Apple iPhone - I'm a Believer

Well after thinking about it during my trip to Deadwood (more on that trip later), I went ahead and picked up an iPhone. It was actually a very good experience overall from start to finish. This morning I checked out the Apple.com website and made an appointment to see an Apple Specialist at my local mall store (Rosedale Mall in Roseville). Upon arrival at the Rosedale Store I was hooked up with my specialist and he gave me a complete run-down of the iPhone. He split his time showing my items from a showroom floor model and his own personal phone, which was a nice touch as it showed he was a big believer in what he was selling. After about thirty minutes of discusision with additional questions from my wife I was on my way out the door with my new 8gig iPhone! Once I got home setup was easy enough via iTunes and I've been playing with the phone and all of its features for a couple hours already! I went outside and snapped a photo of the Acura using the 2meg camera onboard the phone for quality considerations. The video quality is amazing and I've imported a ton of my music and videos onto the iPhone already. I'll keep you all posted as I get used to my new phone!

WoW Tacoma Toyota Commercial

Awesome commercial aimed directly at World of Warcraft players. Kudos to Toyota for really thinking outside the box with this one!

Flight of the Conchords

My friend Josh posted a couple sweet vids from the duo Flight of the Conchords. I still feel love for the Kiwi nation after so many years of covering Lord of the Rings for my old website Ringbearer.org

You can check out the official band website here.

Geek Kon - Wisconsin Geeks Gather in Wisconsin

Spotted this story in my local paper - The Star Tribune:

MADISON, Wis. — More than 600 self-described geeks are expected in Madison this weekend for a two-day convention that includes role playing, video games, and lots of science fiction.

Others might call it Revenge of the Geeks. The organizers call it Geek.kon, with .kon standing for convention. Like any conference, it's a place for people with common interests to gather.

"Your average American citizen does not know what a LAN party is, nor Warhammer, nor LARP, nor cosplay,'' organizer and panelist Jackie Lee said.

The convention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sponsored by Geek.kon, a registered student organization made up mostly of members of the university's sci-fi and anime clubs, and the university's East Asian studies department.

"Madison is a great place for geeks, and we hope that Geek.kon will be a place for people to experience that,'' said Louise Behnke, one of the event's creators.

If anyone goes drop me an email or comment with your experience!

EcoGeeks Get Girls

My girl Maria recommmended this post from EcoGeek - here's a selection:

This isn't necessarily what EcoGeek is about. But I figure, as a fairly romantically successful EcoGeek with quite a few tricks up my eco-sleeves, I'd bestow some of my knowledge upon my faithful readers.

Now, I know that not all of you are guys, and I'm confident that many of those who are guys are quite capable of making the ladies swoon. But as a certified husband with a certified Master of Environmental Science, I would like to think that I have a special sort of knowledge.

So if you've got EcoGeek cred with the ladies, but aren't quite sure how to convert that into some good lovin' I've got a few suggestions...

Check out more of Maria's stuff at MariaEnergia.
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Now playing: Benzino Feat. Lil Kim & Petey Pablo - Rock The Party (Remix)
via FoxyTunes

Family Guy New Episodes

Have you been keeping up with the new Family Guy episodes? The Star Wars one was very funny! I've got my DVR set up to record all of em!


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Now playing: DJ Felli Fel Ft. Akon Diddy Ludacris Lil Jon - Get Buck In Here (Dirty)
via FoxyTunes

What I'm Up To Right Now

Updating my Fantasy Football Team - here's a link to my league - my team is the Country Bumpkins. And would you believe it? I've started off 4-0 this season!

The World Series of Poker is on TV. I watch it every Tuesday.

John Cena - the current WWE champ suffered an injury during a match this week so a new champ will be crowned at the next Pay-per-View. Should be very interesting to see what happens!

Some Quick Links - Friends and Cousins Update Their Sites!

My friend Josh updates The Anti-Trend Trend:

Thanks to an adventurous group, our sail back was undertaken as a night sale. In watches (shifts), the crew started for Thompson island, just a few ours from Thunder Bay. Lucky for us the night also happened to by highly active with meteor showers, and filled with enough wind to make using the engine unnecessary for the crossing (~30 miles). At Thompson island we were greeted by a lovely cove. The area had been converted into a haven for boaters. There was a sauna, trails, scenic views and a playground. My favorite memory of Thompson island was running from the sauna to jump into Lake Superior. Again, I can’t imagine a much more idyllic scene.

