[Today’s run: rest day]
We have hit a little slippery spot in our otherwise slow ease toward modernity.
Yesterday my wife said she couldn’t wait any longer and that I had to have my birthday present. My birthday is in November, so only two more months. But sometimes a guy has to do what his wife tells him to do.
So she hauled out an Acer notepad computer which came upon the local for-sale scene at a good price. I was able to wipe out the very few things that the former owner had initialized. And I got the latest Android software downloaded. And I’ve been playing with it quite a bit.
(Right now I’m back at my normal keyboard.)
Keyboard is an issue. Blog posting didn’t work so well. Maybe there is a better way to do it. Voice recognition actually worked pretty well. Maybe there is a handwriting thingy in there that I haven’t found yet.
I like the gizmo-ness of the thing. It has an internal GPS and camera and you can download lots of apps for it. And it works as a “reader” like a kindle also.
I think I’m going to like it. It works really well for browsing and for reading email. I don’t like the Facebook app as much as using regular browser-based Facebook.
I think it has a lot of features that I don’t know about or understand yet.
Also yesterday we bought a 2nd controller for my son’s PS-3. He and I have played X-Box together quite a bit. But I don’t know PS-3. He transitioned from PS-3 a couple of years ago and I hadn’t played two-player video shoot-em-up with him in a long time. I’m learning the PS-3 buttons for the game he is playing these days.
Here’s another picture from the Iowa State Fair: steer judging.
