Howdy friends, happy Thursday to all. We techs here at the Q see a lot of broken iPod LCD screens everyday. It is our pleasure to take these broken screens out, recycle them, and install a crystal clear new one just for you! Well, I’ve been here for quite some time and I’ve always wondered; What could I do with these broken screens? Guess what, I figured it out. About 3 months ago I began taking the mirrors out of the backs of all of these LCD screens, be it a Nano, a Video, an iPod Touch, or an iPhone I want the mirror. Why would somebody want these mirrors you may ask? Oh, you are going to love this. I’ve made my own little funhouse at my desk. Thats right, in the spirit of the classic traveling carnival I have installed a house of mirrors to keep my spirits high all day long, even on the longest of days. I’ve got to say, it’s a hit I’m thinking about adding a few small disco balls, what do you think?
If you look really close you can see your reflection!
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Today, Carl Peterson, GM of my beloved Kansas City Chiefs, decided to trade Defensive End Jared Allen, who led the league last year with 15.5 sacks and even caught two td passes. These achievements were all accomplished on a hilariously horrible team that went 4-12 and lost their last 9 games to cap off 2007. Allen will go to Minnesota to play for the Vikings and was rewarded with the salary he should have received here in my opinion. Good for him. In exchange, KC received a 1st round pick (17) and two third round picks as well as a 6th round swap (if I remember correctly).
The logic of the organization seems to be “get better by getting younger”. The philosophy began taking form today with the Chiefs trading the grizzled and worn 26 year old veteran who is also widely considered to be the best player on the team.
I’m not really sure what the idea Peterson is trying to get across here other than infuriate the KC fan base. Anyways, instead of sitting here complaining about the astounding credentials of a GM who has won all of 1 playoff game in 15 years, I will post a pic of our old friend Jared Allen, the man Carl Peterson himself and also this random animated gif.
I hope you have a better day than we do here in KC. Heck, maybe we’ll get Jared Allen’s iPod in for repair someday.
In Apple news, there is some major hype about the new 3G iPhone coming out. All sorts of rumors that involve radical design changes to when it will be released . The newest rumor is that Italy will be skipping the 2G version all together and will have the 3G in their hands this summer! Italy has not only the best food, architecture, cars, and wine in the world but will now also have the best phone ever.
In Troy news, I will be going to Omaha this weekend to see the best jazz and standards performer of our time, Michael Buble, at the Quest Center; it should be a nice time. We also intend on going to the famed Omaha Zoo for a relaxing day with the chimps. So if you are in Omaha and need your iPhone or iPod repaired let me know and we can have a workshop right there at the zoo
Well its sad to say that today will be my last blog entry ever (Applause). Don’t cry now- I will still be repairing your iPhones. As a last gift to my faithful readers; a picture worth a thousand words.
Hello to all of you cool cats out there in internet land. My name is Bryan and this is, as the title says, my first blog ever. It couldn’t have come at a better time either because I had a fantastic last week. 168 hours ago I was just going to sleep after my first night of a weekend in Las Vegas. With flashing lights and bittersweet ringing in my ears I was just starting what would come to be a very sleepless weekend in Vegas.
What could make a trip to Vegas even better, you ask? Well friends, that would of course be my fabulous new iPhone that I got only 2 days before I left! Thats right, yours truley now has an iPhone and I love all 8 shiny, glistening gigabytes of it. I now finally have everything I need in my pocket- well, except for my drums. Ol’ Steve should get on that, make me a portable Apple drum kit stat! That’s actually a pretty good idea- I am going to stop this blog now so that I can start engineering my “idrums”.
In taking all that I have learned from the fantastic Mick, I would like you all to enjoy this animated .gif. Think about it, and have a great weekend.
Period. Watch this. Then watch it again. Oh yeah, and I bought my wife a 32GB iPod Touch for her birthday. The new software is fantastic. Now watch the monkey again.
So can you remember the last time you stepped into a Blockbuster? Yeah… neither can I. I mean, does anyone out there still go out to Blockbuster to rent their movies? With so many new options that don’t involve getting out of your house, it seems that Blockbuster is a bit scared. I mean you can rent movies in so many different ways now. You can go to your local McDonald’s go up to the new redbox and rent a movie for $1 a night and return it to any other McDonald’s. You can go online to Netflix and choose your movies and they will mail them to you, and when you’re done you just mail them back. Now with the new iTunes you can rent movies that download straight to your MacBook, MacBook Pro or any other computer you wish to use, then download that to any other portable Apple device.
All this is to say that Blockbuster has a plan. What seems to be the last plan they have before closing up shop. They announced yesterday that they intend on purchasing Circuit City, which is the equivalent to the retail consumer electronics market as Blockbuster is to the retail movie rental market. It seems that two wrongs are going to try and make a right, we will see how it turns out. It seems that all of this is to model Apple’s retail strategy, which most people thought would fail in the first two years. We now know that not only has it not failed, but it makes most other retail stores look like children in the market.
Circuit City doesn’t seem too pumped about the offer either. It appears that they don’t really believe that Blockbuster can afford to buy them for the value of $950 million to $1.3 billion. Needless to say there is much skepticism about this whole deal. Personally, it seems like one failing business trying to buy another it can’t afford wouldn’t really make all that much sense. Besides that, doesn’t Blockbuster already have a retail store, why would they need a larger one… Oh well, I will just stick to the iPod repair and Apple portables repair market for now.
For those of you that love to read what I have to say, I apologize for missing my blog entry yesterday. When you get 1,000,000,000 iPhones a day to repair, it sure makes it hard to do anything else. So as to not steal Mike’s glory of the Tuesday blog, I will keep it short.I now have a MacBook Pro and consider myself a “Big Boy”. Not that my Macbook didn’t serve its purpose, but I always felt like I was wearing pull-ups when I was using it. I run many Pro Apps at one time and deal with huge RAW image files daily, and the measly 2.16 GHZ processor wasn’t cutting it! So anyways, that’s my story and I hope everyone has a good week.P.S. Here is my random picture of the week; I never knew that when you get shocked you can see your bones through your skin!
Greetings. I’m don’t feel much like harping on about MacBooks, iPods and iPhones, so here’s a brief story that has absolutely nothing to do with Apple:
The first bus I ever rode in Scotland was piloted by an aged and weathered local with impressive sideburns and a particularly red nose. He spent the extent of our journey talking to himself in a low sort of buzz of a murmur, all without moving his mouth. I tried to decipher the words that slipped obsequiously from between his lips as his eyes stared absently into the sloppy gray rain, but could do nothing to understand what he was saying nor how he was saying it with such masterful effortlessness. When I got off the bus, I realized that the voice I heard did not belong to the driver at all, but rather was provided by a tiny wide-eyed man curled up in the small space between the driver’s seat and the window. I’m pretty sure he was reading Canterbury Tales.
