7 posts tagged “mobile”
This is the view I'm enjoying while waiting for the bus to downtown Portland. Not bad, eh?
When we arrived at friend Mari's house to mind the kitties for a few days, the first thing that the adorable Ming did after I set my bag & coat down was to delve into the small dark space thus created.
Show us the first thing you see in the morning.
Submitted by The Gaping MAW.
What you see above is the HP 620Lx "palmtop computer," a relic of the days when Microsoft thought people wanted really, really small (yet still bulky) computers instead of true handheld convergence devices. It's the first nifty toy Entercom bought for me when I took the job as the "computer guy," back in the old Kelly building. It runs Windows CE 2.0, doesn't work with any current software because of the horizontal aspect, and it barely supports a few models of PCMCIA modem not to mention only a couple of network cards. (Wireless is right out.) With an $800 original price tag and another couple hundred bucks' worth of upgrades (ROM upgrade for the OS and the extended-life battery) it made for a somewhat valuable piece of equipment.
Nowadays I use its five possible alarm settings to get me out of bed at the appropriate time for whatever the day's plans entail. Oh, and sometimes I get to use the Pocket Excel spreadsheet I created to keep score in a game of Scrabble. Isn't that neat?
And yes: That's my fuzzy reflection you see in that fuzzy cameraphone image. It's not exactly Mirror Project, is it?
Not only is the ticket dispenser down, it's also emitting a rather loud and high-pitched tone. Lovely! Just part of my oh-so-lovely day... The train comes in 15 minutes. *sigh*
How nice: A TriMet vehicle sitting unoccupied, with the motor running, in a handicapped spot, for over fifteen minutes. Your fare dollars at work, eh?
(Edited to remove Verizon SMS cruft, and to point out that the vehicle in question is one of those gas-guzzling big pickups with the loud motors. Is this the image that the public transit folks should really be portraying?)
Doesn't that look yummy?
The above image and text is what I sent from my phone a minute ago (as I write this). There was a bunch of additional text as well, probably appended by Verizon. I need to look into ways to deal with that, but as long as I can redact the posting after I get to a computer I suppose it'll have to do for now.
Not that I need a "moblog" all that badly, but I figure this is as good an excuse as any to play around with this Vox thing.
Oh, yeah. That's a Voodoo Donut, chocolate with Cocoa Puffs on top, acquired and enjoyed at Backspace, downtown Portland, back in early April. (I remember the event because it was the first PortlandBloggers meet after I lost my job.)
(It's one hell of a "first post," isn't it?)
