Gadget Fever

The hacker inside me loves finding the other iPhone hacker articles---

here's one from the unofficial apple weblog, sponsored by Best Buy (heh heh) with lots of comments and tweaking ideas that I found entertaining, although these guys are mostly trying to avoid the AT&T glitch. Imagine the courage involved in actually prying apart your newly purchased $600, perfectly operating as-is iPhone, and taking it apart. Where angels fear to tread, in my opinion.
I'm going to find an Altoids box and make up a mock iPhone, an Ahrt project, so to speak, just for fun. Somehow, about 1997, I got bitten by the gadget fever tick, novus computerus inadequatus, it is incurable, and I'm not even close to being in recovery. Forget the iPhone, have you seen the coolest new laptops under $600 lately? 17" screens, gamer graphics capabilities, Windows Vista Home Premium, 250GB, 2GB RAM, a zillion extras, and under 5 lbs? My 2002 Sony is looking very matronly and slow lane only these days. sigh Maybe next year...

My newly upgraded home built desktop is humming along at light speed, and I am very very satisfied with it, and glad I did all the upgrades while I was still employed. Its cool blue case lights will console me until the new laptop is welcomed into the gadget family. The cell phone is also blue, as is the street bike I picked up yesterday, my sewing machine, my Kitchen-Aid mixer, all vivid deep blues. Gadget Fever. "I gotta fever, babies, I gotta have more cowbell," it's like that for me, "explore the space with it." Thought about a heavy-duty blender for making paper, they were on sale, in cobalt blue---but I stopped myself, and realized I could do it in the Kitchen-Aid cobalt blue mixer. That was a close one.
My kingdom for a sleek new printer...