iRedWolf

I am weak of will... I can barely function... Everywhere I turn the hype only sinks me deeper and deeper into this illness...

The geek is strong inside of me, and it has caught iPhone fever.  I will be marching down to the closest AT&T store today and buying one.

However, there are some moments of clarity.  Some planning was already done ahead of schedule before the announcement of the iPhone... I should be okay financially if I take this big hit.  Even then, I am a son of Maryland, and have the infamous Maryland Crabbiness bred into me -- it peeks through at the oddest of moments...  like now, as I peruse the SF Gate and see an obvious injustice.

Mr Jobs?  Steve?  It's the geeks here.  Please, can you do us a favor just this once?  Please make sure Steve Wozniak gets an iPhone for free, even if you have to refund his money for the phone itself.  Pleaaaaaase?

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Taking the 8 to Towson Town Center (closest Apple store) was a bust, as it landed me without a phone and an hour late getting back to work.  I'm staying late tonight.

Which is a good thing, actually, because there's some issues that have to be delt with beforehand:

First, AT&T's backlogged heavily on activation requests, usually from people wanting to move to AT&T from other providers.  They didn't expect this much demand.  (Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, now estimates that half a million iPhones sold.)

Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router.  Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.

I want an iPhone, but I'll have to get a Mac first.  I can't do that until Anthrocon is over, and I will also need a LCD display for it too -- the monitor I have on the old rig is fuzzing out, so much that I perfer to VNC to the Linux rig's LCD.