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(An)droid.

Published on November 6, 2009 in moBlog and Web. Closed Tags: mobile.

This is a test as much as it is a blog. I replaced my phone, today, with a Motorola Droid. This is one of the first android devices on Verizon as well as one of the first with android 2.0. It’s a huge upgrade for me. I barely had web access, before, now I have a honest-to-goodness browser. I waited for android to come to Verizon and resisted the urge to switch to an iPhone, even when my enV’s screen cracked.

The reviews are true. The keyboard isn’t wonderful. The software keyboard isn’t half bad, though… so I find myself flipping back and forth, for now. The app situation is weird. With such a nice browser, are the apps I’m downloading even necessary? I don’t know the answer to this one, either. Another case of “time will tell.” I loaded some music on it, but will it replace my iPod for the train rides to work in the summer or for car rides? Too early to tell. I’ve only used the camera to try out the Amazon price-matching app. I haven’t even tried the GPS yet, and that’s what really eliminated any doubt… the new, free, google-maps based turn-by-turn navigation.

So far, though, it’s pretty awesome. I will keep you posted on my findings

cameraphone memories

Published on November 30, 2008 in moBlog. Closed Tags: camp, driving, memories, mobile, Mom, Photo.

It started at the beginning of the month, when I parked my car in a way that was eerily familiar. Then a couple weeks later, the christmas trees arrived, and another familiar scene unfolded. I got my phone out again and tried to snap a similar picture. Then a scene/memory [/event?] from Thanksgiving of 2005 reappeared. That may have been the last time I saw gas below $2. I’m kind of amazed that it’s down below $2 again. I was tempted to find a similar sign and try to recapture that picture on my phone… but the tree one wasn’t as good as last year’s tree pics, so I decided against it. I think I just need to have my camera with me all the time, in November. Now I know, for next year. Unless, of course, whatever phone I replace mine with has a really good camera… doesn’t seem likely.

I think this would be a good time to mention that I’ll be at Mom’s house the weekend after Christmas. Sarah and I will only there for a few days, but we might have a little bit of free time if anybody wants to get together.

you know you’re near rhode island when…

Published on September 5, 2008 in moBlog. Closed Tags: food.

that’s “colossal” coffee milk. right next to the 2% and the “ultimate” chocolate

long line for hams today

Published on March 22, 2008 in moBlog. Closed Tags: mobile.

guess what all still works

Published on March 6, 2008 in moBlog and Music. Closed Tags: mobile, Music.

Christmas on the Porch

Published on December 24, 2007 in moBlog. Closed Tags: mobile.

Mom enclosed her front porch with sliding glass doors last year. It’s gone through a couple furniture set-ups, but I think this year is a pretty nice layout for the family. I’m sure this picture is a grainy mess, but the cameraphone can only do so much. I’m tempted to break out my real camera… which reminds me: when i pack later, my camera needs to be accessable on the plane. It was way too tightly packed away on the trip out and there were some decent sights out the window on the way out here.

diner food and wi-fi. yum.

Published on December 17, 2007 in moBlog. Closed Tags: mobile.

my favorite little chicagoland diner… close to one of the schools I work at. haven’t been there much this season. they have free wi-fi now!

mmm… yumminess

Published on November 28, 2007 in moBlog. Closed Tags: food, memories, mobile.

I developed a taste (read: addiction) for apple soda way back in 1995, on a school foreign language club trip to Mexico. At all the cool little restaurants we ate at, we would ask what kinds of soda they had and apple was always on the list among the cokes and sprites and roor beers. Prior to that, I’d only had some sparkling apple stuff at holiday parties and such. I had a bit of a hard time finding it back on the east coast. the Jones green apple variety was way too sweet. The Izze apple was closer, but a little too much like juice. I was hoping to find some online a couple years ago, since coca-cola bottled an apple fanta… and my search didn’t turn up any american products, but I did find Sidral Mundet. Now, I tend to have a supply of Manzanita Sol in the house all the time. It’s a little sweeter than the authentic stuff, but it’s yummy, and probably closest to what I got in restaurants in Mexico. And it’s at a lot of grocery stores and gas stations. Yay!

have tree, will travel

Published on November 23, 2007 in moBlog. Closed Tags: driving, food, memories, mobile.

tied down with care. makes me miss my jeep(s), though I don’t think I ever actually used them to pick up a christmas tree. we also got free cups a hot cider and a free apple cider donut. yum.

happy black friday, we bought a tree

Published on November 23, 2007 in moBlog. Closed Tags: memories, mobile.

in case it’s not apparent, that’s a big round bail of hay dressed as a turkey. we bought a christmas tree… pretty different from when I lived with my parents and we’d run out and get one as close to the day as possible, and then leave it up until St Patrick’s day. It’s also a far cry from my hand-me-down “lottery tree” that served as the whole of the holiday decorations in Woonsocket. It may have come out this early on one or two years, but taking it out of the closet was a lot less effort.