The geek in me…

For several weeks, I’ve pondered whether to fly to Chicago in late July for the UNITY journalism conference, where the Asian American, African American, Native American and Latino journalism organizations unite for a week-long gathering. It’s a chance to meet up with current colleagues, reconnect with old friends, and well, party.

A few days ago, I got a spam email, saying: “15 days until pre-registration ends!” The next day, I got an email that said: “14 days until pre-registration ends!” Today, I got an email that read: “50 days until UNITY!”

Well, here’s how I figure it. For the $500 for roundtrip airfare and the $375 it would cost for pre-registration, not to mention food and other expenses, I can buy three new second-generation iPhones for my whole family.

The geek in me wins out!

And yes, I think I’m going to choose the new 3G iPhone over the new BlackBerry Bold.

June 2, 2008 | Filed Under tech lust 

Comments

7 Responses to “The geek in me…”

  1. Miiko Mentz on June 3rd, 2008 12:10 am

    Woohoo. We’re all gettin’ new iPhones. Yeah baby!

    I get to emerge from the dark ages and don’t have to carry that brick of an iPod around any longer or my other brick aka my Treo. Ha, and no more getting teased about it.

    I sure hope qik supports the iPhone soon.

  2. dan on June 3rd, 2008 12:59 am

    You evil person. You can buy ONE second-generation iPhone AND go to Chicago, you know!

    Housing and the the first 15 drinks were on me! ;)

  3. amy on June 5th, 2008 9:06 pm

    uh, yeah…! no reason to go to Chicago if I’m not there!

  4. amy on June 5th, 2008 9:06 pm

    I forgot to add that, yes, I am completely self-centered. And not ashamed at all. :)

  5. wylie on June 6th, 2008 3:14 am

    LOL!

    yeah, totally. why meet up in chicago when we can meet up at… thanh long!

  6. Amber on June 6th, 2008 10:39 pm

    Wylie, once again I’m glad to see you’ve got your priorities straight. iPhones haven’t reached Taiwan yet, so I recently bought HTC’s (http://www.htc.com/www/default.aspx) PDA phone. Before that I had a similar thing from dopod (which HTC eventually bought out). Anyway, geeks are often in good company.

  7. wylie on June 7th, 2008 3:03 am

    Wow. That’s a pretty cool phone! Touchscreen. 3.2 megapixel camera. Windows OS *and* a GPS? You are stylin’!

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