i iz in ur iPhonez

by dusty on Sep.10, 2009 , under Uncategorized

…bloggin’ on ur internetz. And there goes my meme quota for the month, though that one’s so outdated, I don’t know if it counts.

I don’t own an iPhone, or any of those other fancy-pants cellular-telephones-that-are-more-than-telephones. I had planned to be in the research phase of buying a so-called “smart phone” right now, but then a run-in with a Park Ranger at Devil’s Lake a couple weeks ago set me back some respectable scratch, so that plan might have to wait a little bit.

And if I may digress for a moment, but what the hell, Ranger Kenneth C Lane ? Honestly? I’m a nice enough guy. I get where I’m going quickly, but I don’t put anybody’s LIFE in danger. And if I’d known you were going to write me a damn ticket anyway, I’d have told you to stow your lecture so I could ride back to Madison before the damn sun set. You wondered why I was in a hurry. If I’d wrecked myself on a deer that night, you were going to be my first bedridden hospital phone call.

I’ve gotta put at least half of my speeding tickets to date down to simple bad luck and bored cops. You don’t rack up four of them and ZERO other moving violations or accidents without being a driver of stupefying skill and unfathomably bad karma. But thanks to Ranger Lane, I can now claim to have received a speeding citation from every level of local law enforcement — a (Monroe) police officer, a (Columbia) county sheriff’s deputy, a (Wisconsin) state trooper and a (Devil’s Lake) park ranger. I’m not missing any that I know of. If this were GTA, I’d be getting some sort of points bonus right now.

But yes, that’s why I’m not getting a phone with the internet on it any time soon. However, if you’re so inclined to gloat about your technological superiority, here’s the perfect opportunity. You can now view MY website from YOUR mobile device, even though I myself am not equipped to do so.

My web guru MattRock, who doesn’t have my kind of problems, is the guy who equipped the site to look uber-savvy from an iPhone. He was also generous enough to send me some screen shots of what I would be seeing if I had an iPhone of my own.

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I’m sure these screens weren’t meant to “rub it in” at all.

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The layout’s simple but very readable, but the coolest damn thing about it is the fedora with a press pass icon. That just about knocked me out of my chair when I saw it. In fact, if I had an iPhone, I like it so much I would make it an icon on my home screen, which, by the way, is an option…

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Just visit the site as usual and save the bookmark to the home screen. I’d be flattered if you did, but don’t ask me how to do it beyond what MattRock laid out for me here. If you’re using an iPhone, you’re already miles ahead of me.

In the meantime, I’ll just keep writing and saving my pennies.

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