The Pond

Sort of an interesting quote in an article describing a problem with the LHC.

Cern spokesman James Gillies said on Saturday that the sector that was damaged would have to be warmed up well above absolute zero so that repairs could be made.

One would imagine that having any space well above the point at which matter ceases to have any energy would be important for getting into the area to do repairs. Probably better at least get it to the point that the air is a gas again. Good plan.

iTunes Guilty pleasure songs:

So…its been going around to list your 5 biggest guilty pleasure iTunes songs. So…here we go…

Snow by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

I’d heard it many times, but the time that sticks with me is when I heard it on Californication on Showtime. I can usually only make it around 2:30 into the song, but…it’s a 2:30 I secretly adore.

I Got it From My Mama by Will.I.Am

My brother called me when he heard this on the radio. He thought it was one of those joke radio station songs. It will live on that way in my mind forever, and it makes me laugh every time I get to the line “if your mama’s real ugly I guarantee you’ll be ugly like your mama”.

Today by The Smashing Pumpkins

It’s a good song. The rest of their career is sort of embarrassing. I’m careful to point out to anyone who sees Smashing Pumpkins in my iTunes library that ‘Siamese Dream’ is the only album in there.

Hey There Delilah By Plain White T’s

They rhyme ‘you’ and ‘true’. I mean. And yet I can’t click past it. My inner critic openly weeps while the rest of me enjoys the song.

Rehab by Amy Winehouse

Do I need to clarify?

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we found this hat in price chopper this weekend. High fashion in Marlborough, MA, I tell you.

Waiting for Monday
Keynote is a fun day.

Tuesday we see
we wanted more than just 3G

Wednesday is for despair:
There’s hardly anything there.

Thursday we’ll prepare
to wait sixteen hours.

Because we know we can’t avoid
Apple’s shiny new toy.

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Seriously, though, keep hating the iPhone 3G, just like you did the 2G, so that I can get one on launch day.

iPhone 2G cost:

$59 voice * 24
$20 data * 24
$15 sms * 24
$499 iPhone ($599 – $100 rebate)
$250 Termination on TMobile

–

First month: 843
over 2 years: 3005

iPhone 3G

$59 voice * 24
$30 data * 24
$15 sms * 24
$299 iPhone

–

first month: 403
over 2 years: 2795

By my rationale, I’m saving money! (lol).

Yeah, so. No included SMS, an extra $10 worth of data, and activation required at purchase are the big downsides. Of course, I would activate anyway, but part of the superness of the original iPhone was not having to deal with that idiotic process at the store. On the other hand, perhaps Apple had more problems with activation at the start than was reported. I had no difficulty, but that’s not to say that it went smoothly for everyone. Maybe the goal is to avoid that this time around. Having had my iPhone replaced once over the course of its short life (bubbles under the screen), I can say that the activation process in the store is pretty darn fast for existing users. My guess is that it will be pretty quick on launch day as well.

The nice part about the 2g launch, however, was that even if your activation took a few hours (as some of them did), you could make a snack, walk the dog, grab a soda, etc. I’d hate to have to hang around the Apple store as the crowds pile up, if activation does take that long. By the time they let us into the store last year, there were definitely a few people in line that I wasn’t going to keep in touch with

Apple stock is, as usual, down after the event, as it has been after nearly all of these events. I’ll have to watch the keynote later, but the text version seemed pretty slow. Lots of 3rd party apps, etc. It will be a while before we have a keynote like the iPhone introduction again, I think.

Hi internet. Just wanted to thank you for this post.

I think every other time I’ve had the foreign key check problem, MySQL has complained about the keys instead of just returning the ERROR 1005. Or maybe I just haven’t run into the problem in a while, and my brain has turned to sludge.

Anyway, thanks for the post — saved me some time this morning