What’s Wrong With This Picture?
This is my table at Batan Waru, a cafe near my home in Ubud, Bali. Notice I can only afford a hot chocolate. I go there for the Wi-Fi. But, what’s wrong with this picture? What seems out of order? Go ahead and look: I’ll wait. *~ waiting ~*
No, the spilt sugar is not what is wrong. Let me give you a hint: why is my Uber-Sexy BlackBerry taken apart? Why can you see its front AND its back cover AND its battery at the same time??? Because it got soaking wet!
Here’s the story:
I carry my BB in my hand everywhere I go. After two bottles of water, I had to go to the men’s room. To free my hands, I was holding BB between my chin and neck and DUNK!
BB fell into the toilet (the water was CLEAN, thank goodness)! I fished my phone out of the toilet and wiped it dry as fast as I could. I tried it out to see if it worked, but the screen now is blinking on and off, and the far 1/5th left side is entirely dim while the remaining 4/5ths was nice and bright. Water stains were all inside on the LCD. Now entire thing is blinking like a lightbulb that is about to die. When I tried the buttons, none did what they were supposed to: water has saturated BB’s inside.
After lots of CrackBerry.com forum searching, I found that the fastest and best way to dry it inside is to actually place it in a container of uncooked rice, which absorbs water even faster than silica gel!
So here it is, just before being covered over with rice, like King Tut’s tomb is covered by Egyptian sand….
But it will rise from it’s rice grave (probably in 1 or 2 days) like a vampire. Maybe I should name my BB “VampBerry” 
Don’t worry, everyone. This is not turning into a BlackBerry blog. It just seems a lot of drama these last few days has been involving my BlackBerry. I’m still thinking of a name for it. Any Ideas?
Are We Kryptonians?
Ok, if you read my last blog post, you realize just how much I love my Uber-Sexy BlackBerry Bold. I loved it enough to lick the thing clean of weeks old bacon grease! Now that’s love! How many of your “significant others” would lick you clean, even if you did taste like bacon?
Well I’ve upgraded the BlackBerry Messenger to version 5.0 (allows for chatting between blackberries, like yahoo messenger, only it’s directly BlackBerry to Blackberry). There is a new option with version 5 for adding new people: Barcodes! Above is the barcode of Kevin Michaluk, of Crackberry.com. Your current BlackBerry (with BBM 5.0, and a camera) can scan the barcode, and add him instantly. This saves you from giving out private info (our BlackBerry PIN numbers, which uniquely identifies our BlackBerry to the BlackBerry Universe) to people, yet allow them to add you anyway. VERY Cool.
But, I was thinking. This unique-to-your-blackberry barcode sort of reminds me of a complex version of Kryptonians’ (people from the Planet Krypton, home of Superman, dweebs!) family symbols! How cool would it be to pay RIM (maker of BlackBerry) to use the Superman Logo (which is really his family’s Kryptonian Symbol) as your own unique BlackBerry barcode? I’d better rush before Shaq beats me to it!
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My BlackBerry Tastes Like Bacon!
Even worse is the fact I’m a BlackBerry Abuser: I use it constantly and everywhere! I even use it when I have greasy, sticky fingers, which add to the trackball’s shrinking lifespan.
*~ The Crowd Goes “Boooooo! ~*
So, I have searched the forums of CrackBerry.com to find ways to clean the trackball. I have tried every way, short of using little screwdrivers to remove the ball. I tried water, alcohol on Q-Tips, everything! NO SUCCESS!
*~ The Crowd Goes “Oh Nooo!” ~*
Finally, I found some guy’s post, saying the #1 way he has found that works is to “lick” the trackball. Uh, OK. I read on, and saw a few people saying they tried it and it worked. Uh, OK. Now, I know I can be gullible sometimes. I was thinking: is this one of those times? I read on further and saw this super cute girl even tried it, and said “it worked for me!” SOLD!
So, I picked up the Bold, closed my eyes, and LICK. I licked it, turned it some, licked again, turned it again, over and over until entire trackball had a good coating of my spit. AND IT WORKED! After 10 minutes of licking, it was turning freely again! And, the trackball is back to its original pearl-white color (it was battleship gray)!
*~ The Crowd Goes “Huh You Licked It!? Uh, Hurrah!” ~*
(the crowd’s looking at each other in utter disbelief)
Strangely enough, it tasted like Bacon!