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David Carradine, Ed McMahon, and the King of Pop, Michael Jackson… What can I say, we lost a lot of good people in the last week or so.

With all Jacksons legal woes aside, he created some of the most amazing moments in music and music videos… Moments that won’t soon be forgotten. From ‘Wanna be Startin’ Somethin’ to ‘Thriller’ to ‘Bad’ to ‘Man in the Mirror’… they’re songs that get stuck in your head for days and days.

As “non-traditional” as he was, you gotta admire the stamp he put on the music industry.

This guy was as entertaining of a person as one could be. He made MILLIONS of people tune in and watch some of the most obscure infomercials simply based on his pizzaz, and ability to pitch a product.

I, like a lot of people, loved watching his show “Pitchmen”. I’m not looking forward to the season finale tonight at 10pm on Discovery, solely because I know it’s the last we’ll see of him. He was a cool dude, who people young and old adored. He’s the greatest pitchman of all time.
Rest in Peace, Billy Mays.

So, I’m back to the iPhone 3g S. They put out a product that I just couldn’t resist.

I’m in love, once again, with what I drive. Good times.

Seems like forever since I’ve updated. Well, it has been. I’ve been kinda busy with life, and haven’t really had a lot of extra time, but, I’m gonna do my best to start blogging again.

Kinda sucks that I can’t wait to be done posting this, so I can go take care of a few things.

Zoe is super tender. She’s fighting Strep Phroat (sound it out), and has a temp of 103.5. Yikes. But, she’s being a trooper and hangin’ in there. She’s on antibiotics along with rotating Tylenol and Motrin.

Bahia just got home from the gym… She’s been good. Busy with school and all the things that keep a mother busy.

That’s us in a nutshell right now. Be back later…

-Chris

Ok, as it turns out, the iPhone is NOT the greatest phone ever, for me. Could I have eventually dealt with the fact that I type about as fast as a 3 year old… Probably. Could I have eventually gotten over the fact that I have fat-thumb disease… Maybe. But the one thing I just can NOT sacrifice is the so-sub-par its too sub-par to be sub-par battery life. It is absolutely pathetic, and very unlike Apple. I will say this though, that phone/company/community sure do make some tight apps. Only problem being, after downloading them, I’m going to want to play with them, and the battery won’t last that long. Boo…

That being said, I went a back to AT&T and got myself they new Blackberry Bold. I gotta tell ya, for everything that mattered to me, the Blackberry wins hands down. One of the biggest downfalls for me was, the virtual keyboard. Although Apple did a nice job, almost perfect job, with auto-correct, its just not good enough. If you don’t have thumbs the size of an 8 year olds pinkies, you will make mistakes… Lots of them. With the BB’s QWERTY keyboard, I’m back to speed texting/emailing once again.

For me, when it comes to the calendar, notes/tasks, camera/video recorder (which Apple doesn’t have), and a few other things like that, the Blackberry is superior. When it comes to those things, simplicity, speed, and ease are what you need. It shouldn’t take night classes at the local community college to remember to go to the dentist next Thursday. For me, that’s what it took. Now, in all fairness, it could very-well be part fat-thumb disease, and part brain being pre-trained for Blackberry so I’m looking for things in the wrong places, etc, but I could just never get a grasp on the whole, touchy touchy thing. I will miss those apps though. I mean, c’mon… How cool is UrbanSpoon and Loopt and Shazam… Just to name a few. I had fun playing with Zippo Lighter® as much as the next guy, but I just couldn’t get past the fundamentals of the phone lacking so much.

I’ve moved on, and couldn’t be happier. The Bold is quite an upgrade from it’s predecessor. They still could do some upgrading in certain areas, but to finally get to REAL HTML mail is heavenly.

I don’t know, I think I’m just weird and am asking for too much out of my cell phone, but hey, they make ‘em, I just use ‘em.

I’m sure there are more Blackberry Bold ramblings to come. Stay tuned.

And yes, the back of the phone is black leather. It’s cool as hell and feels wonderful in your hand.

Just wanted to give props to Peter’s photo skillz. If you go to LINK>Peter’s Site you’ll see that he’s changed his banner picture from San Francisco to a SWEET photo-stitched picture of the Detroit skyline from the Ren Cen all the way to the Ambassador Bridge. It’s truly an awesome photo. Just wanted to give Pete props on a super tight photo.

It looks like one of those photos that you see in the mall, of your city’s skyline or nightlife. Totally professional. Nice job, dude. See the full sized photo on his sites banner, or on LINK>Peter’s Flickr Page

I have my fingers crossed, I’m saying my prayers and eating my vitamins, like Hulk Hogan said, but I’m not sure it’ll all be enough to have McCain/Palin pull out this election. I hope they do better than my pessimistic attitude thinks they’ll do.

The Rouvalis’ <3 McCain/Palin

IF by chance Obama happens to squeek by on this election, I blame the media. =)

Good luck, John and Sarah! Whether “we” win or lose, you had my vote. I’m sorry so many people were able to be snowballed. It’s amazing what a billion dollars in advertising can do to a persons ability to think clearly.

Stay strong!