Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

And this will be my next phone

If the iPhone prototype found in some café proves to be genuine, then this will likely be my next phone. In fact, I've been waiting for the next round of iPhone to come out this summer to replace my nearly two-year-old iPhone 3G, which works fine and everything, but is a little slow now and lacks some of the nifty features that this "protoype" has.

I like the high-resolution screen and the video capability. After all, I've got little nephews and nieces, as well as elderly relatives who say sitcom-level outrageous things.

Sorry, Samsung projector phone.

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The Sanity InspectorThursday, April 22, 2010 2:16:00 AM
What a modern life we lead, eagerly looking forward to acquiring the latest glowing rectangle...

...don't mind me, I can't keep up, is all.
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7Ø7Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:54:00 AM
Yeah, I really prefer this one over the old one too. I was never a fan of the old (plastic) iPhone design.
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reijeneThursday, April 22, 2010 2:58:00 PM
tsk.. boys and their toys... ^.^
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kushiboThursday, April 22, 2010 3:20:00 PM
The Sanity Inspector, I don't think I'm one of those types. I did not get the 3Gs, simply because I had no justification for it, even though it's faster and has more functionality.

This 4G, however, is a different thing. I almost bought an iPod Nano just so I could have a little go-anywhere video camera, and if the 4G has this, then that alone would justify the cost.

reijene, the women in my life tend to get excited about these things, too. How have you been?
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JonnyThursday, April 22, 2010 4:03:00 PM
Apple's wave really seems to be cresting, especially here in Korea nowadays. I'm even looking seriously at picking up one of those 4G thingamabobs, and the last time I used Apple was in 1988 at my university computer lab before Bill Gates took home the chips.
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* Monster Island (actually a peninsula)

The name of this blog comes from a line in "Lisa on Ice," a beloved episode of The Simpsons, perhaps my all-time favorite television show (even though for several seasons there, it really did suck). Lisa is imagining being sworn in as president, but at the last minute, it is discovered that she failed P.E. (physical education) and she is thus "sentenced to a lifetime of horror" on Monster Island. "Don't worry," the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court confides in her, "It's just a name."

Fast forward to Lisa and other prisoners running in panic through a tropical jungle, chased by Godzilla-like creatures, including a monster turtle and a monster firefly.

"He said it was just a name!" Lisa screams to the man next to her. While he, too, runs for his life, the unidentified man calmly says, "What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula."

Anyway, I thought in some ways that punchline summed up modern-day Korea in a nutshell. For many people—foreigners and Koreans—the ups and downs and everyday travails of the Republic of Korea make it as precarious as a Monster Island would be (and with the DMZ being the only land border, it really is like an island). But it actually is a peninsula. Okay, it made sense in my head.

So as you can see, despite the hits I get from people looking for Japanese tentacle porn, it has nothing to do with anything salacious as that.