Sad, sad news. Dick Cheney’s in the hospital. Thank Lucifer (and modern medicine – when funded with an un-ending supply of money), it doesn’t sound serious though, so I’m sure he’ll be up and oozing around in no time. Just another reason to ban science from textbooks, I guess. Speaking of science, some guy named Larry Dossey (who is a ‘doctor’ so you know he’s very wise and important) has a story in the HuffPost basically saying that, because the conditions for life and the universe to exist as we know it are on very tight parameters, there just must be something out there that set things up for us. Which, of course, is kind of stupid. Because conditions were the way they were, the universe evolved the way it did. Had conditions been different, things, no doubt, would have evolved differently. And then a bunch of egotistical silicon-based funky-looking lifeforms would be insisting that the universe was created by some all-knowing, all-seeing invisible being who created them in his image.

Speaking of egotistical (not to mention silicon-based) entities, Apple’s response to many of their loyal fans’ complaints of totally losing their cell signal when they hold their new iPhone was to tell them they weren’t holding the phone right. Steve Jobs, in particular, seemed to more or less be calling his users idiots (but Steve tends to be pretty terse and testy these days; I think he got infused with some of Dick Cheney’s blood to keep him alive when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer – he’s been kind of on the dark side ever since).

So I was hanging out yesterday, and decided to play with my work-provided BlackBerry (which, sadly, is ATT like the iPhone). I tried holding it every which way – left hand, right hand, both hands, covering it completely, you name it – and I couldn’t get the signal to drop even one bar (let alone drop completely out). Then I tried my LG whatever it is that I never use anymore. Same thing (and that was in my basement). Then I played around with my wife’s Droid. Also, no signal loss. So, I dunno. One might conclude that – assuming there really is a problem with these phones (and for all I know there isn’t; it seems more than possible that a large percentage of iUsers are abnormally dense or something), the antenna design was less the optimal.

Speaking of less-than-optimal design, having only two days off a week really sucks. If I’m gonna get anything done, I guess I better get started.