This made me ask myself, when was the last time I really gave up something of worth to a stranger on Christmas…

They Gave Up Their Christmas

“Where family meals are concerned, it’s not the food, but the family interaction that nourishes the soul.”

This is the annoying commercial that they play every 10 minutes in the afternoon. Every time Kaitlyn hears it, she would start doing her little “dance”.

Optimum Triple Play commercial:

If you’re wondering why we don’t just have a video of her dancing to it, it’s because by the time we get the camera out, she stops doing what we wanted to record her doing. This goes for pretty much everything. =/

My 2 very talented cousins Benjamin & Jonathan Chan just came out with a CD titled Quiet Inspirations. So of course I’m promoting it on our blog! If anyone is interested, check it out at www.ChamberHymns.com.

Check out this video clip of them appearing on KSL Channel 5 in Utah. We’d appreciate it if you could rate it after (preferably 4-5 STARS!!). Thanks!

…Christmas of 2010, that is.

If you haven’t heard, Apple just came out with a new all-in-one cellphone, the iPhone. It really makes the Blackberry or Q look like 1920 typewriters (“capable” but ugly) & the RAZR look like a Barbie doll (“pretty” but incapable).

The iPhone is a 3-in-one device: phone, widescreen iPod, internet. It not only looks great, it does ALMOST everything (phone calls, visual voicemail, text messaging, photos, video, music, calendar, notes, Google map, full-featured web browsing, rich text push email the Blackberry way), equipped with ALMOST everything (3.5-inch screen, quad-band GSM, EDGE, camera, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, multi-touch touchscreen, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor), and cost ALMOST everything ($499 for 4 gig or $599 for 8 gig).

OK, so it’s not really that ridiculously expensive. It’s actually a decent price considering all the features included, PLUS all the innovative user interface design that Apple has introduced to the cellphone, taken from the Mac. It takes all the complication & frustration out of using a cellphone (if you’ve seen your parents learning to use their cellphones, you’ll know what I mean). It’s really going to change the way people use & expect from their cellphones.

That’s why I’m predicting that in 3 years, the iPhone & Apple’s marketing department will be so good that, I should no longer be able to resist the urge to get one myself or ask someone to buy me one.

At the rate that they are innovating, by 2010, the phone would be so capable that I can probably use it to watch live TV, track my kids’ whereabouts, start my car, warm my hands, heat up my food, do DNA analysis, beam me up, etc.

You see?

Aaaaah.
4 more weeks of school.

OK Go: “Here It Goes Again” [lyrics]