Working Out the Details

The other day I got together with Josh, Dave and a bunch of other people in Washington Square Park and Josh made the situation a little clearer.

First off, they've got an iPod Touch to give me, which is cool. I was slightly wary of the idea of having an iPhone and needing to ignore certain aspects of the device, so I'm happy that the device in question is an iPod.

Secondly, it's a kind of loner device. Provocateurs that they are, Josh and Dave apparently use their extra electronics for nefarious purposes -- like trading them for cakes, bicycles or as tools to trick people into doing work for them. I am clearly immune to their machinations. ...Wait a minute! Hm. Oh, well -- point to you, Josh and Dave.

Thirdly, and lastly of the numberlies, the specific device they have in mind is currently in the possession of their previous victim and they've been angling to get it back. It looked like Josh was going to actually have the device when I saw him in the park, but no go. The other guy's still got the thing. They're still working on the situation and will sort it out eventually.

That's kind of a good thing, I think, since I still haven't taken the time to troubleshoot the access controls for this blog. You can read my progress quite clearly (fill in any gaps with beer, basically) and I've obviously just set this thing up and then run away. Well, time to get to work! ...I guess.

Less Drunk, Still Confused

At this point I'm pretty sure this is all private. Actually, I'm extremely sure that it's about as private as anything gets when using a Google service -- Lorna is my test subject for granting readership permission and even she can't read the blog. That's a pretty significant degree of privacy!

This project was inspired by Josh's threat to give me an iPod Touch or iPhone so I can play some iOS video games myself and, like, form opinions based on actual experience instead of just being grumpy about everything all the time. This is a very generous threat, to be honest, and I thought it might be worth everyone's time to put some effort into my end of the bargain.

To that end -- this blog. If I do get an iOS thing, my plan is to try to play a game at least every week and then write about it here on this blog. I'm comfortable with the thought of Josh, Dave and Lorna reading this writing and I think I could produce posts pretty reliably. We'll see, I guess.

The ball is in Josh and Dave's court, although they don't know it at the moment. It's just a waiting game now. Maybe they will really give me a thinger and I'll have to try to live up to this whole concept, or maybe they'll come to their senses. Who knows?!

A Drunk for Josh and Dave

Alternate title for this post: You Brought This upon Yourselves

Here's the thing: just set up this blog, been thinking about doing so for a while, but now that it's, like, here, I've got to go change all the settings. It seems so sudden -- you think about doing a thing for a few weeks, finally decide to do it ...no, wait -- I missed a step: think about doing a thing, drink a case of beer and then decide to do it, and now it's, like, happening! Wow.

So instead of explaining myself, this first post is sort of damage control. Like: "Hello! ...Holy cats, I've got to try to make sure this is sort of remotely private!! Goodbye!!!" Like that.

Goodbye!!!