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I don’t know about you, but I am getting very tired of the AT&T and Verizon ad wars. If you don’t know what I am talking about, let me fill you in.
It goes something like this:
Verizon: “We have tons more 3G coverage than you and we are going to flaunt it because you have the iPhone and we don’t, so there.”
AT&T: “We have tons of data coverage too….. in our own special way. Oh oh, and we have the fastest 3G network…… in the 3 or 4 places were we have 3G at all.”
Verizon: “Haha, your map sucks.”
AT&T: “DOES NOT!”
Verizon: “Oh, I’m afraid it does.”
AT&T: “Well…… everything you said is actually true, but we are going to sue you anyway because we don’t like you pointing out our deficiencies. OH OH, I just remembered something. You can talk on the phone and use data on our network at the same time. Can you do that on yours? Huh? Can you? Why don’t you pull out your iPhone and try it? Oh wait, you don’t have one.”
Verizon: “…..SHUT UP!”
AT&T: “YOU SHUT UP!”
And so forth.
As someone who uses the data plan on both networks, I can honestly say that in my area Verizon is way ahead of AT&T. Everywhere I go, I get 3G with Verizon. I can count on one hand the number of times I have been able to use 3G on AT&T. Usually, I’m stuck with their Edge data service, which I think got the name Edge because it skirts the edge of actually being useful, but mostly falls short. But even on such a craptacular network, the iPhone still rules. Most of the time, I use the built-in wifi and connect my iPhone to my Verizon access point so that I can have my cake and eat it to. Mmmmmm, cake.
It’s time for my annual I-hate-daylight-savings post or, more accurately, my I-hate-the-lack-of-daylight-savings-in-the-winter-months post. It’s not that I don’t enjoy stumbling around in the dark at 5:30pm, shivering like a chihuahua as I try to transport containers of wild animal feed around the yard so the area deer, cats, and two opossums named Scooter and Moped will not go hungry, or maybe that’s exactly it, I’m not certain. Or perhaps more likely, it’s Daylight Saving’s cavalier attitude toward the winter months. That’s fine, go ahead and keep thinking you are too good to be saving daylight in the winter and I will continue stumbling over Scooter and Moped, but so help me if I stumble over a skunk I will drive to wherever you are and punch you straight in the neck.
I realize I haven’t posted here in a while but rather than come up with something awesome and hilarious I am going to paste drafts of posts that were started but then came quickly to screeching halts. Here goes.
It’s roughly 736 degrees here right now and the foreseeable future is more of the same. On one hand it’s nice because my lawn no longer grows. On the other hand it’s not so nice because I almost died just walking out to the car. Plus I haven’t got to go biking in weeks for fear of bursting into flames.
I have become so accustomed to using a Mac, which I do 90% of the time, that I forgot how agonizing it can be to not only maintain Windows, but just to use it for mundane tasks. I’m not saying OSX is perfect, but I am saying I would like to light this Windows PC on fire and dance around it.
I got a bit of a sunburn today while swimming with hot chicks. It’s mostly concentrated on my face, which is not pleasant.
And that’s it. Three drafts that barely made it past the first sentence. And for good reason.
I recently discovered something called a Library. Have you heard of these things? It’s a building that you go into and just pick up any book you want, then tell a person behind a desk you are taking it and BAM, it’s yours. For free!!! What a wonderful invention.
At some point in the last two years I started keeping track of the books I read via Shelfari because I found myself accidentally buying a book I had already read but just forgot about. Since I started keeping track, I have read 141 books. At roughly $3.50 each, that is $494.50 I’ve spent on books. Surely there is something better I could have spent that money on like Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view events or candy. Well, the days of wasting my money on books are over because of this whole library thing. So far, I am on book number three. That’s $10.50 right in my pocket as long as you don’t count the fact that you have to buy a $30 card in order to get your free books. I don’t understand the complicated rules and policies, I just know that eventually I will start turning a profit.
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