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06/23/2009, 08:53 AM
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XBoss, I am very, very real. It is kind of funny though that we have all grown so cynical that we think a satisfied customer must also work for the company!
No, I have received no payment from Palm or any advertising agency at all, though - now you mention it...
Ok, so sarcasm alert (and I mean this in a light-hearted way, not in a mean way)
Palm did contact me back in 2001 (when I started michaelbunker.com) with a brilliant ploy to create a mythical happy customer sometime in the far future. I actually think it was a far-sighted time-traveling Palm exec. He then had me create literally hundreds of hours of Biblical Agrarian sermons and lessons and in 2005 he convinced me to start BiblicalAgrarianism.com because he had predicted the advent of the Christian Agrarian Separatist movement. Palm is on the ball. Some would say they are "palm readers". Also in 2005 he had me move into this simple Agrarian Off-Grid community in order to cement and solidify my future story! On the way, in order to be able to prove the bona-fides of the story, the Palm time-traveler executive also had me say some very controversial things, and created in me the perfect outsider, hostile to most advanced technology and politically and philosophically antithetical to most of what even Palm believes. The plan was perfect. The manchurian spokesman plan was a huge success!
Ok, so that was just all in fun. Anyway, I hope those of you who own a Pre are enjoying it. For those having battery problems, do some research on tweaking the battery usage. One that helped me a lot was that there was an automatic assumption that Wi-Fi sucked the battery big time. Well, that isn't particularly true. If the Wi-Fi signal is stronger than the Sprint signal, you will do much better to leave the Wi-Fi on. Low signal is a major battery drain. That tip helped me immensely since a good portion of my day I am in or near our cabin where the Wi-Fi router is located.
Oh, and I had a heifer die overnight (a commercial cow, not one of our pure Longhorns) , which was also part of the plan to give me street cred in my advocacy of the Palm Pre.
Hope y'all are doing well,
Michael (Salty Off-Grid)
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