Yes...

Bought.

NEW.

Why is this a big deal? It's like this with me and phones:

I usually try and cheat the system. My phones have always been outdated. They've always been the types I'd acquired via equipment replacement programs by claiming they dropped into the lake, sewer, well...whatever. I did that when I was sick of a phone and figured it was cheaper to get upgrades that way. That's because sucky Sprint used to give NEW customers the best phones FREE and leave the 8 year pre-exhisting customers high and dry. So while all my friends had cool phones like Kitanas and Razors, I was stuck with thick bulky crap phones.

Last week I was going through the Sprint site. They were offering the Samsung M610 for $279. $49 for NEW customers and $179 AFTER a mail in rebate (meaning you had to pay in full first and wait for a rebate in the mail).
Screw that! I was in Best Buy and they had a deal for $79 for old customers along with new customers getting it for $49. Now that seemed fair to me. The offer was only good til 6/16 so I said "fuck it" and went for it.

I could have had a Kitana or a Razor for free, but everyone and their mother has those so I wanted something different.

BEHOLD...the NEW hotness!:

The worlds thinnest, sleekest clamshell phone!

Technical and photographic comparisons in the extended entry. (GEEK inside)

I bought a bike today. A Trek 7100. Actually I bought it last week and picked it up today. I decided that the only way I'm gonna get into performing weight was to actually do something fun. Walking bored me. I remembered how as I young teen, my sister and I would bike to many neighboring towns. I enjoyed it I enjoyed the freedom of biking.

Americans are suffering from an obesity epidemic, so I thought to myself that that statistic is not for me to be a part of. Maybe I just wanna be hot again.So some of this blog may reflect just how far I get into this project.

I have two types of friends. The bike snobs that say you need to spend at least $500 on a bike and then there's bike ignorant who think that buying a bike in Walmart for $100 is the way to go. I've found in my travels that you get what you pay for. $100 bikes break, especially when they are built by layman at home and not by professionals. I mean...these people at the bike shop want me to bring it in after a month to get a "tune up" as they say it starts to change after you ride it for a month.

Some tell me.."naw dawg! You can get a phat bike for $200 from Toys R Us". Great... just what I need: a bike so heavy it gives me a coronary and a bike seat jammed up my ass and sore elbows because the seat and forks don't have shock absorbing suspension. Especially since I live in a hilly area.

The little dome is a tiny bell. I dig the black wheels.

I may have not spent a fortune, but I didn't cheap out even if it is the starting model. Instead of 24 speeds, I have 21. Not a big deal to me since the last time I rode a bike, I had a 10 speed. I do like the fact that the shifter is reminiscent of a motorcycle throttle.

More pics in the extended entry for the bike enthusiast.

It started with this comparison of the Star Trek original series communicator and the Motorola Star Tak. We've been trying to duplicate the future we've created in our minds.

The other day I was amazed when I walked into a Comp USA and saw the Motorola "MING" A1200 Smartphone.

Somehow I MUST have one. My inner geek is screaming for it... only it's not available through my provider... This seems to be the closest thing to a competitor to the iPhone.

Oddly, this is the closest we've made to a communicator without the cheesy 60's look seen here:

This will become one of my new geek mission indulgences... to obtain one.

Serious geeks can view the tech specs in the excerpt.

I could just die.

It's official. The internet is evil. And not the good kind.

So I'm watching the 10 o'clock news and I see a report on women bashing their ex boytfriends on websites like "Don't Date Him Girl" and "Those who cheat". This is wrong in so many ways. First of all, no matter what bad press there is, especially on the internet, it's practically impossible to get the bad taste out of someones mouth.

At work, I carry a product that's awesome! Sure, it's gone through a few prior generations that needed tweaking. now it's pretty much perfect. Yet in it's early incarnation Epinions had a few ancient postings about the product. Now since then mind you, this government researched project got a few poor reviews and a LOT of lies about it. Subsequently, I can only successfully get this product delivered if no one had been to Epinions. We've found that over time, it was our competitors, who could not carry this fine product, posting these statements... only problem was, the public has no idea who to believe now, because Epinions is supposed to be some sort of reliable viable source.

Basically, slander sites suck because people seem to religiously believe whatever they read on the net as if it's law. I once had the same problem. no matter what it said...it could say "Hitler found alive in a hospice in Des Moines", I would have believed it. Then I found that I lost my cyber-lemming disease.

So back to these trash talkin' bimbos. Not that I've been featured on this site, but I feel violated. I can imagine if it was doen to me. Sure, there's probably a few legitimate claims, but I can bet 70% of the allegations are bogus. What if I had a site called "She's a big fat ho dot com"? Then have men go on and rag about women and call them sluts and pigs and other rude comments? Doesn't sound so fair now, does it?

Sure, "Don't Date Him Girl" gives the guys a platform to rebut the statements, but c'mon...who's gonna stop to read it? The girls won't believe him, and his reputation is ruined. PLUS he has no real legal recourse when it comes to BBS sites. They aren't responsible for posts made by others.

And although "Those who cheat" cliams it's equal opportunity rantings, its emphasis is for WOMEN. Either way, these sites are slander at it's internet worst.

I can't stop it... but I don't have to like it.