So my sister and niece are visiting, and in the process of doing the n.’s laundry, my s. managed to wash a pair of shorts containing n.’s iPhone 3GS. Entire wash cycle, with detergent, spin cycle, the works. In our new, big, front-loading LG machine, which is no slouch as far as destroying-things.

Pronounced dead on the scene, my dingbat niece said that one of her dingbat friends said if you stick it in a bag of rice for a few days, it will completely dry it out, and it may OK. So the naive little waif did just that, buried it completely in rice in a zip-lock bag.

And it worked. She just took it out of the bag, plugged it into the power cord, and it booted right up. It’s completely fine. What appear to be some light water stains on the screen if you look at it from the side, but they’re invisible straight-on. Calls fine, speaker and mic work fine, the whole thing is pretty much A-OK. This says two things:

1. Stick your wet electronics in a bag of rice for a couple of days, and who the hell knows, it might work?
2. The iPhone 3GS is a sturdy little thing.

It might say something about some vestigial intelligence in my niece, but I don’t really think so.

SCORE A FUCKING RUN. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. GODDAMN HIT A FUCKING BASEBALL, AND SOMEONE SCORE A RUN. FUCK.

Love,

H

Dear Apple Display Team Sacks of Shit,

I just bought a 24″ Apple Cinema Display on closeout, for my “early 2008″ Mac Pro. I would like to issue a hearty fuck you, to Apple in general, and you guys in particular, for your complete inability to find a display connection and stick with it for longer than a single generation. VESA, DVI, ADC, HDMI, Displayport, Mini Displayport… go fuck yourselves. I’ve got 94 adapters laying around, from purchased computers (not monitors), all of which connect different monitor types, while the single Apple display I’ve purchased in the past ten years comes with an entirely different connector AND NO ADAPTERS. These adapters I have, they come from damned recent machines, too, some of them. Why can’t I rely on you fuckers?

My Mac Pro is still under Applecare, and is apparently at least two generations old, as far as connectors go. Why is DVI insufficient? Why is it that my top-of-the-line ATI card on my Windows box still uses it, and does just fine? Why does it thrive for all LCD monitors, and all video cards everywhere, to this day?

Because different display connections don’t give any noticeable benefit. Yet you keep changing them. Fuck you guys, you annoying sacks.

Love,

H

Yep, Starcraft 2 is out. Mac users many not know, because the decade-old Starcraft 1 is still available in Apple Stores as if it’s a current thing… but anyway, I was amused to discover that it takes like an hour for SC2 to install on Windows, but like five minutes for OSX. Way to go, registryless OSX.

(via reddit) Best robots.txt EVAR.

Traded in my old first version 60GB PS3 tonight at Gamestop for a new 250GB Slim. Gamestop has a $200 trade-in deal going on right now, so that made it definitely cheap enough to upgrade. They were thrilled to get a first-version machine, with the PS2 hardware compatibility, and I’m thrilled to have a machine that is silent while watching movies. Doesn’t appear to get blazing hot, either, and is supposed to use much less electricity.

The $200 deal goes away in a week or so, if you have a big PS3. I’m glad I traded: we can have the volume on a movie way, way down over what we had to do before, what with the loud fans in the old one.

It’s the first iPhone photo app that seems worthwhile to me.

Fun stuff.

It’s filled with folks like Terry Savage, douchebag.

Jeebus. Cliff Lee just won this third complete game in a row. Facing the best lineup in baseball, he did give up 4 runs, but for whatever reason, the Mariners hit like a professional baseball team tonight, and they scored 7 runs to support the best pitcher in baseball. Unbelievable.