Every once in awhile I post some complete "nerd" related tidbit and lose 70% of my readers for a day. This is that day. Because something really unique has cropped up, and as banal and pointless as it is, i just had to note it here. I filled up my iPhone. No... I mean, to the brim. To the brink. To the edge. So much so that if it were a glass of water you'd not be able to pick it up without spilling it. And that's just something I've never seen happen.
The way things work with iTunes and the iPhone is that you select what you want on it; Photos, Movies, Music, Addresses, Email, etc. Then when you connect, it syncs the data over and will either advise you in advance that you haven't enough room for everything you're loading on it, or it'll load it up but you'll always end up with some amount of unused space left over.
Except today. As the image above shows, for the first time that I can recall ever seeing, it's completely full, with no free space, and it didn't warn me in advance that I was trying to load too much stuff. And this never happens. There's no option to simply say "fill it to the brink" as there are on an iPod Shuffle, and even then, those end up with some free space as well. No, this is a complete random fluke occurrence, one I can't imagine I could reproduce if I tried.
You'd think I'd have better things to write about. I do, actually, I just don't have time right now to focus on the more personal posts, so I'm throwing this out.
I know... I'm such a geek.
But then again, perhaps not so much.
I was recently watching the Ricky Gervais HBO show "Extras" on DVD, and a specific scene had me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, because it seemed to be completely directed at me. I am a geek, yes, but I never really got into watching "Star Trek" as much as some of my far more "uber geek" friends. I've sat with them on numerous occasions and just glazed over while the sound of their voices echoed on about some TNG or Firefly or Battlestar Glattica related topic. So imagine my surprise and amusement at this scene with Patrick Stewart. Pay particular attention to the exchange in the very end.
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