Up early, i decided I’d go for an iPhone. It was not to be. Having seen the line at the Apple store on Michigan Ave., I trucked on over to AT&T. The line was much shorter, but they wouldn’t tell us their stock level and they in fact ran out before I got one. Very irritating. So irritating in fact I bothered to write about it somewhere where people might actually read it.
Video rant coming soon. (Sorry, ScooterGirl.)
If you go to that link you’ll notice the interview with the developer. I was in front of him. In addition to the sales tax idea (which is basically a mash up between the iPhone’s GPS and a Sabrix transaction tax engine — and if you look at that link you’ll note it ends in “campaign=70160000000Cg9P”; that’s a salesforce.com campaign ID if I ever saw one — nice!).
The developer’s other idea was tracking the residual value of non-durable consumer goods as part of an individual’s net worth. For example, if you could use Craigslist to convert a blender to $20, shouldn’t that be part of your net worth? Hmmmmm.
In final news, the company — or some photos we placed on Flickr, anyway — were featured on Office Snapshots. Note the beer, pizza and Galaga. I freaking love Galaga. I remember playing Galaga in a laundromat in Idaho Falls, plugging in quarter after quarter. And I have it for the XBox. Mmmmm.
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I miss Galaga, too. i must admit to a lingering crush on Ms. PacMan as well.
sigh.
Oh so here’s the AT&T iPhone shipping and sales policy information
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/07/10/att-iphone-3g-shipment-info/
My father’s town demanded an inventory of valuable items and their estimated worth is figured into his property taxes. The town was not happy to learn that he didn’t have a plasma tv, large sound system, diamonds, etc.
What about blenders? If it can be converted to $20 on craigslist, he should be taxed on that 20, right?
God I hope they don’t find the un-used waffle iron J and I received as a wedding gift. It could really send me over the edge tax burden wise.
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