Man, it's been a busy few weeks and there are only so many scratch-off Lotto cards available to help me cope, but I'm almost over the hump. In this case, the "hump" being too retardedly exhausted to even consider writing anything of substance after finishing up writing other things of substance more strictly correlated with checks that arrive with my name on them. In times like these, when there's too much to do to ever really feel organized, I turn to technology and buy tickets for bandwagons two years too late. In other words, I got a Palm Pilot.
It's a Palm Pilot Treo 700wx, or some shit, I dunno. The woman's sister had one, and it took me all of five seconds to declare that it had to be mine. It's ridiculously expensive if you just buy it outright, but in my case, I was just upgrading from my crappy Sprint phone, and was thus privy to all sorts of discounts. In the end, it was still pricey, but not so much that I now have to kick my beloved scratch-off Lotto habit. Did I mention that I hit $50 on one card last week? I did!
I'd been looking into getting a PDA for a while now, for a variety of reasons. Like, if I want to bolt out of the office early and not tell anyone, I need to at least be accessible through e-mail to cover my ass, and now, I can be. Moreover, I just want to be able to read about elephants and Scoville ratings and other Wikipedia shit on my long bus ride home. By the time I figured out that I could download Tetris and Bejeweled, I made a halo out of construction paper and stapled it to my head.
Truth is, I'm an idiot when it comes to tech trends. I go through at least one computer every two years, and that's conservative. And, when I buy a new computer, it's really just about driving to Best Buy and picking the tower in the coolest shade of gray. When I bought the Palm, I knew I'd be able to use it as a phone, to send e-mails and to vaguely browse the Internet, but I didn't realize just how much of a "minicomputer" the thing actually is. I foresee grand times ahead, assuming I don't fumble and drop it in the next week, which is entirely possible.
My favorite Palm-related revelation has been its inbuilt Microsoft Word Mobile program, which, at least for argument's sake, would let me write articles and finish assignments from pretty much anywhere. Sure, I can't type very fast on a tiny, thumb-buttoned keyboard, but I can type, and save, and send, and maybe even print if I look around hard enough. Fun!
Posted by Matt on 01/29/2007. E-mail me!
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cool phone. Im picking up a sidekick 3 soon.