A Work In Progres

How I Really Wanted To Start My iPhone 4 Review

“Is that what I think it is? Can I touch it?”

It’s a Wednesday night, I’m tired and I really just want to be left alone to have a drink or two with my friends who are visiting from out of town. I don’t feel like sharing my new toy with anyone, but I reluctantly hand it over to two pubescent girls that have run over from the other side of the bar to verify what they think I have. I’m not even sure these girls should be in a bar or maybe I’m just getting old and can’t tell how old anyone is anymore. They thank me, move on and probably Twitter about it. Others stop by and take a gander as word spreads that I’ve got an iPhone 4. I don’t feel like sharing anymore that night. I slip it back into my pocket for the rest of the night and have a few more drinks with my friends. “No one will care tomorrow,” I utter under my breath.

And then it devolved to this. http://techland.com/2010/06/28/apple-iphone-4-review-no-you-cant-touch-it/

I Have No Words

For whatever reason I wrote the following while trying to write a review. Of a phone. It had nothing to do with said phone. Strange.

Every morning I wake up and reach for my phone(s). Doesn’t matter where I am, who I’m with or what time of day it is. I check work e-mail and Twitter on my iPhone and then my BlackBerry for personal e-mail, text messages, and BBMs. (Shouldn’t it be the other way?)You might say I’m addicted. I am addicted. I live in a world where I spend 90% of my waking hours looking at a screen. Any screen. I communicate via these screens to the outside world and sometimes the world that’s a mere two feet away. You’ll hear more clicks and taps than you will vowels and consonants being spliced together. I rarely speak.

Comments

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What’s in a name

When I started this tumblr page in 2008 (or was it 2007?) I had wild aspirations about the content that would live on it. A daily photo blog seemed like a fun idea, but I haven’t taken a photo that wasn’t for work since. Sad, really. It’s still unclear what I plan to do with this but I’m sitting on the couch watching a baseball game and avoiding cleaning my apartment. This seemed like a good time to get started.

What’s with the name?

The domain name was an accident. I actually thought I was buying aworkingprogress, but I missed the last ‘s’ while checking out. It’s fitting now that I think about it. I’ve never known what I wanted to do with this tumblr, so it really is a work in progres.