So today we did exactly twice the number of prescriptions they did last year. With the same number of people… cuz the boss doesn’t know how to write a schedule, I guess. And to top it off he put in a great bid gigantic order (that didn’t get put away)… give me a break.
The post about the Saturday from Hell comes next…
Why I don’t like the iPhone and HATE the iPod touch(this entry is rated R for strong language and drug use)
Honestly, I was sold on Apple when I bought my first iPod almost 5 years ago. I have encouraged everyone I know to move towards Apple products, especially the iPod because I simply love it. But since the debut of the iPhone and the subsequent release of the iPod touch I have been terribly disappointed in Apple’s most recent choices. Whilst the design and aesthetics of the iPhone/iPod touch are remarkable(they truly are beautiful products) there are several technical things that instantly turned me right off the iPhone and its non-phone brother. I had a chance this summer to play around with an iPhone for several hours, and this is what I’ve found out both from that experience and from those of my friends.
First, the iPhone: it has no Instant Messaging and a 2 megapixel camera a but no MMS. Also, Safari doesn’t even let you upload the pictures on the phone to the web. You can send them in an email all you want, but if you just took a picture and you want to go into Safari and add it to your facebook page or whatever, you’re SOL. I can’t send picture messages from my 2005 razr to my friends who have brand new iPhones using MMS. I have to email it to them so they can go into Mail and look at it. While this is all well and good, to me it betrays the point of a cameraphone. Also, if you’re not on an 802.11 wireless network the Internet is just god damned slow. Slow enough to the point that you want to give up on it entirely and just go home to your computer. Just try using that shitty OSD keyboard to punch in web addresses, Google searches, or even a blog entry. For fuck sake, Opera Mini running on my razrv3 is faster than iPhone’s Safari and has easier to use input methods.
Another beef I have is the fact that you have to plug it in to sync. Having to plug it in to charge is one thing, but it has Bluetooth… so give me a break. I can sync my razr with Bluetooth all I want. So shouldn’t I be able to with an iPhone?
And just so we have this clear, it’s an iPod and a phone… that means it plays music and does phone calls, right? So why can’t I set it to use any song I have on it as a ring tone? Why do I have to pay $0.99 for a song from the iTunes store and then turn around and pay another $0.99 to use it as a ringtone? Fuck you!
Going back to the keyboard, it’s just impossible to text quickly with one hand on the iPhone. Oh and p.s.—could at&t be bothered to offer lost/stolen insurance on it?
Those are what I see as some major flaws with the iPhone and why I didn’t run out and get one right away.
A short rundown of why the iPod touch sucks: First off the price is ridiculous. The 16GB model is $399. An iPod classic with TEN TIMES the storage is fifty dollars less! What a stupid fucking waste of money.
And yes, I understand that the touch uses more expensive flash memory than the 2.5″ SATA laptop hard drive the iPod classic uses, but again… for fuck sake! I just can’t overemphasize the price disparity here, coupled with an abysmal misstep in terms of features:
WiFi store? Pretty cool. Safari? Awesome. YouTube? Well alright, whatever–if you really want it. No Mail? Lame. No iChat? stupid. On screen keyboard? You know my feelings already. No scroll wheel? Fuck you.
That’s right. I said Fuck You to Apple, which was once one of my favorite companies. Now I think they have made giant missteps and blunders with these two devices. I openly tell people who ask me about either one not to buy them due to most of the reasons outlined above.. In my view they are simply bad products—even worse: they’re two of the worst things Apple as ever come up with.
Moreover, the reason why I feel so strongly about this has to do with one simple thing: the scroll wheel. In my opinion the scroll wheel is hands down the single greatest UI innovation since the invention of the mouse. It’s a simple and elegant solution to the problems presented by the iPod. It’s just a great idea. This is the number one thing I want to see resolved before I even contemplate purchasing an iPhone or iPod touch. An on-screen scroll wheel I can “slide” up with my finger when I wish to use it seems to me the best idea. Just let me have the option so I can wheel through my music/movies/contacts/web pages/etc with a single thumb like before. What a terrible mistake. I seriously hope it turns out to be a single-gen fuck up like the 3G iPod’s 4 buttons which were swiftly and smartly replaced by the very awesome click wheel. Good luck, Apple…
I almost forgot the best christmas song ever
Cuz my whole left arm hurts, watch Depeche Mode’s A Pain That I’m Used To
Continue reading ‘pain’
i mean jesus h fucking christ on a cracker is he ever ugly
Once upon a time I got broken up with for this guy.
it’s almost just like this!
I have a cyst on my left hand, on top of the scaphoid bone. It hurts like a motherfucker.
Last week I noticed what I thought was tendonitis in my thumb, just from resting my hand on the tip of my thumb while using the keyboard at work, but now this has popped out. I don’t know if that habit has caused it or what. Going to have it looked at during my regular appointment on the second. It hurts like a motherfucker.
Wikipedia says:
One traditional method of treating a ganglion tumor was to strike the lump with a large, heavy book, causing the cyst to rupture and drain into the surrounding tissues. Since even the poorest households often possessed a bible, this was commonly used, which led to the nicknaming of ganglion cysts as “Bible Bumps” or “Gideon’s Disease”…
I wonder if I can use a Qur’an.
