Thu 8 Jan 2009
This is an excellent example of how much I stab the keys of my centro with my nails. If you look really closely, you can see a sort of slash in the middle of the spacebar. That’s really a cut. And lately, when I happen to press the spacebar with my nail, I don’t produce a space on the screen. Instead, my nail goes straight through the plastic. Whoops.
Thu 8 Jan 2009
This afternoon, I was glued to Engadget’s live blogging of Palm’s announcement at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. I heard that Microsoft’s announcement was pretty anemic… and Apple had announced that 2009 would be their last appearance at MacWorld (and Steve Jobs didn’t even show up!). Palm had been building up a lot of intrigue into what would be announced today.
Turns out, all that curiosity was well satiated. I’ve been a fan of Palm products for a while. I never had a Palm Pilot, but the whole concept was pretty neat back in the day. I got a Treo 700p back in 2006, after I killed my flip phone. I flipped it one too many times, and one afternoon, the earpiece/display went flying 10 feet down the sidewalk after a stressful day and a particularly violent wrist flick. Oops. I was sold on the touchscreen and full keyboard. It was a lot heftier than any other phone I’d had previously, but come on — smartphone with a touchscreen? Awesome. And it was cheaper than purchasing Blackberry’s additional data plan. The 700p even had a memory card slot that just happened to be perfectly compatible with my camera’s memory card!
After that phone took a swim in the toliet on Valentine’s Day 2008, I replaced it with my current red Palm Centro. Definitely smaller and significantly lighter than my Treo brick. It had personality — it’s a bright happy RED! And a touchscreen. And everything else I’d been enamored of Palm recently. My only minor complaint was that the QWERTY keypad was more ‘gummy’ than the hard plastic buttons of the Treo. While it was definitely no Windows Mobile, I was pretty happy with the Palm OS…
But it was no iPhone. When Jeff got his with the full touchscreen, I was initally all oooooh and aaaaaah. But there were no BUTTONS. I LOVE my BUTTONS. My wonderful QWERTY BUTTONS. I got fairly used to being able to use my fingernail as a stylus on my Palm phones and being able to stab at buttons with my thumbnail. Meaning, the phone could still function as what it was, even if I wasn’t using my fingertips. I remember it took me nearly 15 min to type out a 5 sentence email one morning. Why? I tried using my fingernails on the touchscreen keyboard. No go. Apple’s nice for other things… but I needed BUTTONS.
And that’s why I was so freakin excited this afternoon when the awesome top people at Palm (I have all the articles open, but I can’t even find the name of the people who talked. Sheesh) announced the 1H 2009 arrival of the Palm Pre.
The specs without my further rambling:
I’m going to say this will be my birthday/Christmas present for 2009. I got my Centro 6 months ago. I don’t think I’m eligible for an upgrade/replacement for quite a while. Doesn’t matter. I WANT. I’ve been in full-on fangirly geek out mode all day. I’m saving up!
More pictures from Engadget here
Official Palm Pre page
Wed 7 Jan 2009
You must look into other people as well as at them. ~Lord Chesterfield
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Never tell anyone that you’re writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, or quitting smoking. They’ll encourage you to death. ~Lynn Johnston
Wed 7 Jan 2009
11 years of use. 3 sets of yellow laces. I love the yellow.
Wed 7 Jan 2009
Everyone should have a fashion staple. An item that stands the test of time. Or at least a really good pair of black boots.
Fortunately, I can encapsulate both categories with one pair. And! They’re work appropriate — as long as you don’t view them under harsh white light… hehehe… These boots have withstood time and my periodic beatings — presenting my beloved Doc Martens!
Mon 5 Jan 2009
If you’re responsible enough to hold a job, you’re responsible enough to clean up after yourself if you bleed/pee/poop on the toilet seat.
Come to think of it, the same applies to men as well.
Sun 4 Jan 2009
One post. So much for a post a day…
Saturday-
Sunday -
Nothing too over the top or remotely interesting. And no daily photos for either day, sadly.
A full work week starts tomorrow, so I’d better start on the early bed time again. How many more days till the next holiday season? /sigh/
Fri 2 Jan 2009
I didn’t work today. Yay. I know a lot of people who did. I tend to get this craving to cook, more accurately, I get a baking itch on my days off. I had an absolutely amazing lemon meringue tart not too long ago. But I didn’t need another disaster similar to my lemon meringue pie incident (disasters for another day, another post).
So I scoured the internet (as well as many of my favorite food blogs), and came across an easy looking recipe from Katy over at Sugarlaws: Chocolate-Drizzled Oatmeal Lace Cookies.
Seriously, how yum do those look? I wish I had taken her warning about how much the cookies spread to heart. While baking, the oatmeal sheet overtook my entire baking sheet. Thankfully, due to the amount of butter in the recipe, it was relatively easy for me to detach from my cookie sheet. The first batch, I rolled into a longish log shape. Instead of a chocolate drizzle, I made a chocolate dipping sauce. I had less batter to work with for the 2nd batch, so I just made four dollops, and ended up with two longish cookies, about 4 inches wide and 8 inches long.
I have a picture for posting of the 2nd batch, I will try to remember to post soon.
Thu 1 Jan 2009
This is the start of my new daily photo series. Filipinos have a belief that if you wear polka dots during New Year’s Day or the ball drop, you won’t go broke during the next 365 days. Here’s to that.
