While I attempt to get my notes and photos organized/cleaned up/uploaded, I just wanted to let you know that I did mail out 70 postcards (it set me back $130! – 635 Dkr and €11 – 10 from Brussels while I was at the airport). Perhaps I should consider e-postcards, but those don’t have that same effect.
I’m curious to how long it will take for them to arrive but you should be getting them by Valentine’s day.
Tyrone Briggs, who is fast becoming the John Shaft of ripping on Chicago’s worst columnist, wrote up a nice list of how Jay Mariotti has flipped in his support of Lovie Smith. Hilarious to see someone go from ripping on Lovie to giving him a backhanded compliment to ripping on him again – in the same article.
I’m not dead, so please don’t get all excited if you have me in your deadpool.
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted. I’m en route back from Copenhagen with stories to share. Currently, I’m in Brussels awaiting the train ride home to Chicago. I miss home and I miss inexpensive everything. There’s nothing quite like a $10 beer and a $4 soda to make you feel like Chicago is a bargain.
I’m up to 73 postcards – if you haven’t gotten in or given me your addresses and stuff, let me know…
Who would have thought that SNL was capable of being brutally funny?
Congrats! What a game! When it was 16-14, I was severely nervous but they brought it home. The Bears haven’t been to a Super Bowl since I was in third grade. It’s been too long but our men Lovie and Rex will bring it home.
Looking back on where I’ve been in the world, I think I’ve been to a few dangerous places throughout the world. Granted, I’m not talking Mogadishu or Mosul. After looking at statistics, the place I’ve been with the most crimes per capita is The Vatican. No kidding. In 2006, there were 341 civil and 486 criminal cases for a population of 492 – roughly 1681 crimes per 1000 people. In the US, it’s 80 per 1000.
Granted, a lot of their crimes are pickpockets and nothing major (you don’t have many drive-bys in the Holy See) – still, statistics are quite interesting.
This is generally the time of year where the technology toys come out. Macworld had the debut of the iPhone. Everyone seems to have a hardon for the iPhone but I remain skeptical. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it looks sexy, but it’s not the phone for me. Here’s why:
1) No Exchange support. While this doesn’t look quite like a business phone, it still would be cool to rock the house in meetings and ditch my Blackberry.
2) Price. $499 for a 4GB one and $599 for a 8GB one? Yes, I know other phones at launch are roughly the same price but Apple doesn’t seem like they’d be able to hold the price down 3 months after launch.
3) Locked to Cingular. How about showing us fellow GSMers some love? Sure, the enhanced voicemail things are cool, but who keeps 1800 voice mail messages? I listen to one, delete it and on the rare occasion, I save it.
4) EDGE. C’mon – if it’s on Cingular, couldn’t you go slightly faster with HSPDA? EDGE is barely tolerable on my Blackberry or MDA.
5) No 3rd party apps. That’s what makes smartphones that much smarter – the fact that any coder can whip up some killer apps. All my favorite apps for my MDA are written by small companies or hobbyists.
The funny thing to me is that I’m bashing Apple while I write this on my MacBook while transcoding some videos for my iPod.
It’s Nerd Thursday!
Until I’m off to Copenhagen. There will be something rotten in Denmark, indeed. I’m looking forward to this. For the last few weeks I’ve been in a funk and this is putting a smile on my braces covered face.
My postcard list has sort of grown out of control. When I went to Dubai, it had 75 names on it, and some of it was people who I hardly hear from and was thinking, wow – I’m an asshole for sending postcards to them.
Out of my regular blog readers who have blogs, I have Jeff/Amy, Amy, Jackie, tsandhol/hsandhol, Zack and Simanek on my permanent list. Does anyone want to be on the permanent list or removed from the list? Enquiring minds want to know!
And only two weeks to go before I make a trip where I’ll actually send postcards. Woo for me!