I don’t think they’re right for me.

So, the average text message price around here without any special plan is about 15 cents per sms message. I don’t know if you know just how little data there is in an SMS message but I’ll break it down for you here;

An SMS message is 140octets or 1120 bits. (that’s 160 7-bit characters if you’re wondering why you can send more than 140 character messages. Just depends on which alphabet your provider uses.)
SO if we translate that into Megabytes…
1024 octets (bytes) in a kilobyte
1024 kilobytes in a megabyte
1,048,576 octets in a Megabyte
1,048,576 divided by 140 is 7489(and a bit)
7489x15cents=$1123.35

So yeah. $1123.35 per megabyte to send text messages. Sounds perfectly reasonable doesn’t it?

-dean

Why as a matter of fact, I DID find a haberdasher in Winnipeg. So kind of you to notice.

Finally.

-dean

I was talking with ana about this song and I didn’t have the Mp3 so I did my best to reproduce it for her, because I’m cool like that. I probably should have sung it in falsetto to cover up the fact that I can neither sing nor play guitar…

-dean

I’ve been getting a lot of heat lately for my anti-travel sentiments. So I am submitting a list of places I will gladly accompany you to if you want plan out a trip that includes me, and I’m not joking about this list.

First up Places I have next to no interest in ever visiting ever:
France, Italy, Britain, hot places.

Places I would love to go:
Chernobyl
Antarctica
North Korea
Galapagos Islands
Drive Straight North until we run out of road
Whatever backwards little town you grew up in (provided you’ll regale me with tales of your youth there.)
And Japan. But I think I’d have to live there for a month or so. A short trip doesn’t interest me at all.

Places I’d totally be cool with going to even though i have no idea what I’d want to do when I got there:
Greenland, Iceland, Norway (Svalbard included), Sweden

You could probably sell me on a trip to some random natural attraction.
ie. Niagra Falls, Mountains, Grand Canyon.
but you may encounter some resistance “Niagra falls is a long way to travel just to see some water falling off a cliff. Grand Canyon is unfortunately located in the United States” So you’d best back it up with “also, we’re going to Legoland.”

-dean

I wonder if those Make-a-Wish foundation kids ever ask for something incredibly awesome in how inappropriate it is?

“I want a tattoo of Dora the Explorer.”
“Suzy Kimson, make her let me touch her boob”
“I want you to put a hit out on the math teacher”
“I’ll never be old enough to drink, bring me one of everything.”

Look what steph brought back for me from Winnipeg!