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susandennisNew gadget/tech season is getting under way. I think I'm pretty safe from a new phone. The leaks about the new ones from Google don't really show me anything I'm interested in and I like my current Google one and I have a perfectly viable backup in case something happens to it. So I think I may be stable for now, phonewise...
But... chromebook wise? I could be temped. By a stylus, maybe. If there's stylus storage onboard and it has a couple of other sexy features and it does not weigh a metric ton. My current chromebook is still in excellent shape but it has, from time to time, shown some signs of age and it is not repairable. So... there's clearly a vulnerability there should something tres cool hit the market.
The real softspace, however is in the wrist real estate. I'm already my fitness tracker's bitch but... what if that fitness tracker also showed me swim details, while I was swimming? And gave me date and time. My Pebble watch did all that but it took at lot of hand holding and while the software (native and apps) was always close, it never quite got there. Plus it was big and heavy. What if something not so big and not so heavy with better software that still did it all arrived on the market? I think I'd have to bite. For a long time, I was locked into the Misfit world because I had such a long streak with their tracking but I'm over that. I'll drop Fitbit in a heartbeat if somebody offers me better.
Garmin has something coming out tomorrow but I think it's too big. Fitbit has something coming out soon so maybe? And those are just two that I know about, I know there are more just weeks away. I'm ready.
Meanwhile back here on planet real life, I'm getting ready to go fire up the sewing machine. My new pattern arrived yesterday and I cut out the pieces to test. It's a shirt with an unusual neck. I'm making it out of trash fabric and only making it from the elbows up. I want to see if I can get it over my head and if the shoulders fit. The pattern is for a jacket and I'm faking it into a shirt. Or at least I'm gonna try.
But, first, apparently, there is a cat who is thinking it's time for some food.
But... chromebook wise? I could be temped. By a stylus, maybe. If there's stylus storage onboard and it has a couple of other sexy features and it does not weigh a metric ton. My current chromebook is still in excellent shape but it has, from time to time, shown some signs of age and it is not repairable. So... there's clearly a vulnerability there should something tres cool hit the market.
The real softspace, however is in the wrist real estate. I'm already my fitness tracker's bitch but... what if that fitness tracker also showed me swim details, while I was swimming? And gave me date and time. My Pebble watch did all that but it took at lot of hand holding and while the software (native and apps) was always close, it never quite got there. Plus it was big and heavy. What if something not so big and not so heavy with better software that still did it all arrived on the market? I think I'd have to bite. For a long time, I was locked into the Misfit world because I had such a long streak with their tracking but I'm over that. I'll drop Fitbit in a heartbeat if somebody offers me better.
Garmin has something coming out tomorrow but I think it's too big. Fitbit has something coming out soon so maybe? And those are just two that I know about, I know there are more just weeks away. I'm ready.
Meanwhile back here on planet real life, I'm getting ready to go fire up the sewing machine. My new pattern arrived yesterday and I cut out the pieces to test. It's a shirt with an unusual neck. I'm making it out of trash fabric and only making it from the elbows up. I want to see if I can get it over my head and if the shoulders fit. The pattern is for a jacket and I'm faking it into a shirt. Or at least I'm gonna try.
But, first, apparently, there is a cat who is thinking it's time for some food.
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Date: 2017-08-15 04:33 pm (UTC)Our grandfather, when he retired from the railroad, was absolutely thrilled to be able to wear a wristwatch instead of his Ball Railroad pocket watch. I reversed the trend. Among the first things I did when I got a pager and then a phone after the Navy was to lose my wrist watch.
I think I'm going to have to have an implant.
Ages ago I got a Chromebook, one of the first, I think by Samsung. It has sat in a case for years never used but occasionally checked. Still ticking. When Alex was out here I realized that I had a home for it. He reconfigured it and gave it to Lauranna, her first computer. The damn Chromebooks last forever.
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Date: 2017-08-15 04:42 pm (UTC)I am really picky about what goes on my wrist. No buckle, nothing that can catch on anything, smaller than a car steering wheel... but otherwise, I'm cool with it.
My 2015 Pixel has occasional keyboard issues... like there's something stuck in there. I cannot imagine what since I've spent two years eating at least two meals a day hovered over the keyboard but whatever.
I'm open to a non chromebook but not very open. I just love the simplicty, and, really, most of the time, it's all I need.
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Date: 2017-08-16 12:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-08-16 12:50 am (UTC)