Xmas Blog

Well it isn't Xmas, but it sure feels like it.

Short break from that thought though. I thought it would be a good idea to let you know that I did survive the Typhoon. I figure most of the people who read my blog would have figured that out by now. So once again that's all I really signed on for.

Of course that was a lie. Today I got a Japanese cell phone. Now when you see a Japanese cellphone you might be tempted to think “Well that's a piece of crap.” Now that's not necessarily true. I got a pay as you go phone. This phone looks cheap, like a basic flip phone with a crappy camera. So as I'm getting the phone, which looks kind of big I learn things about it. It has unlimited e-mailing for only $3 a month. If I want to pay out the rear I can use the Internet. Oh also it has a TV built in. That's right. A TV. I get eight channels for free on my phone, and the image comes in wide screen. Oh also right after that I learned something else. Japanese cell phones can do video calling. So when in America we're all like “The Jetsons lied to us” it's really more like American companies don't want to do that.

So yeah all this totally blew me away because this is a cheap Japanese cellphone. So I get the phone and I start playing with it in the car. It has a MicroSD slot, which I can use to upload music, and then I can use that music as ring tones. That's right. In Japan they don't make you re-buy music as a ringtone (or convert it to the right format on your computer) you can just use what you have. I thought this was so cool, but really I shouldn't because this should be how things are in America too. Anyway the phone also has a currency converter, and metric to standard converter. I can send all my contact info to other people via infrared or bluetooth. New phones even have this mode that allows the phones to just be touched together to send the info. It also has a Japanese to English dictionary. It can also record live TV. All of this is included with the phone.

Point is, we need this stuff in America and we need it now.

Oh also I got a Famicom. You should know what that is.