Weekend plans
January 19, 2008
I’ve come very close to buying an iPhone lately. The idea of having not only a new phone that has full Internet connectivity (and if you’ve tried browsing the web on a “regular” cell phone, you know what “full” means) is very appealing, but with easy access to my email and calendar it pretty much seals the deal. I see several problems with my owning an iPhone, though.
1) It only has 8 GB of storage. I know, I know, 8 GB should be enough, but with my 32 GB of music and my new penchant for tossing movies I can listen to on my 80 GB iPod, I don’t think it will be enough. Sure, I could probably pare down my music to a more manageable level, but if I’m going to have a device that supposedly offers me everything in my pocket, I’d like to have everything in my pocket and not be leaving stuff out.
2) I can’t get my work email on it. Well, I could get my work email, but I’d have to tweak the email server at work, and I don’t really want to do that just so I could get email on my iPhone.
3) There’s no easy way to sync my calendar to it. The iPhone lets you sync with iCal on the Mac and Outlook on Windows, but I don’t use either of those–I use Google Calendar, which is set up to sync to iCal on my MacBook and into the calendar program integrated into my email client on my PC. I’d not only have to get Outlook, but I’d have to use software to sync Google Calendar to Outlook and then sync to my iPhone.
The other things that are missing on the iPhone–video recording, copy and paste, MMS video messaging, 3G data speed–I don’t really care about. They’re not deal-breakers, that is. I’d like to have each of them, but I could live without them.
So if and when Apple releases an iPhone with additional storage, full Exchange compatibility, and the ability to sync with Google Calendar, I’ll plunk down my money that very day.
Or as my sister put it, “Doot doot doot doot doot Inspector Gadget, doot doot doot doot doot doot doot.” I’m betting I’ll see a 16 GB iPhone in August, and with Apple allowing 3rd parties to write and release iPhone software starting in February, the other two things may change before then, as well.
Last night had potential to be a lot of fun, but instead it was just fun. The original plan was to meet up with two former coworkers and Hanne at Bailey’s Taproom to have a couple of beers, then have dinner, then head to the club Holocene for a benefit organized by Lewis & Clark Law School. Instead, one of my friends canceled on me so I sat alone in Bailey’s reading past issues of Bon Appetit waiting for Hanne and my other friend, then Hanne and I ate Mexican food for dinner, and I wasn’t feeling well (from the food, not from the supply of alcohol in me) so I just went to bed. Eh, all’s well that ends well.
Tonight Hanne and I are making a fabulous dinner, originally meant as a way to use up the rest of a copious amount of basil purchased last weekend, but since the basil died at some point during the week, we’re now just making a fabulous dinner for the hell of it. On the menu are lamb burgers mixed with Greek-style pesto (made with basil, olive oil, garlic, lemon, feta cheese, and olive puree), topped with roasted onion and a grilled bun lightly coated with a garlic oil, oven-baked fries tossed with oil, garlic, and rosemary, and a nice bottle of non-Greek wine. Without meaning offense to Greek vineyards, they’re not exactly on the top of my wine list, so instead we’ll have something preferably local. It’s going to be a great dinner. I’m thinking that since we’re in such a foodie mood, we should watch the best foodie movie to come out in the last couple of years that I just so happen to have sitting in a red NetFlix envelope in my apartment: Ratatouille. Handy.
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