AIM IM with EProuty.
04:17
one of the residents of my home was the subject of a front page article of the kalamazoo gazette today (sunday).in august her bike was stolen. because of her autism she had a bike specially designed for her needs, much more expensive than a normal bike. last sunday the gazette printed an article about her situation and asked for donations. by noon that day they had $350 in hand. by tuesday they had collected over $900 and had pledges for over $1000 more.
on tuesday we took her for a surprise trip to pick up her new bike. the smile was priceless.
thank you kalamazoo.
Ok, I have a bunch of stuff I need to blog about but for right now I wanted to lay this down here because it doesn’t make any sense to me at all and I want someone to maybe read it and explain to me how it would make sense to someone.
My boss yesterday was talking about cell phones and brought up some random “facts” about them. One of them was this, and it absolutely made zero sense to me. Anyhow, here’s the scenario:
Person A has locked her keys in the car. She uses her cell phone to call Person B on his cell phone. Person B happens to have a spare set of keys with the key fob (remote keyless entry door-unlocker-thingy). Person A points her cell phone at the car and Person B holds his key fob up to the phone and pushes the UNLOCK button. Somehow, through the miracle of modern technology and/or luminiferous aether, this will unlock Person A’s car.
The first question I had was, “how is that supposed to work?” And any answers my boss could come up with were horribly inadequate. He started to say something about how the phone “retransmits the sound…” of the key fob, which is about as wrong as anyone could get about wireless technology. It’s a transmitter, not a dog whistle.
I could go and get into some pretty technical stuff about how key fobs and transmitters and transceivers and cell phones work, but suffice it to say this:
A cell phone is only set up to receive radio signals of a particular type(frequency, data encoding, etc) and these signals are not the same as the ones sent out by the key fob. And that’s just on Person B’s end…
Now, don’t get me wrong—this is a pretty compelling idea. It reminded me of V for Vendetta where everyone has a cell phone that also acts as the TV remote, car starter, etc. It’d be way cool if I could program my cell phone to unlock/start my car, and if there isn’t a Lexus model out that lets you do it with Bluetooth I’m sure where will be one soon. But GSM networks (my boss has AT&T so I’ll use GSM as the example) are not set up to do the sort of thing he’s talking about, and I don’t know of any GSM phone that is set up to broadcast/receive in the same spectrum as a key fob. For the record, GSM operates at 850MHz and 1900MHz in the United States whereas most key fobs use 915MHz. Essentially, it’s like trying to use the wrong key in a lock. It just doesn’t work that way.
Also: How Cellphones work.
these guys are kinda hot for protestants
Whew, I made it home. I have to say that the Pennsylvania Turnpike is quite possibly the worst drive I’ve ever done. It’s hilly and very curvy and there’s no exits and almost nothing to look at. The mountain parts are pretty, but you don’t really get to see them very much when you’re driving because you have to curve around all the time. You can’t even use cruise control, which is totally my style of driving… just set the cruise for the speed you want and use the buttons to speed up and slow down when you need to, but you can’t do that going up and down hills and around curves. So yeah, thumbs down to the PA Turnpike west of Harrisburg. And rural Pennsylvania.
I do want to write more (especially for Logan, so he’s not bored) but I kind of feel the need just to chill out in my room right now.
Select highlights from the trip:
I also have a new internet boyfriend. He will remain a mystery man for now, but I’m totally excited about having a boyfriend over the internet that I’ve never met. I haven’t done that since I was like, sixteen.
Adam asked me Friday if I would help him drive to Philadelphia. He had no one else to help him, so taking pity on his poor soul I agreed. And I had never been to Philadelphia. Today I saw Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, as well as the American Philosophical Society and the Edgar Allen Poe house. Unfortunately my digital camera has finally given out so all the pictures I took were with my phone. I will probably upload them via MMS on the way back home. The Liberty Bell is smaller than you’d think, and the Poe house is empty. In my head, to myself I referred to all of the Park Rangers as “Mighty Morphin Park Rangers” because I’m a big dork. But the Park Rangers are all really nice.
I wanted to share the story of last night: Last night Adam left to meet someone, so I was by myself. I went outside and saw this little animal sniffing my foot. At first I thought “Oh look, a cute little stray cat” but then I looked again and it was a skunk! So I backed slowly away and then turned and ran. That would’ve been a great thing to happen, especially since I’d only packed one pair of pants!
So I was looking at this exhibit at the American Philosophical Society and what did they have one of Audubon’s books open to? A painting of a skunk!
Also, we stopped in at a grocery store and I took a picture of Philadelphia cream cheese.
this was a really, really retarded thing that happened at work, and it involved an entire team of retarded people working in close concert with one another:
Thursday I boxed up some recalled product to ship to Stericycle, taped the box shut and put the provided UPS label on it (which clearly read TO: STERICYCLE) and Arun brought it back to shipping/recieving at the end of the night. Today we found that same product back on the shelf. Which means:
Fucking retarded.
All I want for Christmas this year:
An assortment of other things I haven’t yet bought myself, in no particular order:
Also I have an ear infection, which is painful. Auralgan should be over-the-counter.
