Posted by Don Quixote
0 commentsThese two clips are for my sister April, the poor woman has tried more times to take a simple trip to Las Vegas and I feel a little bad every time I get to go. So here is ring side video of when we went in September of the Bellagio Fountains. The rest of you can enjoy as well, but I’m really just posting them for her.
Filmed by Michelle “Steady Hand” Soulliere
Filmed by Bob “Twitch” Soulliere
Posted by Don QuixoteIn honor of this truely world wide holiday…
Posted by Don Quixote
Okay… its official. I totally *love* the iPhone.
For the first time ever, I’m now able to sync my work Outlook with my home iCal and they both show up on my iPhone. My personal and professional lives are now joined into one.
Second totally cool thing. Michelle and I dropped off Amber when we got back from the Airport and we were totally hungry. Michelle wanted pizza. Now normally in this situation, we’d have to go home and order and then pick it up, call Steph and ask her to look up the number so we can call, or I’d have to add the pizza joint to my phonebook (how lame is that?).
Oh, but not with the super cool iPhone. I type in pizza joint, and blamo, there’s a pin point on the map. I click it, there’s the number. I push the number and KATOW! I’m talking to the guy and ording the ‘za.
Life is good.
Posted by Don QuixoteI’m a total idiot.
Not a partial one, not an occasional one, but a total idiot.
I left my cell phone in the back of a cab in Las Vegas. How does one do that you might ask? Well apparently its easier than it looks on TV. Amber quested me again this morning on why I simply didn’t stick it my pocket or something else, instead of holding it in my hand, and honestly, I’ll never know. But some how between the time I set my stuff down to dig in my pocket to get $$ to pay the cab driver and the time I got to the rental car, I lost my cell.
To make matters worse, it was still set on ’silent’ because I was coming from Photoshop World.
After two straight hours of calling my phone in the hopes that someone would at least hear the buzzing, I had to face the fact that for the time being, it was gone. And that makes me sad. The crazy thing is that I was honestly only a week or so from buying a new one, but I wanted to dump all my information, cell numbers and photos off it before hand, and then pass it along to the boys to use.
Apparently the cosmos (i.e. God) had other plans.
So, off Michelle and I went (tears in my eyes) to the Apple store to buy a new phone (more tears). While the old has passed away, the new is pretty freaking awesome. I was able (through iTunes) to activate my phone and transfer my old number to it in less than 5 minutes (no joke, not using Bob time or anything fancy). To top things off, I am pretty sure that since I was already and AT&T customer (long live Cingular!), I didn’t have to sign a new agreement or anything.
Now I am in the process of setting up numbers and contacts and what have you (plus as you can see from the pics to the side of this in the MoBlog section, I’ve got the iPhone sending pictures to the blogs without any issues).
So if you were in my phone book, or would like to be in my new phone book, drop me an email with your number so I can add things back to they way they should be.
Tomorrow ends our 10 days in Vegas, so I will post a few pictures and give you a little idea of our adventures (or at least of my screw ups). So until then, stay cool (still 100+
degrees here), and I’ll see you online.
Posted by Don QuixoteWell with the announcement that the iPhone is now down to $399 it is now one paycheck away from reality.
It seems my life is becoming more and more Apple centric (though at this point I still refuse to buy an AppleTV, I mean, thats what the $20 mini-DVI to DVI cable is for. Granted, it does YouTube and a few other things, bu honestly, I have better things to spend the $300 bucks on…. like an iPhone for Michelle).
Speaking of my lovely wife, Michelle and I are hanging out in Las Vegas this week for Photoshop World with Mélaine and Amber and we’re having a great time. I’d tell you more about it, but you know the old mantra: What happens in Vegas, gets blogged about by Bob.
However, one of the things I can tell you about it is our multiple trips to the Apple store. We stopped by on Monday (man, was it crazy) and we sat through a demo on the new iLife ‘08. Man that was great stuff. Mélaine and I have been using our MacBooks the past few weeks as we pod & vodcasted for our EDU 205 / 505 class that we are team teaching and its been a breeze to get things done. iLife ‘08 takes all that to a whole new level and even gives us a few more options. So many options in fact, I actually broke down and paid for a .mac account to do a collaborative photo assignment we have in store for our students. Fun stuff.
So as a way of being lazy and getting the rest of our Chicago pictures out on time, here’s the 20 second gallery that iPhoto tossed together for me.
April and the rest of you who feel the need to take a gander, enjoy, compliments of Apple.
Until then.
Posts Feed