On iPhone Apps

This image actually appeared as the Fun Page title header in a Spring 2009 issue of Binghamton University's Pipe Dream student newspaper and was the specific image that got me banned from using staff members' photos in my titles ever again. Sad really, because Lee Winkler really has some killer legs in this shot.


Today's blog has been left in its original IM format because if I wrote it out like this was all my own idea you would not believe any of it ever happened the way it did.

AIM IM with Bryan Haas 10/31/09 9:54 PM

Me: So it turns out some Germans beat me to a photosensitive light meter iPhone app.
Bryan Haas: haha They are an efficient bunch.
Me: But after owning an iPhone for a week now, I've come up with a new app idea. Basically, it's a little animated dude and he walks onto the screen. And he's a little hipster in plaid and a vest and funny hair and shit. And then all he does is say "I'm not a douchebag. Promise," and walks off.
Bryan: haha I'd be all over that
Me: I'll call it the "I'm Not A DoucheBag" app. It'll be for people who get iPhones but want everyone to know it's not just because they're pheromone-level status symbols.
Bryan: haha This sounds like a blog idea Dave. Except then people could steal it.
Me: It does, doesn't it?
Bryan: Go ahead.
Me: I hid my light meter idea for 6 months and then gauged professional interest secretly on Facebook. Then this kid I know found it so interesting he went out and found the Germans. I searched that shit up and down. The closest anyone had was a conversion process, but this kid made some quantum observations or something and suddenly the Germans had had a light-detecting one for like a year.
Bryan: Wow. That's all I can say
Me: Yuuup.
Bryan: You've left me dumbfounded
Me: America was dumbfounded. Columbus was all HURR DURR HEY GUYS I FOUND A PASSAGE TO INDIA YOU CAN TELL CUZ ALL THE PEOPLE ARE BROWN AND TALK FUNNY. And then Amerigo Vespucci was like A DURR HURR HURR UR RONG DAT'S A NUDDER CONTNINANT! and Columbus was all HUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Bryan: You are a master of your craft sir.
Me: This is all going in that blog now.
Bryan: It should.

GO AHEAD AND STEAL MY IDEA NOW, BITCHES! INTELlECTUAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGE ME AND I'LL SUE YOUR ASS LIKE THEM FINNS OVER AT NOKIA.