My cuz Francis updates SuperFlewisTravels. Perhaps to be renamed SuperFlewisStudies now that she is in law school!

Another cousin of mine is traveling to Egypt!

My friends and I often joke about how we can no longer speak English. We struggle for basic words, our search for "humanitarian" results in "humanoidistic", "knife" becomes "tool use cut sandwich sharp" and so on. It's not that our Arabic has become phenomenal, or that I have taken to expressing myself in Egyptian poetry rather than bother with English prose. Quite the contrary, my Arabic is only plateauing while my English descends, placing me smack in the middle of linguistic no-man's-land. Instead of being content with this battlefront, today I decided to enter a new theatre of non-communication.

Check out Pauline's blog Marhaba!

Finally, one of Maria's posts made the front page of Digg today via her Green Options gig.

Shameless commerce: I just finished up the 2nd to last book of the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind - check out the first in the series if you're looking for a good read.
Sword of Truth: Wizard's First Rule

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Now playing: Justin Timberlake - Losing My Way
via FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes - Control your music directly thru Firefox

I picked up FoxyTunes today:

The folks at FoxyTunes just added Blogger support to their Firefox plugin, which you can use to do a number of things, such as:

• Control your favorite music-playing app from your browser
• See what you’re currently listening to
• Append your current song to the bottom of new blog posts

Like this:
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Now playing: Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes
via FoxyTunes

Joram in the Bible

Yep - my name is from the bible - but I wasn't a total good guy in the Good Book :)

On Joram:

With no son to succeed Ahaziah, his brother Joram ascended to the throne to become the ninth king of divided Israel. Although an improvement on his parents Ahab and Jezebel, Joram ultimately failed to do right. He modified some of the worship of Baal, and at times had a respectful relationship with the prophet Elisha, but Joram lived in treacherous times. The nation of Aram was attacking from the east and God had set in motion an internal plot led by Jehu against Ahab's heirs. Finally Joram fell victim to Jehu's arrow ending the evil dynasty founded by Omri. Jehu took over the throne.

Via HolySpiritInteractive

Monopoly at McDonald's 2007 Rare Piece List

I stopped by McDonald's today for a quick bite and you get Monopoly pieces you can collect and also a code on each game piece you can enter online to basically play twice with each ticket! Fun times and a good way for MCD to collect a bunch of consumer info.

Here is a list of the "rare" game pieces via Wikipedia.

Property	2007 code	2007 prize
Mediterranean Avenue	801	$50
Vermont Avenue	804	$500
Virginia Avenue	808	$1,000
Tennessee Avenue	810	$5,000
Kentucky Avenue	812	$10,000
Ventnor Avenue	816	$25,000
Pennsylvania Avenue	820	$50,000
Boardwalk	822	$1,000,000 (annuity)
Short Line	826	$100

Play the McDonald's Monopoly game online here.

Starting to think about another new toy...

Well I'm still with AT&T Wireless... or is it Cingular... no it's back to AT&T again! So I'm thinking of finally upgrading from my old-school RAZR to a new Apple iPhone! I've only heard good things and it would be pretty sweet to have a nice new piece of tech in my pocket.

I'll let you all know if I decide to get one!

SNL - Iran So Far

I think they should do an entire show of digital shorts...

My new favourite GIF File - potatOWNED!

This makes my day everytime I see it!

Halo 3 - Official 90 Second Spot

Believe - pretty sweet trailer!

OktoberFest

A waitress whistles her way through the crowd as she rushes to customers with a load of full beersteins at the start of the Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. Millions of visitors are expected at the world's biggest beer and amusement festival. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)

Star Trek Animated GIFs

DaveMasteR999 does a lot of great animated gif videos for YouTube - here's a StarTrek one.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is best President!

Whoa - Combat Wombat

Spanish motocycle rider Alex Bautista poses with a wombat at the Maru Koala Park, Austrlia, in September 2006. Modern wombats are about one metre (three feet) long, 25 centimetres (10 inches) high and weigh 20-45 kilogrammes (44-100 pounds). (via Yahoo News)

Drama Prairie Dog

Starting to post again - reaction from a prairie dog...