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The mind of a post-High School student has many ideas... some of which are pointless yet constructive at the same time. Such as this... the "brainchild" of my friends and I. Two Estes model rocket engines fire simultaneously underneath the airplane once it's already airlifted. Or that's the idea, anyway.

What we've been having issues with is getting our airlift to function in tandem with our ignition system functioning. So far we airlift via bicycle or scooter... but we've never gotten the rockets to fire like this so far. On the other hand, when we've had it on the ground, and do a ROG (Roll Off Ground) takeoff... the ignition system works flawlessly. Other than... only one rocket fires and the other one has to be fired off later. Because of this, we've only managed to gain about a foot of altitude... fairly impressive regardless.

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Hey out there!

I recorded and sent this video to a bunch of my friends while out on a bike ride. My Nokia N82 really is the ultimate in phone technology.

The video is a bit scratchy and... poor quality... I recorded it with the front-facing camera designed for streaming. Plus, the MMS limitations cut it down even further.

My N82 returned from Nokia!

Sorry Nokia, I take back everything I was complaining about. Not only did you no-questions-asked accept my N82 to be repaired, but you tried to fix it relentlessly.

Then, when it turned out not to be fixable, you did the unthinkable. You sent me a new N82!!!!

There's a reason I chose your N82 over the iPhone. While you had a long turnaround time, you sent me a brand spanking new device. Not refurbished, not used, but brand new. You even sent me the 2GB MiniSD card that comes preinstalled in the N82 like mine had. You didn't sent it in a fancy box, or give me any of the other extras. But you did sent it via next-day shipping. No stickers like I asked for, but who cares?

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Where is my N82? I don't know. Nokia's had it for quite a long time now. Seriously, I wrote them an email and they said it was going to take 10 days for them to repair it. But it's taken a lot, lot, lot longer.

Let's analyze this page.

"... in the queue to be evaluated for repair." That right there literally means that they're still looking at it. And have yet to start repair. So what does this mean? I sure hope Nokia's actually working on it. If they're completely stuck, that's fine with me. Lemme know that so I can look forward to helping Nokia fix a problem unknown to them or be prepared for a brand new device.

"Turnaround time for in-warranty repairs is approximately 7-10 business days." Uh, Nokia... you received my phone on the 27th. Of last month. That means you've had it for 18 days. That's 8 more than your maximum posted estimate. And 8 more than you told me via email it would take.

Long story short... Nokia, I was more than happy when I heard your representative tell me to send my phone on in for repair. But I did not expect you to take this long. Sure, I asked you for stickers or posters along with my phone (I like Nokia stuff, so why not?). But if this is causing a major hold-up, just drop those. I miss my phone. And all the things I was hoping to have my phone for are passing me by. My last day of school. Darude rave. Graduation. Graduation Party. What's taking so long?

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I applaud Nokia for it's willingness to repair my N82. I thank them for their online status website. I do not, however, commend them on their management of this website. All that it has said for the past week is, "Your phone is in the que to be evaluated for repair." That means what, it's going to be looked at first? Or it'll be looked at and then fixed? I'm confused, Nokia.

But I've got high hopes. I'm expecting to see my phone when I return home in a few hours or sometime tomorrow. So while I am complaining, fear not. Things are okay.

First, a little background. Yesterday I activated unlimited texting on my cell phone. Not internet, but honestly, with my N82's WiFi it'd be unnecessary. (I'm still waiting for my N82 to come back)

While checking my texts on my phone while walking in the mall today, a pop-up appeared which asked if I wanted to accept an incoming file transfer. It was a java file, and I at first nearly pressed accept. I thought that perhaps one of my friends had sent it as an attachment to my phone. And then I realized- someone tried to send it via bluetooth! Someone is doing what I always used to do! Only exception being I sent notes, and this java file may have been a self-reproducing virus.

That's about it!

Here's a picture of my two favorites in the world... ice cream and my car!

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All of these were captured on the quite-old Intel CS630 digital camera. A very high-tech camera for it's time, it featured a VGA color sensor, manual-focus macro mode, an LCD display which indicated the number of pictures remaining, and a 2MB storage capacity. The next model up featured a 1.3mp sensor and a Xenon flash.

Nevertheless, this trusty camera records better pictures than most/every other camera phone with a VGA sensor, and does still better than many 1, 2, or even 3mp camera phones. Unfortunately it seems to have just bitten the dust, as the shutter button has become jammed for unknown reasons. Yet, it still fared quite well.

I'm the guy in the yellow on the red kayak, while my friend is on the green kayak. I didn't take pictures out in the surf, because it obviously would have ended the poor camera's life with the amount of rolling we did. And that would have made the second CS630 to end it's life due to sea water.

Rather odd... but I found someone else who wants to study Product Design. I met her at a bonfire tonight, and after she first said she was going to take next year off to do some traveling, the last thing I expected her to say was after that she intended to pursue Product Design.

It's all a bit odd. Everything is coming to a close in school, and yet lots of opportunities to pursue what I want now are opening up. It's like a deep meaning. Very odd.

Anyway, going surf kayaking tomorrow. Dunno if I'll get pictures, but I hope I do. We'll see.

Chris