24!
Today, I turn 24. Now, time for revelry. Fireworks. Planetariums. South Africa. And like such as. I’ve posted a picture up top of some wrapped presents from family, with more pics to follow.
I would like to take this sentence-paragraph and inform both of my readers that I am well aware that no one will care about this but me and my immediate family.
That being said, let my first ever birthday live blog commence! At this time, ideally, I would have Robin Williams do a bit with a large, mainly solitary, arboreal ape, with long reddish hair, long arms, and hooked hands and feet, native to Borneo and Sumatra. The mature male develops fleshy cheek pads and a throat pouch. At this point, however, the differences between the two may be negligible. Instead, I will just post pictures from the day at the top of this post.
P.S. I just listened to Jimmy Eat World’s song “23″, which seemed appropriate. Great song.
Early to Mid Twenties
My final day at 23, and my early twenties, is coming to a close. Tomorrow, I celebrate 24, enter my mid-twenties, and enjoy Star Wars Day! I was going to tweet this, but a short blog post seemed more apropos. And longer to boot. I plan to blog my birthday tomorrow, with events, eating, and presents. Not to mention the whole thing will be televised. Okay. That’s all for now. See you when I’m 24.
Crackberry
Just got a new Blackberry Curve 8330. It’s incredible. My life has finally culminated to a pinnacle I fear it will never reach again. I jest. But leaving all that aside, let’s discuss my sweet new gadget with whosits and whatsits galore, that my (beware the lack of commas here for a sec) wonderfully awesome incredibly loving parents got for me for my birthday (early, since my birthday is May 4th…but you knew that).
First of all, it isn’t a touch screen, which is a huge plus in its favor. If it isn’t made by Apple, a touch screen is like a bad game of golf. It makes you question everything about your very fragile existence, all things golf not excluded. The same is true of the products that are created by companies that aren’t Apple when they attempt the elusive “touch screen” mobile device. I personally had the LG Dare, a well-meaning phone, but one whose promise isn’t much more than that, just a promise. It wants so desperately to be the iPhone, but it just isn’t there yet. In a few years when things start to really get there with touch screen technology, then maybe. Now, granted I have not used the G-phone yet with T-Mobile, but I’ve pretty much only heard great things. So with those two exceptions (iPhone/iTouch and the G-phone), stay away from touch screen mobile devices.
Since it isn’t touch screen, it has freaking buttons! I bout lost my shiz when I was able to actually click real live buttons again. Buttons with substantive physical presence. And it’s QWERTY, which is fantastic. I learned to type QWERTY, and I’ve gotten pretty good at it, so typing ABC123 just isn’t my thing. Intelli-type was good in its day, but QWERTY is here to stay, so just hop on board, friends. And learn to type without looking. You’ll thank yourself.
It has the ability to download apps, something I’ve never been able to do on the phones of my Christmas past. It also has the Blackberry App Store, like the iPhone App store, so hopefully it will live up to its predecessor. Indeed, time will tell. So far, though, with themes and apps, I’m slowly making this phone into exactly what I want/need.
Going off of that: I have wanted for some time to get to the point where I was able to really only take one or at most two devices with me when I leave the house. I’ve really wanted it to just be one, with all my contacts, calendar events, music, email, social networks, ceiling cats, etc., all over it, ready for me to delve into my handheld world at a moment’s notice. I think I’m eerily close. The one thing holding me back right now is the music factor. I love music. Period. It’s what keeps me going a lot of the time. In fact, as I write this, I’m listening to Pandora on my Blackberry. As such, I like to have lots of music. With a 4GB miniSD chip, only so much can go with me. I need to be able to put something like 20GB of my music on my phone in order for it to essentially be a contender with my 80GB ipod/8GB iTouch combo that goes with me wherever I go, especially on the CTA, making commuting more of a chance to listen to music than a pain in the arse.
It’s the best phone I’ve ever owned as far as I can tell, and I look forward to seeing what I can do with it. You may think I’m ridiculous for being so excited about technology. In that case, screw you and the high horse you road in on. I keed, I keed. But seriously, get over yourself. And get a Blackberry, so I can message you.
Talk soon,
Neal