Music store open at Starbucks (+ the Luncheon update)

Before the Luncheon today for the GTCF (more on that in a second) I was getting some coffee at the Starbucks at 15th & Commerce and tried out my iPhone to see if it allowed for wireless downloading of songs to my iPhone.

Amazingly, it did. I was looking for a Starbucks button to show up on the home screen, but it actually shows up inside the wireless iTunes store. It's kinda creepy. You look at the screen and it shows you what's playing, what just played, etc. I felt like my phone shouldn't know that. To test it out, I bought the Immigrant Song by Zeppelin, and learned that buying music wirelessly off the iPhone is just as addictive at Starbucks as it is with any other wireless connection. They make it fun. The song jumps into your shopping cart and it's just way too easy.

As to the Luncheon, it was pretty great. Daniel Blue performed OK Tacoma with pictures from the 365 Days project on the screens behind him. Daniel received a well-deserved standing ovation. Someone told me afterward "he had the room," and he was right on. I also enjoyed John Graham, who told interesting stories about the Foreign Service and a harrowing story of being stranded on a lifeboat in the Northern Pacific (all true stories by the way).

I would also like to link to his organization, The Giraffe Project, which encourages people to stick their neck out.

Good day, I'd say.