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Comment on iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store by Allan

Allan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:06:35 +0000

By the way, your comment is a nice well written vignette into your day! Thanks for sharing ! Enjoy!

Comment on iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store by Allan

Allan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:06:01 +0000

Johnny A – You go out to by an iPhone and come home with a new Prius. All because you were so damn worried and losing sleep about your accelerator getting stuck while fiddling with your new iPhone. Congratulations. You are on a roll of vehicle purchases these days.

AT&T did announce days before that iPhones would not be available until the 29th, but their PR wasn’t good enough to stop you. But those eggs and pig musta been delish in the wee hours of an Eureka morning…

Now. Go get your phone!

Comment on iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store by Johnny A

Johnny A — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:47:19 +0000

Well Allan, my iOS 4 experience yesterday was quite different than yours in Carlsbad. On Wednesday night, I set my iPhone 3G Alarm Clock for 3:35AM to be up and ready to collect my friend Anthony and drive the hour north from Redway to Eureka to our closest AT&T store. We wanted to be some of the first on line to get our respective iPhone 4s.

Just prior to our arrival into Eureka, I waged a little bet with Anthony that if we were the first one’s there, I would buy breakfast and if there was anyone else waiting ahead of us, he would buy breakfast. We both agreed and soon thereafter, anxiously arrived to find that we were the first customers to come on the Humboldt iPhone 4 scene this June 24th. The parking lot was empty and dark with not a homeless person in sight. Unfortunately, we soon discovered a small sign on the door that read, “We will be receiving our first shipment of iPhone 4′s on June 29″.

A dark cloud of disappointment and disgust filled my Toyota’s cabin. We both looked at each other with despair and almost simultaneously uttered, “…I got out of bed at 3:30AM for THIS?” Both feeling like we’d been kicked in the gut by both Apple and AT&T (mostly by AT&T) we pondered briefly the idea of turning around and driving south to the Santa Rosa Apple Store (3-1/2 hours) to hopefully attain our new phones there.

After serious consideration and wandering around the desolate, dank city of Eureka in the wee hours, Anthony suggested we search for a cafe to drown our sorrows in some chicken embryos, tubers and pig fat (a “proper” breakfast) OH! and of course a cup of bean juice to nudge our brains into high gear so we could figure out what to do next. Arrrrrrrgh!

I had previously arranged a 7:30AM appointment with Mid-City Motorworld Toyota dealership in Eureka to have the accelerator pedal recall work completed on my 2004 Prius for this same day. Something I’d been putting off since I received the letter from Toyota back in March, simply because after driving 80,000 miles in that car, never having experienced any problems, deemed it hogwash and unnecessary. I’d been praising the Prius to anyone who’d listen, since I purchased it new back in ’04.

So after a leisurely breakfast at the Golden Harvest Cafe in Arcata, we drove over to the Toyota dealership to take care of the recall issue. A young Hispanic man washing cars on the lot, yelled to us, “… they don’t open until 7:30.” So we proceeded to check out the rides both new and used lined up for sale on Mid-City’s car lot while we waited for the service department to open.

Well maybe it was due to my disappointment with the iPhone 4 incident now hours behind us, or perhaps it was due to my appreciation for Toyota’s incredible hybrid technology and resilience as a company to stay afloat in the wake of all the bad publicity this past winter. Maybe it was the Sandy Beach color or improved, sleek design and upgrade in performance of the new 2010 Toyota Prius, but after serious consideration and hard core negotiation with Doug Small the salesman, Anthony and I found ourselves, as if it were all a dream, driving home to Redway in a slick new 2010 Toyota Prius.

So while I don’t have my iPhone 4, next Tuesday I will activate the saved 3:35AM alarm in my iPhone 3G, and take that hour ride to Eureka, this time in my new Prius to trade in the old phone and hopefully come home with the new iPhone 4.

Have fun with your new phone today, and I’ll have fun with my new Prius!

Comment on iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store by Allan

Allan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:27:24 +0000

I think there might be some validity to that. But I was ready. And yes, I wanted that phone!

Comment on iOS4 | iPhone 4 | Release Day Apple Store by Ray Sanford

Ray Sanford — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:37:24 +0000

Methinks it was a Freudian slip. Or perhaps a Freudian spin cycle.

Go on, admit it. You really, really wanted one of these.

Comment on Riding That Train, Italian Wine & Late Night Jazz: The Streets of LA by Allan

Allan — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:50:07 +0000

@Rex Gelert — yes. I think a blue whale run, music, photography and other fun in LA is an order. Let’s get it on the docket!

Comment on Riding That Train, Italian Wine & Late Night Jazz: The Streets of LA by Rex gelert

Rex gelert — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:13:35 +0000

Allan, you and I need to do a blue whale run, sounds like my kind of place, love it.
You’re such the writer, good post man.

