Ouch. $200 bones less than launch. What surprises me most is that I didn’t get suckered into buying one at $599 when it first came out.

The First Rule of Knit Club is…, originally uploaded by Eleven 22.

You don’t talk about Knit Club. The second rule of Knit club is… You don’t fucking talk about Knit Club. And the last rule is… if this is your first night at Knit Club — You have to Knit!

Okay, so I am no Brad Pitt (its the hair right? LOL). What the hell am I doing you might be wondering. Knitting of all things. The next question is logically — Why?

One word: marytree. Yup, our favorite artistic free spirit is a knitter, and at one of the parties we attended we began to talk about her knitting projects.

She said she could teach me to knit, I scoffed. Me? Knit? Why don’t you just cut my balls off I thought. But, she had planted a seed in me head, and the ball of yarn just kept growing.

It came to a head when Karin dragged us along to a book signing, as Maverick, Betty and I circled in the back, perusing the books I came to the craft section, and as luck would have it, a book on how to knit.

I walked by it a few times, finally uttered something under my breath and decided to buy it. You couldn’t have seen two more surprised looks when Karin and her mom saw what I had bought walking to our cars.

So when Karin was away at her conference, and the three boys I was watching were slowing driving me insane, I took them to Michael to get some sort of craft item to keep them busy, and while I was there, bought some yarn and needles.

The first yarn and needles I bought were not as I would soon find out, rank amateur friendly. So I went back and did what any good man would do, bought bigger. Way bigger. Much better results.

So what you see here is the end of my first roll of yarn, its going to be a scarf for Karin, a small token if you will to pave the road toward my iPhone purchase.

The iPhone is without question a sexy status symbol that will sell out in record time and be the “must have” item for the social elite and those wishing to emulate or be elite themselves.

The iPhone is not a radical new device, rather I would say its a conglomeration of existing technologies into a stylish and well polished package that is both appealing and user friendly at the same time — AKA uniquely Apple.

For Example…

• Lack of Buttons / Screen Touchpad - while not seen in phones yet, its something I have had for a long time on my Sony Cybershot digital camera.
• Web - look at any number of handhelds, from the Treo to IPAQ, they have web. The days of WAPI are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
• Music - Plenty of existing MP3 phones out there, some from Motorola are iTunes phones.
• Email - See Blackberry

Where I think the iPhone will flourish eventually is third party development. They are encouraging application development, unlike Sony which moves with every turn to crush home brew development for the PSP (how clueless can Sony be?).

Personally I just don’t find the iPhone to be something I have to have. I am already connected enough at work and home, I cam finding more and more that I cherish the time when I can be disconnected from technology. Yeah, I am getting old.