Gphone, Fantasy Sports, More Dallas

CHAPTER 1

Since I’m locked into T-Mobile for awhile and thus can’t partake in the iPhone experience, I’ve been waiting for this Gphone, in the hopes it can be my temporary salvation.

After seeing it…I’m not interested. I hate those slide-open keyboards.

Note here that I currently am a user of the Blackberry Curve, as seen to your right. It’s more important to me than any other possession I have, including my complete memory of who I am.

You see, I’ve uploaded my massive biography to the device, so in the case I’m forced to choose between my Blackberry and my memory, I can freely give my memory away to whoever the buyer or attacker may be.

After the transaction or attack, all I have to do is the following:

1) Look in mirror, wonder who I am.
2) Pick up the Blackberry.
3) Say, “Is this…is it mine…? My god…what’s happened…I don’t remember anything…”
4) Turn it on.
5) Start searching, and find document with my picture that begins, “This is you. Read all about yourself and then call your Mom at [Mom's phone # redacted].”

Anyway, a good piece of news about the device – it’s not the only one.

Now, one thing T-Mobile didn’t emphasize (and I don’t blame them) is that this isn’t the Gphone, it’s just the first of hundred to come from different handset vendors and different network operators. Yet probably many members of the general public today think this is the one and only GPhone, just like many folks in the early 1990s thought AOL was the Internet.

That said, I’ll still go running to AT&T in 18 months for an iPhone. I’m all Mac’d up, and would love to have everything talking to each other cleanly.

CHAPTER 2

I don’t much like to comment on sports for now, but ESPN’s Bill Simmons has made the claim that fantasy sports are “cool” now. I’ve either completely missed that bus, or he’s wrong.

I just don’t get fantasy sports – I’m not saying it’s like lame or anything, it’s just he talks about it like it’s mainstream; the new binge-drinking, ie everyone’s doing it.

I believe this is an untrue statement. Am I right or wrong?

CHAPTER 3

Anyway, I’m heading to Dallas early now, so I’m totally going to be there for all of October and November, which I’m pumped about.

I love going new places, especially if going to that place means I don’t have to be in Los Angeles for two entire months.

Here’s a list of things I’m going to do while I’m there, based on everything I know about Texas:

Ride horses everywhere, go to slaughterhouses, date cheerleaders, have lots of guns, shoot cans off of fences with cowboy buddies, eat chitlins, learn to spell sasparilla, do everything possible with sarsaparilla, get bitten by a rattlesnake, and have an old west shootout (preferably while on a horse).

Does anyone know if there’s a big cutting community down there, or do they like graze themselves with gunfire instead?