RIM - Blackberry Bold - AT&T - WTF?

So I was watching CNBC a bit ago and they were announcing the new Blackberry Bold (9000) phone.  I won’t get into the details of the device since we’ve all probably seen pictures of it on the internet anyway.  However, the announcement that it would only be available exclusively to AT&T right off shocked me.  The initial model will support GSM networks and later models will work with Sprint and Verizon, which is fine.  But when you are pricing your phone in the same range as the iPhone wouldn’t you want it to be on a different provider?  If I switched from Verizon to AT&T and I had the choice of an iPhone or the Bold for around the same price, you can be damn certain that I’d choose the iPhone.  I just don’t understand the decision.  I think it’s stupid to be exclusive to one provider anyway, but definitely not the one that a rival phone is exclusively on also.  Especially since the iPhone announced Exchange support and will attract more business users.  Don’t know…maybe AT&T are just really good negotiators and offered the RIM execs a fresh asian hooker for every 100 phones sold or something.

Its not so easy

Reblogged from Team Rick Whit.

mattirick:

There is nothing like moving up weights in the gym to get your body to tell you just exactly how much you fucked up your elbow arm wrestling at Yogi’s. You see ladies. Its not so easy to be a guy either. I know your road is definitely tougher, what with the child bearing and other female bodily functions. But testosterone can be a bitch too. How else can you explain me challenging a stranger who is bigger than me to a feat of strength that hasn’t been used since that shitty Sylvester Stallone movie? Ill tell you, because whiskey and testosterone combine into hubris(and also horniness, but that comes later in the night), and I was going to be God Dammned before I let someone from the MSIS party be stronger than me… I won though, but, by admitting to acting like this when I drink, I actually lose.

Ahh! Over the Top! That’s the name of the Stallone movie.

If there’s something to learn from watching Over the Top, it’s that you have to wear a backwards hat and do the finger switch mid match.  If you didn’t do this, then I’m very disappointed.

Don't Be A Shithead

Reblogged from Team Rick Whit.

Wow - great response on both posts, mattirick. I’m hoping someone else starts an argument with you so you can rip them a new asshole as well, even though you wrote a damn novel for the last post. :)