Comment on The Old Trick Bag. The Plastic Version. by Allan

Allan — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:15:51 +0000

@Jim Branch — yes those natural hand warmer poly bags can by handy in the morning chill of a February California morning. I new approach to organic recycling, I’m thinking!

Comment on Riding That Train, Italian Wine & Late Night Jazz: The Streets of LA by Allan

Allan — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:08:24 +0000

@ Ken Hauck — yeah. what a night. I used a DSLR from Canon to take the shots inside Blue Whale and Union Station and the outdoor shots. It’s a 20D and with a 17-85mm EF-S — though I really wish I had a 5D or even 7D that night.

@ Shadman — quite an adventure indeed – not planned, but turned out okay!

Comment on The Old Trick Bag. The Plastic Version. by Jim Branch

Jim Branch — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:31:33 +0000

Yes the bags are a land fill deposit that should not be there, I would like to see a better bio degradable alternative. However, I have found that the multi-purpose usage of a hande poop bag for the pups is a better solution than buyint those perfumed bags made for the specific purpose. Plus on cold winter mornings the semi-full bags make for a nice hand warmer.

Comment on Riding That Train, Italian Wine & Late Night Jazz: The Streets of LA by shadman

shadman — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:30:45 +0000

Hey, what an adventure.

Comment on Riding That Train, Italian Wine & Late Night Jazz: The Streets of LA by Ken Hauck

Ken Hauck — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:25:19 +0000

Those low light pics from LA are nice, what camera did you have with you?

Comment on How Does Apple Grab So Much Attention? Always. by Allan Karl

Allan Karl — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:30:37 +0000

Jason – Well. I don’t think this truly is Apple marketing. Though, I do believe they like to be in control and may have used controlled leaks to the press in the past to generate a bit of press. But this is getting sticky as you duly noted. Now it’s going to get interesting. And eyes will be on Apple and Gizmodo will do it’s best to splash this around like a good tabloid should!

Comment on How Does Apple Grab So Much Attention? Always. by Jason

Jason — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:12:37 +0000

And then, of course, this happens…
http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize-jason-chens-computers

If this is Apple’s idea of marketing, I’m not sure I’d want to buy their products. Granted, it does put them in the spotlight, though.

Comment on The Old Trick Bag. The Plastic Version. by Dude

Dude — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:59:33 +0000

Yeah. It’s amazing. But I wonder about enforcement. Though there are many coutnries and US cities as noted that have started the process to ban the bag. The plastics and petroleum industry is throwing heavy money and stuffing the net with propoganda.

http://cei.org/articles/whole-truth-about-plastic-bags
http://www.thetruthaboutplasticbags.com/
http://savetheplasticbag.com/

http://news.santacruz.com/2009/09/06/coastal_cities_move_cautiously_on_bag_ban

Then there are the good….
http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=4

though both sides seems to be confused on messaging, Johnny A, just look at the mess these bags make and how many people just toss them into the trash when they come home from the store with a dozen bags – perhaps for the average family grocery shopping trip. It’s waste and ugly. That alone should be enough for these folks to get beyond the politics and see the future.

Comment on The Old Trick Bag. The Plastic Version. by Johnny A

Johnny A — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:34:30 +0000

Allan… for once, I agree with the Chinese. I would rather fill my pockets and carry stuff out to the car or home one by one than accept a plastic bag from a merchant. They should be illegal worldwide.

Comment on How Does Apple Grab So Much Attention? Always. by Allan

Allan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:47:48 +0000

Hey. you know. Gotta always be in shape. You never know when WorldRiding or other journeys call!

Comment on How Does Apple Grab So Much Attention? Always. by QMan

QMan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:32:20 +0000

Dude, Allan Karl pumping iron? I may have to make a special trip to SoCal to witness that extravaganza. Drop down and give me 20!

Comment on Indian Food & Genocide, An Unlikely Mix. by Kim Bracko

Kim Bracko — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:55:02 +0000

You have a new fan! I love your stuff here and will be back again.

Comment on Baja California. History. Water. Endangered. And Great Photography. by Allan

Allan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:40:24 +0000

Mike – So good to see you’re following the Tavern, here. Yeah. It’s well worth checking out that exhibit. And on the third floor of that museum is another photo exhibit of Aerial Photography from the late 50′s and early sixties of California, the west and even Alaska. There’s some amazing black and white photos. And the Baja exhibit is simply stunning.

Schedule? I’m working hard on speaking and writing. But that’s all good! You’re in Oceanside, eh? What are you doing down there? Loreto is beautiful, as you know… road trips to Baja for photography are great. Let’s connect!

Comment on Baja California. History. Water. Endangered. And Great Photography. by Mike Flores

Mike Flores — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:55:19 +0000

Allan, Thanks for posting this. Now that I’m living down in Oceanside, I’ll have to take a trip down to Balboa park and check out that photo exhibit. I’m planning a trip down to Baja sometime within the next few months, to do some nature timelapse photography… thinking I’m going to go at least as far south as Loreto. What’s your schedule like these days?