I got angie a new razr phone and as she was reading the manual tonight. We came across this and it just about fell out of my chair…
(/)Microwave: Don’t try to dry your phone in a microwave oven.
You know some idiot tried this once and I am sure tried to do it and blew up their microwave and tried to sue the phone company. Now if this person actually died while doing it, they might deserve a Darwin award!
As some of you know we just got back from the National Garden Railway Conference in Las Vegas. I can’t believe how hot it was! On Friday it topped 112 degrees! Each day we started out at 7:30 on the bus and toured between five and six layouts each day. We arrived back at the hotel and attended several clinics and seminars.
I found the following topics of interest:
How to use drip irrigation.
Installing electrical in your garden railway.
Walt Disney’s Railroad Story
There was also a vendor show. I have about four hundred photos of all the railroads we visited. Most of them are for me to get ideas on what to do with my own railroad. I have uploaded only 6 of them as they are 2.5 megs each. (sorry I am not dial-up friendly).
I ended up buying a new Disney passenger car, some more rail clamp, two artificial sounds boxes and a pinner gun. I now have to find myself a compressor. But once I do, I will be hammering (no pun intended) out lots of trellises in no time.
The coolest part of the entire conference was the talk by Michael Broggie. He talked about the history of Walt Disney and his railroad. How his fascination with small scale trains turned into a very large dream that turned into Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
OK, while trying to find out information about the iPhone launch, I ran across this article on yahoo:
The first paragraph isn’t even a complete sentence. I don’t see who reported this number and later in the article they claim cnet.com estimates their number. Zero fact in this article and it’s so vague that you have no way to verify where the numbers came from.
Yahoo! where the heck do you get the people who takes these Reuters feeds and re-write them?
In response to some of my friends who think I am anti-iphone 😉
Oy! I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but the problems I see with it is the data network choice (but will withhold my judgement until I can play with one on edge and see if it’s fast enough or not) and the total lack of knowledge of the people selling the phone. (someone that has one, let’s talk 😉
I stopped into both an apple store and AT&T store and had bad experiences… Will that stop me from getting one? Probably not. Mario knows me better than that… it’s the performance of the data network that will sway me one way or another. It’s one of the reasons I refused to buy a Treo when everyone on the block was raving about them.
Lots of people think I am negative because of the company I work for. But come on guys! Remember I bought a GSM phone that only supported 9600 baud as well as a wireless attachment for my palm that did 19,200 baud? I needed it for specific reasons and not for all the wiz-bang features everyone else did.
For those of you that remember: I got the Nokia 9000il because I could send/receive faxes from it and it had a telnet/ssh client available. This was critical for me as I was consulting at the time and needed to fix a system problem from anywhere in the world. BTW, I think I was the only person in california that actually had the phone activated properly. Helps that you have a relative that sells them 😉
Anyway, I am just sitting waiting for more sources of information to come in. BTW, I am really curious why neither Apple or AT&T are willing to discuss how many units have been sold or how many have been activated? What’s to hide guys?
I see a new video of dissection has been posted, so i will check that out and see if that helps answers some of my questions.
