I just realized that today marks the anniversary of the Japanese Harbor attack on Pearl Harbor. That and I remembered I have this program four journaling on my iPad which I haven't used because I haven't been journaling. Perhaps this is the friendly reminder to get back into it.
I purchased the iCade today. It's the coolest iPad cradle in the world. Basically it's a miniature arcade with joystick, buttons, and everything, connects to the iPad via BlueTooth, allowing me to play all the old classic video games like Pac Man and Space Invaders. It also makes one hell of a stand, not just astetically, but it's useful as well. Now if they'd just program the drivers for it so the joystick could be used in any program (say, to move the cursor in this word processor!).
I read the first dozen or so pages of Whil Wheaton's biography today and to my surprise it was really quite good. I'm thinking of getting it if for no other reason than to challenge my assumptions about him. For those who don't recognize the obvious (or what I thought was), Mr. Wheaton played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was the only part of the show I wanted to "Die, die, die!" But over the years I've earned respect for him not so much as an actor but as a human being and frankly his writing abilities are up there. Lucky bastard has an audience too. I don't seem to...except seemingly from old friends who want to check in on me vicariously, secretly...when it would be so much nicer to get an e-mail, phone call, or hug. Then again, perhaps I could have readership if I start writing again and keep to it and really focus on improving it and saying something worth reading. That's aways off. For now it is what it is...and I hate when people say that.
What should I write about? What tone should my blog have? Should it be something for teaching? For healing? I don't know anymore. I suppose that's another thing no one in their right mind would want to read about. Hell, I don't want to write about it but it's part of the healing process...I'm so tired of healing though. My 38th birthday was a week or two ago and I'm more beat up than ever before in my life. I've realized, though, why I get myself birthday gifts these days: It's been a long time since I've felt the day was special, that I really was. Sure, I get cards, hugs, this and that, but somewhere along the line people stopped going, "What does he really want? What would be fun?" I mean, I never liked getting useful things for my birthday and it seems birthdays became meaningless around the time the gifts became things like t-shirts and wrist watches. I would rather have toys, video games, movies, fun-fun-fun frivolous stuff! Save useful things for x-mas. So there's that, which I hadn't realized. What I have known is since about 14 or 15 I started hating birthdays because I started to become deeply depressed...but that's another story not worth repeating.
Worth. Do I have it?
Do you realize that you will not exist for 99.999999_% of the lifespan of the universe? Did you realize 99.999999_% = X and X <= Infinity? Do you realize how much that sucks regardless of your religion?
I've been watching a BBC sitcom called Red Dwarf. People have said it's really good so I'm finally forcing myself to watch it. IT SUCKS. I mean, my writing sucks but I'm just freewriting and I'm not going to edit. These people were paid to "write" this stuff. Amazes me. But people enjoy it. To each their own.
I like REAL cats.
Now lets see, can I keep this BlueTooth keyboard in my lap? Yep, that works. Yep, I like the iCade. You know what's rediculous? I read online that some people were having a hard time pairing it with their iPads. I think these people just don't read directions as it was one of the most simple pairings I've ever done, only difference was instead of typing in #'s you click the joystick up, down, left, and right, in the correct combination. Not very hard. There was also one review that gave it 1 out of 5 stars. Why? Because his iPad wouldn't fit when it was in the third-party case he bought for it. So apparently the company was supposed to design the thing to work with EVERY case? What a nimwit. I sometimes wonder about people (including myself). I mean, my iPhone fits on the motorcycle mount I bought; it also fits in the car mount; but it won't fit when the case I bought from a third party is on. Why? Because there are tens of thousands of UNIQUE CASES which would mean a company would have to design the iCade to fit tens of thousands of different and unique iPad shapes.
Duh!!!
There are only a few (minor) things I don't like about it. 1. As I mentioned above the joystick and buttons don't have default, programmable even, behaviors global to all programs, 2. the quarter slot isn't real (doesn't have to work but would be a nice touch if it were, say, a piggy bank--though maybe I can find one and built it in!), and 3. it has a spot for the iPad connector to slip in underneath but nothing holds it in place. All are pretty superficial/silly and truly I think as toys goes this is absolutely awesome--frankly I wish I had another one (with the more 80'ish design) for work (even though I don't really need it--and frankly would much prefer a hundred other things from ThinkGeek.com--that's a hint, folks).
Alright, I suppose this is good enough for now. If you read this drop me a line so I know someone's reading. Do that and I'll write more often. Promise.
