Giggity: New iPad specs leaked

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The Wall Street Journal published leaked specs on the upcoming iPad. Apple is outdoing itself on this one.

The new iPad consists of two contact lenses and ten rubber thimble things. You put the thimbles on each finger for typing and moving around the screen which appears like Iron Man’s vision on your retina.

They’re calling it the iPad Iron Man.

Read more about it here.

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iPhone cometh

Today I’m expecting my iPhone to arrive. I’m so obsessed with its arrival that every time I woke up last night, I tracked it.

I tracked it probably 6 times.

FYI, right now it’s in Chicago at a distribution facility. At 4 a.m. it was in Indianapolis. Yesterday it spent the day in Anchorage AK.

Steve, did you greet it at the facility and keep it warm for me?

My neighbor Nadine called me yesterday and asked if I would take her to get an MRI out in the suburbs today. It will probably take 3 or 4 hours to do. Of course my giving, loving, atheist self took over and told her, “Of course, I’ll take you. No problem.” My selfish self thought, “What about my phone! It might come when I’m not home!”

You know, if I wait for the phone, it won’t get here until 5 p.m. anyway. It’s a bit superstitious, but it seems inevitable. It’s like when I’m at the grocery store, I inevitably get the line that a person pays with a check and the receipt tape runs out. So there I am with my tomato paste, a six pack and my smiling face reassuring the bitch in front of me that it’s okay that she’s paying with a check, the cashier is fumbling over a new roll of paper and they decide to do a price check on two pair of children’s sunglasses that she thought was buy one get one.

Somedays a quick trip to the grocery store takes me upwards of five years.

I thought about the iPhone delivery when Nadine called, and I knew right away that I’d rather miss the delivery than miss an opportunity to help her. Nadine has had a series of back injuries that really suck. Someday I’ll be in a similar boat, and I want people to be that kind of a person to me if the roles were reversed.

Anyway, don’t forget to do something selfless today. Maybe do a lot of selfless.

It does the body good.

If I get my phone, I’ll get all zealous and update with tons of pictures and video. You may not recognize me except for the bags under my eyes seeing I stayed up like a school boy waiting for Christmas to come last night.

Some context for the last shot

There’s a meme going around with sad Keanu. They’ve been pretty funny. Here’s one I pulled the day after the iPhone 4 was released, but I forgot to post it.

iOrdered iPhone

My phone has been in disarray for some time, and I’ve been patiently waiting for the iPhone 4 to come out so I can order one.

The wi-fi doesn’t work, which basically renders it no better than any phone. Having wi-fi makes the phone hum, especially for common tasks like email and internet browsing, but also for sharing files and controlling our condo’s sound system. The wi-fi glitched out about 4 months ago. I took it to Apple, but they said, “You have to buy a new phone. It’s not worth fixing.” I decided that I would wait to buy a new phone seeing that a new one was scheduled to be announced soon.

There are a bunch of other issues. I’ve actually talked other people out of buying a phone like mine, because of the issues it has. The battery life sucks. The wi-fi issue is a known problem.

I’m hoping that I can get more use out of the camera and video camera than the average bear. I’ve been putting off buying a point and shoot camera as well as a little Flip for some time. Perhaps the new iPhone with its HD video recordings and 5 megapixel photos with flash will satiate the need for buying those two devices separately.

All in all, it’s a luxury buy that I think I can justify.

What’s something luxury that you’ve bought lately that you kind of felt guilty about? A friend of mine recently returned a Canon T2i and bought a 3d Television. I almost smacked him in the face.

I will determine whether or not your guilty purchase is worth a smack in the face or not.