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[Nabubrush]

Until the last year I had never really bought anything for my self since high school.  Every penny I had went to smokes, smokes, coke and booze.

Man, I would have liked to have had a friend like you, all spending all your money on smokes smoke, coke and booze for your buddies!

[theinevitable]

My iPhone is one of my favorite things, but I am probably going to get rid of it. Slowly dying, has been dropped too much lately... It will be replaced by a normal cellphone, and I will return to the world of being bored/lost a lot. Also, carrying too many things around.

All of my coworkers have iPhones. Weird.

[jay-ell]

I have one of these and a data plan. That means I can load music & audiobooks onto it, but I never do because I also have an 4th gen iPod. I use it for texting and social networking -- it has a qwerty keyboard when you flip it open -- and sometimes games. And it has a GPS app that is better than most stand-alone GPS units I've encountered.

Nice middle ground between a "just a phone" phone and a true smartphone. IMHO, YMMV.

[Nabubrush]

I just want to get something that will allow me to read the New Yorker archives on the airplane. As cheaply as possible.

[littlefallsmets]

...a monocle?

[Nabubrush]

Nice.

Seriously, though - I recently discovered that my subscription provides me with free, unfettered access to their archives back to issue one in 1925. This is something I would really enjoy getting at on the plane. Would the right way to do this be the iPad? It seems like it'd be a pain in the ass on an iPhone. Also, I don't know if I'd have to pay extra to get it offline. That's probably the hitch in the giddy-up.

[KeithHernandez]

Actually reading stuff on the iphone is pretty nice.

Hi Nabu!

[Nabubrush]

Hey Keith!

[AugustWest]

I don't give a shit about having an Iphone, a Droid or any of that other shit.  I wouldn't mind having some sort of e-reader, but I'm not into paying retail for every damn book I read, so I guess if I did I'd be burning up the Gutenberg Project.  And the New Yorker archives, which I think they also sell on DVD for about 40 bucks, FWIW.

[Doc]

Today my country is gonna get a government.
So that's alright.

[Arachno-capitalist]

<------------
That is the opposite of alright.

Today my country is gonna get a government.
So that's alright.

[Doc]

Well, it's worked out so far.

[Nabubrush]

I don't give a shit about having an Iphone, a Droid or any of that other shit.  I wouldn't mind having some sort of e-reader, but I'm not into paying retail for every damn book I read, so I guess if I did I'd be burning up the Gutenberg Project.  And the New Yorker archives, which I think they also sell on DVD for about 40 bucks, FWIW.

I remember they had it on a hard drive for the longest time for like $100, which I always wanted to pull the trigger on, but I figure I already have free access to them, it's just a matter of figuring out how to get it in front of my eyeballs on the plane. Although I usually just get the movie player and watch some piece of shit such as "Date Night".

[Victoria Waterfield]

Today my country is gonna get a government.
So that's alright.

<------------
That is the opposite of alright.

So is your name really Anarcho-capitalist, but everyone, including my browser, has been misspelling it?

[JorgeFabregas]

....break out my blue S.A.D. light as it seems like we're going to string together some overcast September days. Maybe Onstad is in a funk from moving to more cloudy climes. Not that the Bay area is like Phoenix, or anything.