For those of you who haven't been within earshot of me this week, I bought myself a Nexus One

I'm not going to review it right now but suffice it to say that it's quite nice and works just fine on the AT&T network, although I plan on switching to T-Mobile shortly.

The phone comes loaded with about a dozen songs or so from musicians I've never heard of mostly, so I felt I should listen to them. So I've got my headphones on, quietly fiddling with my phone and not-really-jamming-out to music that's not really my scene, when I start getting that morse-code-from-God that tells you you're about to get a text message or phone call or something. And I start thinking, shit, I don't know how to answer the phone! So I wait for something to pop up ... and nothing happens. And then I think gosh usually the buzzing doesn't last so long. And then it dawns on me- some doofus made a techno remix of GSM handshake interference, and some other doofus thought it would be great to include it as a bonus track [and also ringtone] on the phone. [Ali Spagnola: Radiation]

Also I am apparently the only person in the world who hasn't seen this.



- Z

the guy who invented 'I'm only watching it for the commercials.' Any ad exec that can make a couple million hipsters not just sit through but pay attention to ads for Walt Disney World and Kentucky Fried Chicken -during a football game nonetheless- and admit it deserves that Ferrari in his living room I'm sitting this one out, but I'm rooting for the Saints - their fans are crazier than Bills fans, and that alone deserves a trophy.

I see Google's stepped up advertising on the Nexus One, and I'm trying to convince myself it would be dumb for me to get one. My first-generation iPhone is still up to the task, except for that part where the maps take their sweet time loading every time I get lost in Hamburg again.

The specs are better than even the current-generation iPhone almost across the board and the service through T-Mobile tends to run about $25 per month cheaper than AT&T.

It doesn't help that I'm not too thrilled with AT&T right now .. the data/text plan for B's new iPhone runs about $15/month more than my old one. We're also paying about $30/month in overages, but adjusting our plan to cover our usage will only save us $10/month. If I switched to T-Mobile, we'd both have individual plans that would end up costing what we're paying now. If she didn't have a year and a half left on her contract, we could both switch to T-Mobile, save $35/month, and still not have a contract.

Of course, I could get the Google Phone and stick with AT&T but that would be kind of dumb, since I'd still have cruddy data rates and that's really the only thing that bothers me.

Or I could put $500 in an envelope and leave it under a rock.

- Z

I'm not entertaining questions about how I found this. Suffice it to say, if you look hard enough on the Internet, in just the right places, you can totally find pictures of naked people doin' it. But that's besides the point.

If you've got an hour and a half to spare and are looking for either a good laugh or some exceedingly challenging JO material, go ask Alice



- Z

I'll give 150 inter nets to the first person who can find me a copy of the Law & Order CHUNG CHUNG that doesn't sound like crap. Papa needs a new text message alert.

- Z

Got my new work computer, first thing I had to do [naturally] was change the wallpaper. Apple's stock selection of wallpapers is kind of crappy, so I was surprised to see that they've snuck in The Great Wave off Kanagawa [which blew my mind at 2560x1440]:



...reminded me of this great one I saw in someone's house:



...and, somewhat less directly, this commercial which I swear I've posted before but now I can't find it again:



- Z