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Less is more

November 16, 2011 by Lloyd 6 Comments

You might remember a few months ago that I sort of dropped my iPhone a little. I wasn’t worried, because I had purchased insurance for it. But I wasn’t in any hurry to be without it for a couple of weeks and the deductable was $50.00, so I just lived with it.

poor little iPhone4

I really wanted to get a wooden back. Lauren even thought it would be cool, so I looked for a place that I could order one. Unfortunately, the one place I found a nice walnut back didn’t ship to our zip-code (I know, what’s up with that?).

I did find a nice one for $16.38. It took all of three days to make it to our zip-code. It came with instructions and a screwdriver. It was easy to take the back off, and I looked around a bit.

Mostly battery and screen

But what is that stuff around the camera?

hair today, gone tomorrow

This calls for a closer look. Note: this is the first time that I have been glad that Lauren likes to have a microscope around the house.

not what I expected

There were lots of little hairs, and they were only present around the camera assembly. I wondered for a bit if they were Steve Jobs’ hairs that were put into iPhones so that he could one day be cloned, but decided they were not quite the right color.

So I got out a little brush and a tweezer and began the removal process.

there were more than I expected

Once the hair was removed, it was quite easy to put the new back on.

it makes me feel rich

Tomorrow I’ll be convincing 7th graders that I’m testing a prototype for the new iPhone5 for Apple.

Filed Under: Cheap, Gadget, Lloyd Tagged With: hair, iphone, phone

A tip you probably already know…

May 6, 2009 by Lauren 11 Comments

… or don’t care about.

Lloyd was talking to Brad on the phone last night and I yelled, “Ask Brad what we should have for dinner.”

Lloyd – “Lauren wants to know what we should have for dinner.”

Brad – “Enchiladas.”

Lloyd – “Enchiladas.”

Me – “We don’t have the stuff.”

Lloyd – “We don’t have the stuff.”

Brad – “Isn’t improvisation her thing?”

Lloyd – “Isn’t improvisation your thing?”

Me – “We had improvisation last night.”

Lloyd – “Thanks, Brad. Now we’re going to have tuna enchiladas.”

So, no, we did not have tuna enchiladas, we had Messed-Up Spaghetti because I didn’t have any jarred sauce. I put a can of tomatoes in the pan and whirred it up with the stick blender, which is great fun.

blend

Then some frozen ground meat and spices were thrown in, the batch was tasted, and I found I had killed all the tomato flavor with my ‘spices’.

(Basil, garlic, some celery (I don’t know why) and a gigantic glug of Italian dressing.)

Bleh. It needed tomato paste.

Now, I have never used an entire can of tomato paste at one time in my life. I’m always freezing the leftover dabs, then finding their frozen corpses in the freezer months later. I actually thought of that ahead of time and checked the freeezer. No dabs. So, finally this too-long post will get to the jist: When opening a can of tomato paste, cut off both ends and push it out like a push-pop. You will get every little bit out of the can, even that little bit you’ll throw away in August.

one-handed

The end.

Filed Under: Cooking, Lauren, Lloyd Tagged With: brad, phone, royuk

iPhone Eve

June 28, 2007 by Lauren 5 Comments

˜Twas the night before iPhone,
and all through the houses,
the dorks and the geeks
click-click-clicked with their mouses.

The nerds were lined up
In collapsible chairs,
In hopes the new iPhone
Soon would be theirs.

The iPhones were snuggled
All safe in their box s,
Secure in the knowledge
They would run OS X (s).

Lauren in her jammies,
And Brad sleeping tight,
Lloyd’s on the keyboard –
On Apple’s website.

When what to his wondering
Eyes should appear,
But Steve Jobs on a Segway,
With eight wireless speakers.

“On iTunes! On Google!
On pictures and mapses!
On e-mail! On browsers!
Use touches and tapses!

On photos! On movies!
On phone calls to mom!
Dear legions, your dreams
Have come true -it’s da bomb!”

His eyes twinkled wildly
As he pulled from his pack,
a sleek-looking thing
like a tiny iMac.

He spoke not a word, but
He tossed it to Lloyd,
An iPhone! So shiny!
So geeky! Such joy!

Lloyd jumped around
All over the place!
“God bless you, Steve Jobs,
and your cool interface!”

Filed Under: Gadget, Journal Tagged With: phone, poetry

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