Today’s serving of Brain Stew is… jade green. Sweetie darling, green is the new purple. Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight, someone’s thinking of me and muttering, “Random!” No, a whacko is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to… more or less. With equal parts hackneyed verbal diarrhea, serendipity, insipidity, Bipitty Boppity Boo, everything’s coming up green today. The title sez all.
The first order of business — many thanks (salamat) to Jhed who nommed fruityoaty as one of The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007. 
Jhed blogged, “The queen of food porn! Haha! Reading her blog is like talking to her face-to-face. No shits or whatsoever, which I really like. It’s refreshing with a hint of retardness!” (How much am I loving that last bit? Buckets.)
Jhed is currently sitting in 9th spot after 8 weeks with 8 nominations! If you want to shout out that you totally dig Jhed’s transparent style tinged with pink pizazz AND you have a website, join Janette Toral’s contest now!
Due to the kindness of 11 highly disturbed bloggers, I’ve been sitting in 6th spot for the last 4 weeks. Weird. Satan 
called and he wants his number back. Eh, with 3 weeks left in the contest, a Top 10 finish is hardly locked.
But I’m not here to dish out more food porn. (Lei sez she’s on a diet. Let’s give the poor girl a break. She’s already devasted by the Wentworth Miller is gay rumours, har.) Today, I stand before my blogger bros and sisters to confess my other vice — tech & gadget lust. I live on The Isle of Nerdonia.
Nooo, not electronic sex toys. Sheesh. For example, the new shiny iPhone. I sooo want one. Gizmodo has a great list of Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an iPhone. Follow the link for full details. Briefly, they are:
- Not all iPod Accessories and headphones will work with the iPhone
- AT&T is Evil
- No video recording or MMS
- No Instant Messaging
- Not for business use
- It’s not a full iPod Replacement, and it has no games
- It’s not a smartphone
- The data connection is slow
- There’s no GPS
- There are no custom ringtones
How environmentally green is that iPhone? Did ya know that Greenpeace ran a successful Green my Apple campaign to pressure Apple to improve its environmental policies and practices? Well, no official word yet from Apple about any green features. Go here for updates on the issue. Do you care?
OK, so even if I had extra cash to drop right now, I’m not very gung-ho to buy a first generation iPhone ’cause I’m waiting for iPhone Transformers that turn into kickass robots. 
Second gen release — more features, less defects and cheaper. Speaking of Transformers (the movie), read Jigs’ 10 Kinds of Awesome. Jigs creams in his pants and sez “awesome” 15 times.
In this interview, Shia LaBeouf was asked if the film used a lot of green screens. He answered: “No. We build the robots, we blew stuff up. This all really happened. There’s stuff we could’ve done on green screen but the way that [ Michael ] Bay works, and the way he works with actors, which is why it’s funny to me he goes to such lengths to put his actors in situations that are safety (??) and dangerous for their reaction and their response.” That basically means the director is C-CRAZY. Real action?
7.7.07. The day they announced The New 7 Wonders of the World… and Live Earth concerts were held throughout 8 major cities around the world to raise awareness to global warming and other kinds of shit we’re doing to our world. If you want to make a difference, switch from energy-hogging traditional light bulbs to CFB (compact fluorescent bulbs). My friend Valerie wrote a couple of good articles (here and here) about her research to find CFB that mimic the warm glow of traditional light bulbs.
… and lastly, here’s the entire article (featuring my cousin and his gadget fetish) published in a major daily newspaper. I don’t want him stumbling on my blog, so I’m not linking to the online article… Just screen captures:
THE REST OF THE ARTICLE IS INTERESTING BUT ENTIRELY OPTIONAL READING. Click on a thumbnail image (3 total) to enlarge:
What is it with these “I watched An Inconvenient Truth” sooo pretentious types? Ouch, harsh. I’m kidding. Say hello to my green-eyed monster.
Adieu for now,
green-eyed fruity
There’s a new iPhone in the works that is going to sell for under $300. Plus there is an open source phone that is coming out soon that is going to be far cheaper than the iPhone with many of the same features, plus some other ones that are standard with cell phones now.
I like Shia. Weird on Even Stevens, haha! Well, iPhone sucks with those bullet things… Maybe the 2nd gen would be nicer… haha, but I want one with Bumblebee! Yikes!
Honestly, I got turned off with the iPhone and probably will wait for the next generation instead, but I wish Apple will open it so it works on any telecom networks as normal mobile phones. Vodafone here got enough of the requirements Apple imposed upon them as a sole distributor and nixed the whole deal.
I am also a gadget freak but my interests are usually limited to gaming consoles, mp3 players, PCs and laptops.
Well, those gadgets are everywhere. Even the poorest Filipinos won’t be left behind. They themselves own cellular phones. The money intended for food is now being used to supply themselves a load, para lang makipag tsismisan.
A nice day ahead.
I’ll be delighted to buy the iPhone if it will transform into a mass-destructing gargantuan robot.
And yeah, evil stuff are cooler than the good ones.
Thanks for the info on the iPhone. I would love to have one, but I think I’m fine with my Dopod.
The New 7 Wonders of the World. As it was revealed so are the issues behind it. UNESCO and Egypt are soooo much against it. Oh, well at least it got the world’s attention to the world’s finest sites / discoveries / creations.
I was interested in the iPhone, until I read some of those things. That’s really interesting, but I’m sure that Apple will improve on it more and more.
Transformers is a really good movie. And it’s cool that the director didn’t rely on green screens because then actors actually had something real to react to.
That is so good to know about the iPhone! Not that I would actually have bought one, because god knows I have no money for that kind of frivolous purchase, but I so wanted one! And now I want one way less. Thank you!
The iPhone is an interesting concept and certainly cool, but it is not something I would shell out $600. $600 for something that is going to be:
a. obsolete
b. a “buy one, get one free!!” plan in a year or two
-and/or-
c. full of glitches and other faults that they are probably going to tweak for the upcoming versions of the product
It is hardly worth it, especially just to say, “Hey, I got this HOT new product!” Kids were saying that years ago when the first click wheel iPod came out… and look where you can buy one of those now: nowhere. They are junk when compared to the new iPods.
Additionally, I thought the plans (the ones that are for new accounts, not adding an additional fee to an existing AT&T plan) for the iPhone were horrible. The lowest plan is $60 a month for 450 minutes and 200 text messages whereas the highest plan is $219 a month for 6,000 minutes and 200 text messages. Unlimited text messages is an extra $20 a month. No thanks. I think I will stick to my T-Mobile plan: unlimited text messages, 600 minutes, free nights and weekends, etc. all for about $60 a month.
For 500 bucks, I think the iPhone is cool enough. Some phones are waaay more expensive. So I can be considerate with the fact that it doesn’t have custom ringtones or that you have to have a two-year contract with AT&T to even use it. But I can’t imagine not being able to take videos. That’s why I’m not buying one.
Plus I’m broke.