I Heart Jonah Goldberg (and other matters)

He's just so gosh darn good at saying what I'm thinking. Radicals Never Say Sorry

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And on to more pressing matters ... American Idol was really good last night. David Achuleta (am I still spelling it wrong? Too lazy to check) is just so incredibly talented. I am really impressed with him. So impressed, in fact, that I voted for him -- twice.

Here's something I'm not impressed with, though. I have my very first complaint about my new toy. We all know that when you vote for your favorite American Idol, you have to dial 1-866-Idols-10 (or whatever the contestant number you want -- David A. was 10 last night). Here's the problem: The Pearl has a QWERTY keyboard with two letters per key. In the center of the keypad, the keys also have numbers on them, for actually dialing the phone, arranged in the normal pattern (1 2 3 across the top, 4 5 6 in the next row, and so on). These numbers do not correspond with letters the way a normal phone does (where 1 is blank, 2 has ABC, 3 has DEF), and so on. I had to use Fiance's Razor as a reference to figure out how to dial IDOLS on my phone. It was really tough.

When I woke up this morning, I had my second complaint about the Pearl: I charged it all night, and as soon as I unplugged it this morning, the battery was at half full (or half empty ...). I'm not sure why that happened, but if it happens again tonight, I'll call the store.

Otherwise, I am thoroughly wowed by this little gadget. It gets my emails, it locates me via satellite, it makes a creamy cappuccino .... It's just super cool.