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Gee. Glad I paid for Super Duper OMG Fast shipping.
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AT&T = Whizbang Fizzledanggers (Updated)

(Lexy, that title was for you)

I can has iPhone? No.

Mike, in case you were wondering where I was this morning (I don't have your cell # saved for some reason, only home #), I got up at 4AM this morning and hopped online before I was going to get ready to go, and read on macrumors.com that good ole' AT&Taint aren't allowing current customers to get the iPhone today unless they qualify for the standard upgrade pricing.
Since I will have to pay the early upgrade price, I'm pretty for sure they don't want my business today. I'm sitting here right now (it's 5:30) trying to get confirmation of this, but several people have all said the same thing.

Thanks AT&T! It's not like I've been a customer for over 6 years and paid you thousands of dollars or anything. You go get those new customers. Go get 'em!

Update:
So, it turns out, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet. While it turns out a lot of AT&T's were treating existing customers like cock monsters this morning, just as many were playing fair including the one here in Jefferson City. Unfortunately, they sold out of iPhone within an hour, as did most stores from what I hear. Talk about being unprepared (Or was the iPhone a bigger hit than anticipated?) Anyway, I signed up for the lame-ass direct fulfillment, which means one will be shipped to the AT&T store for me to pick up within a few days, and I even had to pay shipping. Balls, that sucks. At least I'm guaranteed one though.

Barack and Hillary, Sitting in a Tree...

Ok. so I know that Barack and Hillary want to convey a sense of Unity, hence their campaigning together in Unity, N.H. today, but I think the image above, chosen as abcnews.com's headline photo almost looks like they're about to get a little too united. Anyone else agree?

I dunno. senator on senator action just doesn't do much for me.

Funny

So I was looking at treadmills/ellipticals/stationary bikes today online and I came across one that looked strikingly familiar. Anyone else see the resemblance?

On an unrelated note, you should go download the Spore Creature Creator.
Spore is a game thats been in production since forever ago and will be released this September, save for any additional delays. (There have been many thus far)
Creature creator lets you build animals, which you'll be able to use in the game once the full fledged version comes out. The creator is one of the most intelligent and intuitive programs I think I've ever used. The sheer level of customization is amazing. Spore allows you to grow a life form from single-cell all the way to advanced inter-stellar species, and is the brain child of Sim City and The Sims creator Will Wright, so this game is destined to be a mega hit.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One...

Okay.

So, a Rabbi and a Priest walk into a, er AT&T store. The Rabbi, we'll call him Schmuel purchased a new cell phone just 8 months ago, but really fricking wants a new iPhone 3G, the iPhone data plan, the whole schmear.

How much is the Rabbi going to have to pay to get his chachka? Will it turn out to be more of an expensive toy if AT&T acts like a ganef?

I don't know the punch line, because apparently neither does AT&T. If you believe that I've got some unicorn farts to sell you.

Here is a list of the most likely price points for the new iPhone:

Come On AT&T. The cat's out of the bag already! Give us the frickin' deets!

I really want to know if the cost of getting an iPhone will be unacceptably high, or if it will be reasonable, but it seems no one at AT&T has a straight answer, though I've read several reports of reps saying about 5 different things. All this ambiguity about the finer details about the iPhone is leading to a lot of speculation and rumors.

Oh, and the Priest was eligible for a standard upgrade so he didn't have to worry about a thing.