this is why america will fall

From: Matthew Thompson 06/25/2010 01:17 PM
To: (redacted)
CC: (redacted), (redacted)
Subject: Re: Press check timing for Affinities and Sourcebook- Baraboo

hi (redacted),
my itinerary is below and i’ve booked a room at (redacted) in baraboo, could you let me know how to get to the plant from there? my cell number is 555.555.5555, let me know if you need anything else.
thanks!
matt

(itinerary redacted)

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From: (redacted)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:19:43 -0700
To: Matthew Thompson
Subject: Re: Press check timing for Affinities and Sourcebook- Baraboo

Thanks Matt. Can you send me your cell phone number. We will use this to keep you updated during your visit.

my question remains unanswered and they request information already provided: a perfect business email.

the north face 404 page is so metal

hate AT&T?

...you're not alone. that a company that large, when gifted with the best-selling mobile phone in history by their competition, can turn around and completely fail to support it and then continually commit customer-service suicide is unfathomable.

this techcrunch post hits every point of frustration for iphone owners (and, thanks to the halo effect, every other smartphone owner on their network) perfectly. i can attest to their many failures as there is a one-block dead zone outside my office in san francisco and i just did a complete restore on stephanie's iphone because she was only receiving texts and voicemails intermittently. it would have been nice if at&t had sent out some sort of notification that, in fact, their VM system was crapping out. no, wait... it would have been the MINIMUM LEVEL OF SERVICE EXPECTED. read the post, compare it to your own experience on AT&T and seriously consider this:

The iPhone will eventually be on Verizon, on Apple’s terms. It’s just a question of when.

If that’s by the end of next year, many of us will be happy campers. I don’t care what I have to pay to break an AT&T contract, I will do so in a heartbeat.

amen.

fail

UPDATE: in fairness to apple and at&t, i think i can pin the failed-sync blame squarely on nikeplus.com, as they are in the middle of rolling out an updated website and service. the feature set is more compelling and the design is far better, so i'll take a couple lost miles in the name of progress.

UPDATE 2: well, it appears apple and nike may be culpable after all. my latest (and longest with the 3GS) run just failed to upload to nikeplus.com AND THEN somehow managed to disappear out of the history list on my iphone... of course, angry emails have been sent and snarky forum posts have been made, but they need to fix this fast. why on earth can't a device as advanced as the latest iphone pull off a feat that is constantly accomplished by my three-year-old ipod nano? and if i'm FORCED to pay for UNLIMITED DATA by at&t, why can't i upload my run history directly from the phone? ridiculous...

how to be a jerk:

just as someone in the office announces that they are going outside to feed the meter to avoid a parking ticket, delay them with a long-winded and wholly unnecessary story about how you thought you were going to be ticketed earlier that morning but were lucky enough to arrive just ahead of the parking enforcer, thereby insuring that the other party will, in fact, be ticketed.

flim flam

all praise for "bike hero" is hereby RESCINDED.

creepy

matt: hey joel, shouldn't



be a cross or something?

joel: *wipes tears* aw, heck no, matt! *sniff* how would all the followers find Jesus if they couldn't find me first? *huge, tear-streaked, toothy grin*

failPhone

i love my iphone to pieces, but man this MobileMe thing just isn't working out. first i had NOTHING AT ALL on my phone after "upgrading." that was resolved by restoring the phone later that night but then i had everything on the phone and NO CONTACTS AT ALL on MobileMe. just last night i finally got my mac at home to sync all my contacts up to MobileMe but, of course, this morning i had DUPLICATES OF ALL MY CONTACTS on the phone.

yeesh.

i figured out i could kill the dupes on the phone by editing something online (added "keep" to everyone's first name) but that meant going back through and deleting all those edits when i was done.

triple yeesh.

oh well, that's the price you pay for being the dumb jerk that wants to have neat stuff first - you basically pay to be their bug tester. the good news is, steve jobs still works for apple, so the beatings will continue until it works perfectly, down in the mythical lands of Cupertino. for now, though, i have to agree with these guys:


failmeismorelikeit.com

argument against rushing a job

i popped my new tube whilst putting my new tire on the rim...

EPIC FAIL.