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“The Five Stages of Acquisition, according to the Ferengi, are infatuation, justification, appropriation, obsession, and resale.”

-Harry Kim [memory-alpha.org], 2376

So.. What I really want is a cigarette. Except it isn’t even so much the tobacco or nicotine that I want - I just want to smoke something. So I figured I would write about all of the good things about being a smoker.

Well, first of all…

Ok fine, so I can’t think of a big long list of positive things about smoking. I think my favorite thing about having a cigarette was that it made me no longer want to have a cigarette. Yeah.

So, the bad things:
Smoking makes it difficult to breathe.
You risk setting your house on fire by not extinguishing a cigarette properly or emptying an ashtray before it is completely out.
Smoking makes your house (and you) smell like smoking. This one never bothered me as a smoker - I couldn’t smoke a damn thing - but now, if someone smokes in their house, you know it.
Health risks: including cancer, hart problems, but also including just making it in general difficult to breathe. Which sucks. Big time. Breathing is one of your basics - hell, perhaps the single most basic basic. And these days I am breathing better (though it did get worse before it got better.)
The expense. Can you believe that cigarettes are damn near $5 a pack these days? Hell, I remember buying (my first pack of) cigarettes, from a machine no less, for $1.25. Get off my lawn.
The chance of burning a hole in the seat, floor, roof of my sharp automobile.
It always used to piss me off when it came to eating out. In Ohio, you can’t smoke inside restaurants or even bars anymore. And that used to really piss me off. I still think smokers should be allowed to smoke in bars, but I no longer have to be inconvenienced by this.

All of that said, what was it that caused me to decide to quit? Was it the inconvenience? The expense? The risks of burning things? The health risks?

Yeah. I think so.

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iPhone 3GS Coming June 19^th to an Apple Store near you.

New features include:
Video camera
Zoom functionality
Manual focus selection
Longer battery life

And just like previous generations, a “version with 16 gigabytes of storage will sell for $199 with a new contract; one with a 32-gigabyte storage capacity will cost $299.”

Anyone out there remember ON-TV? It was a channel of movies, sports, concerts that played on local channel 64 (Cincinnati) after — 9pm maybe? I remember the channel 64 logo morphing into the ON-TV logo - the first place I ever saw a video morph - at 9 or whenever it was, and from that point on into the night, the channel was ON-TV. I can’t say I remember ever watching anything on it - I think I was too young at the time. Appears ON-TV launched in 1977 on channel 64, which was then WBTI.