Random Thoughts 5/26/10

• HBO's "The Pacific" comes out on DVD on November 2. Please don't call until at least the morning of the 3rd.
• I'm almost done reading Eugene Sledge's book, With the Old Breed. It is easily one of the best war memoirs I've ever read. It will be on the required reading list for my boys when they're old enough to handle it. Wow.
  
• There are lots of rumors floating around about Verizon or even Sprint getting the iPhone sooner rather than later. The new fourth generation iPhone is expected to be released in coming weeks and the current iPhone 3Gs dropped in price at Walmart to $99.
• This is why "Lost" was the most overrated show in a long, long time. I can't stand it when writers make stuff up as they go along, writing without a plan, and then leave the audience hanging with dozens of unanswered questions.
• Has anybody noticed that North and South Korea are about to go to war and that a South Korean ship was torpedoed by the North, killing 46 sailors?
  
• President Obama is seeing his lowest approval numbers ever. His approval index rating is -20 and his job approval is down to 42%. Here's the report from Rasmussen.
  
• Finally, here's a great video paying homage to the Get a Mac ad campaign that gave us, "I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC."