Pronounced Eye-Pee-hOn
So I’ve been wanting to talk about the iPhone for weeks - both its ups and downs & why I’ll be getting one ASAP!! and what tradeoffs I’m willing to live with. But I can’t because, as an Apple employee, I can only talk about stuff that has been made public. Luckily the reviews are starting to roll in & here are the tech industries biggest two columnists weighing in on the iPhone & they do a good job ’splaining it all……
Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal
David Pogue from the NY Times
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Does anyone use AT&T in SF? I’d love to know how you feel about coverage since I’m switching from Verizon (Verizon - how I loathe thee for crippling my phones - though I’m a slave to your coverage area!)
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Ok - here is one more - Steven Levy from Newsweek - he captures the feel of it (& it is funnier!)
NOTE: Please email me any good pics you have! Also I’ve just realized that there is no photographic evidence to suggest I actually dance at my own FlashDances 
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Gretchen works it out
Yep. That did it. FlashDance 7 was THE way to get me fully back into my life. I sooooo love you guys. That was just AWESOME. Even though it could compete with FD3 for beauty, it was my FAVORITE FlashDance so far - it was just so wacky and surprising:
Allegra’s amazing synchronized group line dances (we’re soooo learning one for next FlashDance! Think Jackson 5!)
The bizarre turn of events when the cops dashed through the crowd to tackle the wallet-thief (yay cops!)
Archana’s great one-woman reproduction of the Saalam-E-Ishq Bollywood dance number (Did I swoon? I think I may have swooned?… In a very manly way of course )
lots of cute kids!
The only thing missing was something stage-like for me to dance on (yes I have a problem) & ok - I think I need to get YET a bigger sound system! I JUST bought the last one - sigh.
Here are some pix from Flickr courtesy of Romel! (click on the pix for more):
Read on to get the playlist & more thoughts… Click HERE for more…
This is a live Google Map so click & scroll away! (Created with My Maps Plus)
NOTE: This is my final post about my month of traveling - if you want to skip the chatter & JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE PIX, CLICK HERE - there is a SMALL set of PIX & a COMPLETE set of pix.
Also, if you want to see all my travel posts to this point click HERE.
As many of you know I just got back from almost a month in the Olde Country - India. It was a big and fascinating trip - and there was a lot I liked about it & honestly some big things I *really* didn’t like about it. There was both much fun and much not fun. Some of that had to do with India & some of that had to do with the fact that I was LARGELY BY MYSELF FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH. If you ever want to drive a hyper-gregarious, hyper-talkative person suicidal, send them to a large, fascinating & difficult country by themselves in the non-tourist season FOR A MONTH. Sit back & watch the fun! Anyway, it has been a week since I got back & now that my super-powers are returning, it is time to write up my impressions…
Before I get into what I liked & disliked about India it is important to understand that the key part of any trip is having resilience, curiosity and a good attitude. Normally these qualities are a strong suit of mine. But this trip, “curiosity” was the only one I could consistently muster. A variety of things combined to cause the others to come & go. As I said, the biggest factor by far was that I only had people to really talk to for maybe 4-5 days combined out of my 3.5 weeks in India: NOT GOOD FOR OUR HERO.* So I guess that means maybe if the circumstances of my trip were different my impressions would skew differently…
But that all being said, what follows are my impressions of India such as they are, for better & for worse. Here is the quick list for those of you skimming - feel free to click on just the items that seem interesting. (damn this is a long post! Did I mention I had no one to talk to for a month?)
Things I liked:
Things I did NOT like:
I should also state up front that I’m more curious and more demanding of India than I would be of many other places for a variety reasons. Obviously, being my genetic homeland, I’m going to be pretty curious, but also there are many people in my life (my immediate family for starters, but others as well) who expect that I SHOULD have a strong connection to India: “India is your home!” or “You just don’t understand that you ARE Indian” etc etc. This all leads to a closer scrutiny on my part.
Anyway, without further ado, lets get to the superficial impressions that I will attempt to pass off as facts. (hey look! “hubris” - I AM returning to normal!)
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