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Apple came out and announced iPhone OS 3.0 a few days ago.  It’s got some great new stuff in it, including (finally) push notifications, copy+paste, MMS (picture/video messages), turn-by-turn navigation, and more.  Reading the news, I thought to myself, “Great, I’ve been wanting MMS since this thing came out.”

Honestly, how is it that a $600 phone was ever released doesn’t have one of the most common features in existence?  I’ve heard arguments that it wasn’t required, because the phone handled email.  After all, email is better than picture messaging, right?  Apple was one of the first companies to stop putting floppy drives in their computers, because they were ahead of the curve.  Such is the case with MMS, right?

Wrong.  Dead fucking wrong.  As long as you have friends out there who have and use MMS, email is worthless in filling the void.  It certainly has its place–after all, I use email on my phone all the time.  But almost none of my friends or family have a phone that does email.  Nope, they all have regular phones that “only” to MMS.  It’s bothered me since the day I bought my phone.

Great, right?  They’re finally fixing a fundamental flaw with the phone by adding in a missing feature.  Oh wait, there’s some small print.  “Only available on iPhone 3G.”  Huh? So because I was there in line on the first day, giving Apple my money without ever seeing the phone in person, I got fucked.  Well, fuck you too, Apple.  I’m buying a Pre as soon as the damn thing is released.  Ironically, that likely means Palm will screw me somehow, too.  But, at least they haven’t done it yet, and Apple has.

Suppose we are at war, and I take you prisoner. Let’s say I believe you have information that may be valuable to me, but you won’t divulge it with my ordinary interrogation tactics. So then I strap you down, cover your face with a cloth, and pour water on you to simulate the experience of drowning. Is that torture? Better question: how is that not torture? Apparently, though, it is not.

Road construction up here in Washington (at least around Seattle) is absolutely horrible. I don’t know who thought it up, but they shouldn’t be allowed to step foot behind a car if they think it’s fine.

Basically, they shutdown a lane or two while they’re doing work, which makes absolute sense–I imagine you don’t want the workers dodging traffic. I get that much. That part I’m cool. So far we’re good. But then, then, when they call it a day, they just cover the part of the road they were working on with steel sheets and put up a sign that says “Bump”.

Sound reasonable? Yeah, it might, until you realize that these are no ordinary steel sheets. They’re like fucking eighteen inches tall! Honestly these things might be tough to walk over, much less drive a car over. I swear I’m going to pop my tires one of these times.

And really, when you can see them, it’s not an issue. However, the roads here are pretty hilly, and I think they go out of their way to only do work right on the summits of these mini-mountains. It’s like they’re playing some kind of game with me, except that I don’t get to say, “No thank you”, and it hurts.

If this is how they do road construction most places around the country, they need to take a page out of Illinois’ methods. And geez, believe me when I say that’s horrible, too. Gotta repave a quarter mile of highway, do ya? Well… I don’t know, I figure that’ll take about a year and a half. Yeah, at least.

This happened a couple nights ago, and because everybody loved the last one, here’s another injury for you. That’s Jorge Garbajosa of the Toronto Raptors.

In fact, one study found that up to 70% of people who had herpes got it from their partner when their partner had no signs or symptoms of an outbreak.
Source, Valtrex website

I keep seeing these commercials on TV for Valtrex that quote that stat. I want to say that again, 70% of people get herpes when their partner had no symptoms or signs of an outbreak. Using my superior powers of logic and reasoning (and subtraction), I calculate that 30% of people get genital herpes when their partner had symptoms. Can you imagine that? 30% of people were so horny, drunk, or stupid that they would do the nasty despite seeing that their partner had genital herpes. I find that to be incredibly astounding.

Update: Press Release

The MRI revealed that Livingston suffered tears to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and lateral meniscus. Livingston also suffered a patella dislocation, in addition to the previously diagnosed tibia/femoral dislocation.