Last week while Susan was out of town, I broke the unofficial “Code of Christmas” and bought not one but two things for myself in December. Fortunately, I feel pretty confident that neither of these items were already wrapped up and waiting for me underneath our Christmas tree. Coincidently, for this blog entry I used each new device to take a picture of the other one.
The first item was the Pentax K-x DSLR camera. I’ve been wanting a DSLR camera for a while now, and the K-x seems like a pretty good place to start. It’s a beginner’s DSLR, which means it still has auto focus and plenty of pre-set configurations for dozens of shooting situations, but it also gives you the ability to tweak settings to your heart’s content. The performance is light years past my old digital camera. Picture taking is instant, and the burst rate of almost five pictures per second has come in handy when taking pictures of the kids. I still have a lot to learn about photography, but this camera is making it fun. Most Pentax cameras only come in black, but the company is currently releasing the limited numbers of of the K-x in red, white and blue. My hope is that the bright red will decrease my odds of losing it. Not only does the camera capture 12.4 megapixel photos (in widescreen format, no less), but it also shoots HD video as well.
The other item, I am ashamed to admit, was an iPhone. I’m sorry. I held out as long as I could, but they finally got me. I’ve spent a long time buying “anything but Apple” products. I’ve suffered with crappy mp3 players because I refused to own an iPod, and I tried not to look envious as the sea of iPhone users around me showed me their cool apps. I’ve been an AT&T customer for over ten years now and I got tired of waiting on Droid and HTC phones to arrive, so I caved. I don’t care what you think. In fact, I probably won’t even notice you anymore because I’m going to be Twittering, Facebooking, and whatever-elsing 24/7 now like everybody else. I’ve been assimilated. God help us all.
Dude, between the new iPhone, that “I Love Pirates” sticker on your Dell, and your “Shoplifting vs File Sharing” blog post from the other day, you’re just begging for a knock on the door from your friendly neighborhood RIAA lawyer.
Last year when Mason got his guitar for Christmas, he requested “a cool sticker” to put on it. We first went to the mall and every sticker we found was either not age-appropriate, or was $4. Finally at Hastings we found stickers for a buck each, so I ended up guying several. I thought about sticking the “Pirates” one on my truck’s rear window, but decided against it. I also considered putting it on my netbook, but I use it at work all the time and figured I would get grief over it. I eventually just slapped it on the front of my desktop.
Back in the early-to-mid 90s, all of my computer cases were covered in bumper stickers and other stickers. I’m sure I have pictures somewhere.
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I just can’t bring myself to buy Apple. I’m still pissed about an old IIe issue I had back in the day (I wanted a C64, my dad brought me home an old, underpowered, out-dated IIe from his office when they switched to PC.) Yeah, I hold grudges for a bit.
Lovely camera : )
Whoooa! I have to share this.. the wife wants a Imac book laptop type thing.
Just the thought of going into the apple store makes my butt cheeks squeeze together. So im at the mall trying to figure out why and where im going to hand over my hard earnt on this laptop, knowing that whatever i buy will be outdated in January or wont be the trendy Ugg boot laptop model or somthing.
So thining who knows about computers? and in a flash mr Rob popped up in my head. If I think of porn i think Ron jeremy.. if I think about computers I dont think Bill Gates.. I think Rob Ohara.. So the phone call is made and much to my surpirse Rob answers. I explain my situation, theres a few seconds silence and Rob informs me of the dirty word I just used “apple”
In a really beat down tone he actually told me to just go into the apple store and buy one. I had disgusted this man. I had crossed the line. Just cause someone knows about pcs doesnt mean they know about apples. or macs or whatever they are calling it these days.
My kid was having a tantrum so it was a good excuse for me to thank Rob for his “advice” and hang up…
and then i read this….
so.. Rob.. hows it feel being out of the closet?
I don’t own an iPhone because the last thing I need is constant internet access. I would get absolutely nothing done. The fact that it has a million and one apps makes it even worse. I’d be homeless in a week, spare changing to keep my service running, lolz.
Hey, did you jailbreak your iPhone yet?
@Matt: Yeah, it’s pretty addictive. I pretty much don’t have “down time” anymore; I’m always checking Facebook, Twitter, or playing a game.
@Phrack: Before I made my first call.