This past weekend I popped into my local Apple store to ask a few questions about the new iPhone. Particularly that if I wanted to get my hands on one, would I have to come early and stand in line. Here is what they told me:

Each store is still uncertain as to how many they will actually have. So they could all get a few metric tons of iPhones, or fewer. They don’t know yet and won’t know until the middle of next week.

Whether or not they have enough iPhones to make it the whole weekend has yet to be seen. That depends on demand. But the Apple store employee I talked to (who was there for the first iPhone launch) said they may not get their next iPhone shipment until the next week. So if they all sell out on Friday, it could be a few days before they get more in.

For the last iPhone launch, they did not go on sale until 6PM EST. The Apple stores closed at 4PM, then reopened at 6 and only sold iPhones after 6. They do not know yet if that will be the same, or if they will be available as soon as doors open.

UPDATE: new rumor, reported by MacLife, reports that Apple is preferring putting them on sale at 8AM. I suspect that means a few people will be taking sick days on July 11 to stand in line.

James and I might be among the line-standers. If anyone is interested in forming a small posse to stand together at the Columbus, Ohio store, let us know. We can have a Llama’s met up.

This weekend I traveled up to Cleveland with my 8-year old son to see a Cleveland Indians game. While sitting there watching the Tribe get trounced by the Reds, I wondered if there will come a day when ballpark seats will need to be made 8-inches wider. I couldn’t help but notice how many people there were not just over-weight, but grossly so.

At what point will we stop encouraging people to loose weight overall and just start making everything bigger?

I will say though, that the irony was not lost on me seeing some rather obese women wearing Indians jersey’s that said “SIZEMORE” on the back.

A U.S. House Resolution that experts say amounts to an act of war against Iran is quickly gaining speed. H.CON.RES 362 calls on the president to stop shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran and to impose “stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran.”

The resolution has attracted more than 205 cosponsors despite the fact that the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate reports: “We judge with moderate confidence that the earliest possible date Iran would be technically capable of producing enough HEU for a weapon is late 2009, but that this is very unlikely.”

Should we be at all surprised that this administration and Congress are once again ignoring key elements of an intelligence report?