Now that I'm 30... My 500th post.

Coincidentally, this is my first post as a 30 year old and my 500th post overall.

So I woke up with weird stomach problems... not really sickness, just weird stomach problems... at around 6 AM, and couldn't really fall back asleep. Maybe this is the norm for people in their 30s. Because I'm obivously a completely different person than I was when I went to bed last night, with a different first digit in my age.

Today, I thought I'd google the phrase "now that I'm 30" and see what I come up with.

Here are some samples...

**** Now That I'm 30 (My Top CDs)
**** Music I Live By Now That I'm 30

So apparently, I'll continue listening to music in my 30s. Good to know.

**** I could have said that people will respect me now that I'm 30. Who am I crapping, though?

I agree with that sentiment, and am glad I'm still allowed to use the word "crapping."

**** Also, I’ve decided that, clearly, the universe was trying to point out to me that now that I’m 30.

Hmmm.... I don't really believe the universe a) cares much about me and b) has fingers.

**** It was just about seeing things differently now that I'm 30: slow down, enjoy the moment.

Yep. As Warren Zevon said, "Enjoy Every Sandwich." Incidentally, congrats, Warren, on being the first person I've quoted in my 30s.

**** Now that I'm 30, I feel that I'm taking more risks as well.

Hmmmm... Haven't really done too much risky yet, but I haven't been 30 for even half a day yet.

**** Now that I'm 30+lbs past that I struggle between balancing what's really important, my family, and accepting what I can do for myself as enough.
**** Now that I'm 30 years back from Vietnam, that was halfway back to now.

These two don't apply to me so much.

**** Now that I’m 30, I feel even more concerned about what’s going to happen.

I 'm actually pretty sure there's a guy who talks to everyone the day they turn 30 and tells them everything that's going to happen. I'm expect him to be there at my 3:00 meeting.

**** Am I a curmudgeon, now that I'm 30?

That is for you, the reader, to decide.

Google Image Search

Thanks to Google Image Search, the last week has been very big for my blog....

In fact, it's the biggest week by page views in the history of my blog, and yesterday was the biggest the blog has ever seen.

For whatever reason, if you did a search for "Spiderman" on Google Image Search in the last week, this image is among those you would have seen on the first page of search results. Alas, today it is nowhere to be found (and I looked through the first 20 or so pages of results...)

However, all of a sudden, people are finding my page through Google Image Searches for Kiss. At the moment, I'm the second search result on the first page. Let's see how long this lasts.

Live Free and Die Hard

My official verdict... fun and worth the time. Probably the best of the series other than the originial. About 5 minutes of watching Die Hard made me feel bad for ever watching 24. John McClane could break Jack Bauer like a twig.

My Inevitable iPhone Post

I was walking by the Cingular (We used to be AT&T and now we're AT&T again, or something) store...

So I tested the iPhone out.

The good...

It is admittedly slick.

I like the idea of Youtube and a fairly slick weather thingy and map thingy that you can take anywhere.

The bad...

I have regular human size fingers, so I made like 50 mistakes just trying to type a URL. Granted, I've never had a blackberry or anything, so some people might be more used to this, but I found it incredibly annoying.

Price (duh). $500 or $600 is absolutely ridiculous. I could see why people would pay $300 or $400 (I still wouldn't be one of them), but $500 or $600 is way too much.

Only 4 GB or 8 GB of music for that price... If I were spending that I'd want at least 20GB like a low end, full size iPod.

It's still Apple, so all of my criticisms of iPods still apply, particularly the reliance on iTunes and annoyance of synching, lack of "drag and drop" capability, and all that stuff.

I didn't have a chance to try it as an actual phone, so no comments on that part.