It all starts with having a love for technology of course. I pre-ordered my G1 and had it before stores did. It remember how excited I was when I first got it; it’s one of the only phones that I am still excited over even after having it for a year. So back to the beginning. You download apps, you discover just how cool Android really is as an OS. Then you hear about OTA (Over The Air) updates with pastry names like Cupcake, Donut, and Eclair. All code talk of course. After a while you get bored of the way it looks so you want to change the theme. Luckily with Android you can do this. After a few months of messing with the various theme apps on the Market, you get bored again. For most the cycle stops here.

For folks like me it continues, and it only get’s worse. You then find out about this “root” thing and investigate further. You find out that there is some dude named Cyanogen who is making after-market firmware with cool features that the stock G1 just doesn’t have, but you have to have “root” to have it.

A year later you find yourself sitting at your desk, at midnight, with your phone connected to your computer typing commands in some ancient command prompt that you probably have never messed with before. You root your phone, you have cool features, and now what? You find you you can alter other things and add real themes that don’t slow the phone down. You partiton your SD card, toggling settings like Compcache, and you start modifying the boot loader images to reflect images of Androids urinating on little apples.

Does it stop there?

What’s next?