{"id":2960,"date":"2012-09-16T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2012-09-16T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T22:35:36","slug":"figuring-out-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Figuring out stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: rest day]<\/p>\n

We have hit a little slippery spot in our otherwise slow ease toward modernity.<\/p>\n

Yesterday my wife said she couldn’t wait any longer and that I had to have my birthday present.\u00a0 My birthday is in November, so only two more months.\u00a0 But sometimes a guy has to do what his wife tells him to do.<\/p>\n

So she hauled out an Acer notepad computer which came upon the local for-sale scene at a good price.\u00a0 I was able to wipe out the very few things that the former owner had initialized.\u00a0 And I got the latest Android software downloaded.\u00a0 And I’ve been playing with it quite a bit.<\/p>\n

(Right now I’m back at my normal keyboard.)<\/p>\n

Keyboard is an issue.\u00a0 Blog posting didn’t work so well.\u00a0 Maybe there is a better way to do it.\u00a0 Voice recognition actually worked pretty well.\u00a0 Maybe there is a handwriting thingy in there that I haven’t found yet.<\/p>\n

I like the gizmo-ness of the thing.\u00a0 It has an internal GPS and camera and you can download lots of apps for it.\u00a0 And it works as a “reader” like a kindle also.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to like it.\u00a0 It works really well for browsing and for reading email.\u00a0 I don’t like the Facebook app as much as using regular browser-based Facebook.<\/p>\n

I think it has a lot of features that I don’t know about or understand yet.<\/p>\n

Also yesterday we bought a 2nd controller for my son’s PS-3.\u00a0 He and I have played X-Box together quite a bit.\u00a0 But I don’t know PS-3.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0 learning the PS-3 buttons for the game he is playing these days.<\/p>\n

Here’s another picture from the Iowa State Fair: steer judging.<\/p>\n

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