It’s officially time for the XMASLIST. Here goes:
- A car would be nice. Like this one. ($$$$$)
- Maybe an Xbox. And Halo. ($$)
- A G5. Loaded or not. + Cinema Display. ($$$ – $$$$)
- Clothes. Shirts, pants, I don’t care. Shoes too. ($$)
- Since it’s a wishlist, how about some local Cingular service? (-)
- And a decent phone. ($$)
- What’s a wish list without a TV? ($$$$)
- Drums! ($$$)
- Money ($$$$$)
Since the move earlier this year, we’ve acquired much of what we wanted. Abe made the excellent point that with most of the stuff we want, we just buy it. I need to stop doing that or start making more money.
Speaking of money, I’ve been sent a lot of fake credit cards as of late – you know, the ones that look real but say “YOUR NAME HERE.” Well, Discover sent one that’s almost not worthy. It’s made of cardboard, kind of to simulate plastic. That is really probably the most pathetic thing I’ve seen. It wasn’t even attached to anything, just floating around in the envelope.
Let me start by congratulating you on you recent marriage with AT&T Wireless! Believe me when I say that I’d jump at the chance to take advantage of your services. Right now I’m stuck between backwater local services or Sprint. Not to say that Sprint is horrible, but they’ve never been my first choice.
Unfortunately, mine seems to be one of the only areas in the United States where your service is not available. How about being a pal and changing that, so no more will I have to watch your rollover commercials longingly. And hey, how abouts hooking me up with one of those Nokia 6620s. We could call it square then, and I can forget those hundreds of commercials you’ve shown me, effectively wasting hours of my life and using up quality TV-viewing time.
Thanks, Andy Laub
PS: T-Mobile, don’t feel bad. You’d be OK too, but leave Catherine Zeta-Jones and bring me a 6600 instead. That’s almost the same thing. I guess we could work something out with a Moto V600 or a Samsung too.
I voted today. I hope it makes some sort of difference. That’s all I’m saying about that.
More things:
New iPods – eh, I guess they’re alright. I don’t really have a use for putting pictures on an iPod – I mean, it might come in handy if we see connectivity to camera phones or something, but that would require a much higher resolution picture to even make the iPod a worthwhile storage option. I am kind of sad that the 60 gig HD is exclusive to the iPod Photo, but then again I’m not buying another one any time soon so it doesn’t really matter. The U2 iPod is a neat admittedly gimmicky thing, but I wouldn’t consider any iPod that doesn’t include a dock, especially since for $10 more than adding a dock for your U2 iPod (which I don’t even suppose would match?) you can double your storage and get a dock anyway.
Grand Theft Auto – still fun.
I don’t overly know what else is going on. I am counting down the months (kind of) until my cell contract expires (I’ve got awhile – it’s July) and I can finally get a new one. I don’t know that I’ll stick with what I have now. Sprint is a viable option, but we’ll see what kind of phones are available when the time comes. I have always been a fan of Nokias although Motorola almost kind of has me liking them with the V600. Unfortunately, poor Mac support is enough to drive me away.
Cingular is merging (merged?) with ATT Wireless. Good for them. We’d be all set if they’d just come to Wausau (or buy Cell One)
Here’s a thought, Apple. You now have an iPod store. Don’t fill up the top space of the regular store with the iPod crap. I swear to God, if you change from a computer company that makes music players to a music player company that also makes computers I will drop you like a hand grenade.