guests noticed this and mentioned that he seems to sit where ever she does.

Soooooo me being me comes out with what I think was a sterling comment

Guest: “Jeez, he seems to sit everywhere you have just sat”
Blokeman: “Yeah I have noticed that” turns to mother in law and says “Do you fart Scooby snacks or something”

whilst many a guest laughed, my partner was none too impressed, neither was Mother in law, in particular because she had come to the BBQ with her new boyfriend of only 3 or 4 weeks.

Oh well….come on dogs, it’s to the dog house with us!

Finally, I

Posted by Blokeman on July 7, 2008 under General Bloke Stuff | Be the First to Comment

Today I handed in my NSW license and got my new QLD license. I went from the deluxe full card to a laminated paper license, old Skool!

It’s been one hour of officially being a Queenslander and already my vocabulary has begun to shrink!