All forms of humanity wait for the iPhone

You know those guys who write “First” in the comments on every blog before anyone else can respond? Well, they do the same thing in real life. In this case, Long Islander and “serial firstie” Greg Packer (shown here) will be the first person to score an iPhone at the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Packer has been interviewed as a man on the street more than 100 times, and has used his acute sense of when and where lines form to meet celebrities and former presidents, and get first dibs at the Ground Zero viewing platform.