(and I may believe promises are worth keeping again)
Aslynn
I purchased the iCade today. It's the coolest iPad cradle in the world. Basically it's a miniature arcade with joystick, buttons, and everything, connects to the iPad via BlueTooth, allowing me to play all the old classic video games like Pac Man and Space Invaders. It also makes one hell of a stand, not just astetically, but it's useful as well. Now if they'd just program the drivers for it so the joystick could be used in any program (say, to move the cursor in this word processor!).
I read the first dozen or so pages of Whil Wheaton's biography today and to my surprise it was really quite good. I'm thinking of getting it if for no other reason than to challenge my assumptions about him. For those who don't recognize the obvious (or what I thought was), Mr. Wheaton played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was the only part of the show I wanted to "Die, die, die!" But over the years I've earned respect for him not so much as an actor but as a human being and frankly his writing abilities are up there. Lucky bastard has an audience too. I don't seem to...except seemingly from old friends who want to check in on me vicariously, secretly...when it would be so much nicer to get an e-mail, phone call, or hug. Then again, perhaps I could have readership if I start writing again and keep to it and really focus on improving it and saying something worth reading. That's aways off. For now it is what it is...and I hate when people say that.
What should I write about? What tone should my blog have? Should it be something for teaching? For healing? I don't know anymore. I suppose that's another thing no one in their right mind would want to read about. Hell, I don't want to write about it but it's part of the healing process...I'm so tired of healing though. My 38th birthday was a week or two ago and I'm more beat up than ever before in my life. I've realized, though, why I get myself birthday gifts these days: It's been a long time since I've felt the day was special, that I really was. Sure, I get cards, hugs, this and that, but somewhere along the line people stopped going, "What does he really want? What would be fun?" I mean, I never liked getting useful things for my birthday and it seems birthdays became meaningless around the time the gifts became things like t-shirts and wrist watches. I would rather have toys, video games, movies, fun-fun-fun frivolous stuff! Save useful things for x-mas. So there's that, which I hadn't realized. What I have known is since about 14 or 15 I started hating birthdays because I started to become deeply depressed...but that's another story not worth repeating.
Worth. Do I have it?
Do you realize that you will not exist for 99.999999_% of the lifespan of the universe? Did you realize 99.999999_% = X and X <= Infinity? Do you realize how much that sucks regardless of your religion?
I've been watching a BBC sitcom called Red Dwarf. People have said it's really good so I'm finally forcing myself to watch it. IT SUCKS. I mean, my writing sucks but I'm just freewriting and I'm not going to edit. These people were paid to "write" this stuff. Amazes me. But people enjoy it. To each their own.
I like REAL cats.
Now lets see, can I keep this BlueTooth keyboard in my lap? Yep, that works. Yep, I like the iCade. You know what's rediculous? I read online that some people were having a hard time pairing it with their iPads. I think these people just don't read directions as it was one of the most simple pairings I've ever done, only difference was instead of typing in #'s you click the joystick up, down, left, and right, in the correct combination. Not very hard. There was also one review that gave it 1 out of 5 stars. Why? Because his iPad wouldn't fit when it was in the third-party case he bought for it. So apparently the company was supposed to design the thing to work with EVERY case? What a nimwit. I sometimes wonder about people (including myself). I mean, my iPhone fits on the motorcycle mount I bought; it also fits in the car mount; but it won't fit when the case I bought from a third party is on. Why? Because there are tens of thousands of UNIQUE CASES which would mean a company would have to design the iCade to fit tens of thousands of different and unique iPad shapes.
Duh!!!
There are only a few (minor) things I don't like about it. 1. As I mentioned above the joystick and buttons don't have default, programmable even, behaviors global to all programs, 2. the quarter slot isn't real (doesn't have to work but would be a nice touch if it were, say, a piggy bank--though maybe I can find one and built it in!), and 3. it has a spot for the iPad connector to slip in underneath but nothing holds it in place. All are pretty superficial/silly and truly I think as toys goes this is absolutely awesome--frankly I wish I had another one (with the more 80'ish design) for work (even though I don't really need it--and frankly would much prefer a hundred other things from ThinkGeek.com--that's a hint, folks).
Alright, I suppose this is good enough for now. If you read this drop me a line so I know someone's reading. Do that and I'll write more often. Promise.
(and I may believe promises are worth keeping again)
Aslynn
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