Izak

May 6, 2013

My Retirement From Years Of BlackBerrys. Why I Made The Switch?

5/06/2013 A Couple Unfair Things, BBB, Good Points

Truth is, BlackBerry will always be home to my fingertips...

After getting my new iPhone 5 a week ago, i finally made the call to my phone provider and officially turned off my blackberry device.

Unlike you, this 21 year old was the first kid in his entire school to have a cellphone, YES i said school.

Of course i was 11 at the time and it was early 2000's, and i got it because of transportation reasons, and (basically) because my head got shoved in a toilet (a swirly).

My main phone was an LG at the time, but my father's company started playing around with cell phones and at home we had the BlackBerry 5810 and 7250.

In 2007, after playing with my 8700 at home (at some times), blackberry made there biggest impression in the cellphone and tech world and released the 8330; It had a camera, It had Facebook, and had emails. And now i had one. And soon everyone wanted one.

My journey would go from there to the 8800 -> 9000 -> 8520 -> 9700 -> 9650 -> 9900.
I remember just a few years ago when people would ask me "how do you have 200 BBM Pins?!"

Why i switched?
Cellphones have come far from their original purpose like many things do. Recently they went away with cellphones and now smartphones rule the Mobile world (as we have seen with sprint and nextel).

I switched because my reasons for having a phone did so. My central way of communication in high school was email and it still is. However now that i am older, in college and working, the best way to get my email is on a computer and the best way to enjoy my new hobbies and way of communication is social media and my "marketing image", where 24 hour access is really only on the iPhone. This is only met on the iPhone and the Android series.

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, is all at hand on the Apple and Google devices.

Blackberry needs to find what people can find attractive and portray that in their new BlackBerry's They did it before and they can do it again (yes remember the Palm Pilot...that they destroyed).

Why J.C. Penney Joins Circuit City, Twinkies, Block Buster And Lebron James' Cavaliers

4/09/2013 BBB, Good Points

The titles sounds great but JCP as come to be known, is more like Lebron James' 2006-2010's Cleveland Cavaliers than people may realize...

Years ago when my life was in a different world, my family and i would go shopping twice a year. One before school, and one mid spring. Where did we go shopping you ask? J.C. Penney of course.

I always knew that i was better than J.C. Penney at the time, because i simply never was able to find a anything to wear (eventually when i was older i'd realize that my fashion instincts knew that most of what they sold was low key and cheep material). But needless to say my family went there and so did many others in our boat so to say.

It wasn't until i started attending school on Long Island that my mother a born and BREAD Bronx women would have realized that there was more to the mall than J.C. Penney.

It's like she is still saying "I can't believe what beautiful things Target sells". And so true it was, Target did make shifts and improve, but as Target and other big brand clothing companies would shift their audience and customers J.C. Penney stayed neutral.

In the past 2 years J.C. Penney has evolved as a company and as a brand name, with the obtaining of JCP.com, their new go to name JCP and their new logo; it all just shows the devotion and movements towards a marketing revive-meant.

but...

It was not until 5 Championship like teams did Lebron James realize that a NBA championship in Cleveland was not going to happen. Now we can argue what they should or should have not done but the fact is that there was a cast of outcasts, yet King James knew how to put it together. So why didn't they win? My answer is Mike Brown is a bad Coach for the NBA. That's it, if they had replaced Brown their hopes for a Ring would have happened.

So my answer is simple, JCP has taken all the right steps, but if success still isn't shown, ...well then it lay in the eyes of the Leader.

Google Voice Gets Caught With High Price Vanities

4/07/2013 A Couple Unfair Things, BBB

I was notified that my google voice number was in need for refreshment. According to Google's policy, after 60 days of deactivating your Google Voice number you are entitled to getting a new one. So as usual i joked around with searching for a vanity phone number.
"The 212 area code is arguably the most-recognized American area code. Among some Manhattanites, it is considered a prestigious code, far more desirable than the newer 646 code, as parodied in "The Maid" episode of Seinfeld which aired before the new area code was actually enacted." (this from Wikipedia.com)
So i put in my search expecting no results, but something happened...

As you can see there are not 1 but 2, 212 area code vanity phone numbers available. These numbers go for a minimum of $1,000.00 and i just couldn't believe it. But my expectations were met, when it seemed that there was a block on this number and no one is able to obtain it.

So what are the reasons?

1. Google Voice is testing there system and wants to see, how many clients are interested in Vanity phone numbers.

Why? This way they'd be able to charge a price to purchase it, plus people would actually use it instead of having their Google Voice number forwarded.

2. Google Voice seems perfect, perhaps this is just a system database error.

Why? so the question for number 2 lies...Why can't anyone get it? Google must have a limitation to obtaining numbers of such vanities.

We know this because we tested it again...

As The Days Go By

3/12/2013 IJ's Funny Bunnys

It's about 1:36am March 13. At approximately 6:36pm March 12- 7 hours ago, i had a great blog for you. However; i forgot what it was. So here are some helpful tips of the day.
1. Follow me on twitter @Izak
2. izakradio.com is almost finished!
3. Listen to this guy on 710 WOR radio, 10am-12pm weekdays, i forgot his name.
4. Did you ever have rice cakes and avacado?????
5. Oh! his name is Mark Simone
6. If you didn't do #4 you are missing out on life.
7. We had Officer elections at work...Yay
8. GO SEE "OZ"!!!
9. Izak Rocks
10. I wonder if i can get sender to read this crap.

Your Mayor Salutes You

3/06/2013 IJ's Funny Bunnys

My fellow Seforim Salers,

It has been the deepest of honors serving as your Mayor for the 2013 Seforim Sale. When i was asked if i would consider appointment to the post, i currently had 2 other options on the table. It was either Hosting the Oscars with my pal Seth, or lip-singing with my ex at the inauguration. The board and our CEO yehuda kaminer first went to the brightest Seforim saler and asked him if he'd be interested in being the Mayor of the Seforim sale and he had to decline. Afterwords CEO kaminer, approached the best-looking Seforim saler and asked him to be the Mayor, and he also turned it down. After the 3rd time of asking me i decided to accept his offer and have you have the Honor of me serving you as the Mayor.
To the Board, thank you for the gorgeous sweaters.
To the setland people thank you for making sets of things.
To our floor managers thank you for managing the floor, although it was quite dusty.
To our cashiers, thank you for being so polite and growing our emailing list to over 8 people.
To the people in the back thank you for eating all the gourmet food and covering it up with snacks from the shook.
To our tech guys thank you for building formulas.
And finally thank you to our section associates for coming every day after the sale ends to clean up.
Please feel free to follow me on twitter @Izak and on facebook, /IzakHeldJr.

Yours Truly,

Mayor Held
"Bringing smiles to every Sale'ers face"

Happy Purim From Yours Truly

2/22/2013

Happy Purim From Yours Truly

When a female is knighted she is a Dame, example is Anne Baker is knighted she is called Dame Anne Baker.

The wife of a Knight or Baronet , example Sir John Munro is called Lady Munro, her first name is never used. When together they are Sir John and Lady Munro, when she alone she is Lady Munro, however if there are two Lady Munros she is called Lady John Munro!

Did this happen to you on purim?