On Friday, I was leaving the house to go run some errands and decided to go check my mail. I set my iPhone and my shopping list on top of the car, went out to the mailbox, and then got in the car and left.
When I left the bank I got into my car and realized I’d forgotten about the phone. It wasn’t on the car by that time, of course, so I drove back to the house very slowly, looking at the opposite lane for any sign of the phone. Got home, didn’t find it, then decided to drive back out. Found it about a block away from my house, face down, with a big tire mark on top of it.
The phone was burning hot (it was 100 degrees out), but oddly enough, it was still on. It was inside an Xtreme Mac Tuffwrap case, and once I took it off, the body actually looked normal. The glass had major scratches in it but it turned out to be the plastic Invisible Shield I put on it - once I peeled it away, the glass was actually perfectly fine. The LCD was smeared and damaged, but legible. Texting, checking email, and Wifi worked, but then it wouldn’t let me answer calls and started acting funny.
I took it to the Apple store at Town Center here in Vegas (do you know they have two Apple stores within like 3 miles of each other?) and got a replacement for $200 (not a 3G, they were sold out and I didn’t want to wait for new stock or sign another contract).
Anyway, that’s what happens to the iPhone when it gets run over by a car. I washed the Tuffwrap case (the grease and tire marks came off fine) and put it on the new phone, and I’m back to normal. I think this phone has better battery life than the old phone.
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Kelly has always asked me what my type of girl is.
Here she is:
Source: 1960s ad for rice [BoingBoing]
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I thought I saw Kelly and Caroline today at Lula in Santa Monica, but it turned out it wasn’t them. We were eating lunch and I saw them walk by on the sidewalk and did a double-take. They were both wearing sunglasses and I could have sworn it was them, but then they came in the restaurant and took off their sunglasses and I realized they were impostors.
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Over the weekend, I built a desktop computer out of regular PC parts that runs OS X. It’s sort of a $900 equivalent to a $3,300 Mac Pro, except slightly less powerful. It’s way faster than my MacBook.
For the technically curious, it’s a Q6600 quad-core machine with 4GB of RAM. There is a pair of 750GB drives in it, one for data and one for Time Machine (they are respectively named Crockett and Tubbs). Everything seems to work well, except for the Firewire card, which seems to have issues with my external audio interface, and intermittent sync issues with the Apple wireless keyboard. I think these are pretty easily fixed, so I’m pretty confident this will be my main workstation now.
Some people have been reverse-engineering OS X to run on non-Apple hardware for awhile now, so it wasn’t any more difficult than building a regular desktop computer and installing Windows. In particular, I used this guide for purchasing parts and setting everything up.
Yup, there is nothing else to do out here in Vegas.
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It rained earlier in the day and it was a full moon last night, so I went to the Strip last night to shoot some more photos. This time it was the middle of the Strip, around the corner of Flamingo & Las Vegas Blvd. I forgot most of what I learned from the last time I went (shooting in ASA 200 seems to be better than higher ASA), and I barely remember towards the end. Have to go shooting more often.
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Am doing okay over here. Life hasn’t changed all that much. Miss everyone back in L.A.
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