What do you like best about the fair?
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iWant my iPhone?
Apple’s iPhone went on sale this morning. The first person in the world to buy an iPhone was 22-year-old Auckland student Jonny Gladwell, who queued in freezing temperatures in New Zealand for around 60 hours to be the first to buy it, at a minute past midnight over there.
Locally, the Apple store at Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City had quite the crowd this morning. So did the AT&T stores on Memorial Road in NW Oklahoma City. You can purchase the iPhone from the Apple stores or from the AT&T stores.
Or online at Apple.com, which had a few malfunctions this week with its new data synching service. Some users were denied access to their accounts as Apple transitioned from .Mac to the MobieMe service.
Second thing to know. You should really not like this guy (I’m very much kidding). Or at least really, really envy him. He’s Sam Presti, the 31 year old General Manager of the Oklahoma City NBA franchise. He impressed The Oklahoman’s Mike Sherman and Berry Tramel as he spoke to the local media for the first time. You can watch Sherm and Tram’s take and the entire press conference, online at NewsOK.
And finally, RockLahoma continues in Pryor, Oklahoma. Imagine yourself surrounded by thousands of your sweatiest, perhaps dirtiest friends, all hand banging to some classic 80s hair metal. Mmmm….. The five day event continues through Sunday. The Oklahoman’s Matthew Strasen filed these photos from the festival. Looks like fun. Today’s headliners are Triumph, Extreme, Night Ranger and Living Colour. Talk about your Cult of Personality.
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Cinco de Mayo in Oklahoma
Looking for something to do Monday for Cinco de Mayo? Check out Wimgo.com, enter keyword cinco or cinco de mayo.
One Night in… Edna’s
We had Burns Hargis, longtime OKC businessman and host of Flashpoint, in our studios this week. Ed Kelley interviewed Burns about his role in the Creativity Project. And we asked Burns to tape a segment for wimgo.com about what he loves about Oklahoma.
Burns will soon become president of Oklahoma State University. He said during his taping for wimgo that his favorite place in Oklahoma was OSU. And he backed that up by saying it wasn’t the campus or a favorite hang out spot. Burns explained that college is about the experience, the time spent learning and being with your peers. He used the example of the hot dog stand, or any place you frequent during a certain period of your life. He said you talk the hot dog stand up to your friends, and when they go there it’s not that great.
Well you never went there for the hot dogs, Burns said. You went there because your friends did. Or because you had a special memory of the place. That was his explanation of his alma mater, OSU.
So growing up in OKC, I went to school at Oklahoma City University. I spent several years there getting my undergrad and postgrad pieces of paper.
One of the hang-outs the OCU kids frequented was Edna’s.
Talk about your hot dog stands.
Yes Edna’s, home of the cold beer and dollar bills on the walls. It’s an Oklahoma City fixture. Has been for 19 years. Edna is celebrating her 19th anniversary this Thursday.
I never spent much time there. In fact I’ve only been there 2-3 times and that counts this past Friday night. Place hasn’t changed and that’s what the usuals expect.
But some places need only experienced a few times for the legend to grow. Everyone has their hot dog stand stories.
