Ever purchase a shirt.. wash it.. wear it.. then realize that you left one of the little plastic things in the collar?

I did. And, it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. I started bending it.. and soon had an “S” type shape. Rather than throw it away, I kept it sitting on my desk. Back to work I went.

A few hours later I was ready to watch the latest episode of Diggnation. I synced my iPhone, touched the iPod icon, touched “videos”, and then selected Diggnation. As it started playing, I went to prop it up against my mac mini and wedge it in with my dock, like I usually do. At that moment, a little piece of white plastic caught my eye. There it was, shining in the sun florescent light, like a gift from the heavens! I grabbed my iPhone, and as if transfixed by the blessing, slowly and carefully set it in the little white plastic thing. It was a moment of magic, like a kid on Christmas morning, I had the widest grin on my face. I now use it daily, as my little iPhone stand. Have a look:

BONUS: the white matches the Apple supplied dock. hells-yea! Oh, and sorry for the blurry pic, the iPhone doesn’t handle close-ups too well!

Sketch of my bike using my iPhone, originally uploaded by kenseals.

There’s a 3rd party app available for the iphone/itouch if you have it hacked called “Sketches”. Took 5 minutes at lunch and decided to see if I could actually make a legit sketch with it. I found it was difficult to make precise strokes, so I used that to my advantage. The squiggly lines and inaccurate strokes were great for portraying movement. I think they really brought this sketch of my Harley to life.. woot!

Maybe I’ll start a weekly sketch using this app.. would be cool to see how good I can get with it if I spent more than 5 minutes on a sketch. Hmph.. there’s some food for though.