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andrewducker) wrote2011-12-21 11:02 pm
andrewducker) wrote2011-12-21 11:02 pm
A slight frustration with technology - Christmas Present edition
Julie* got me a Kobo Touch for Christmas. It is made of awesome. I love that it's smaller than the old ereader I had**, and Julie's Kindle (and slightly smaller than the Kindle touch), and is now nearly all screen. I also love that the screen change is dramatically faster than on my old reader**, as well as lighter. And the screen-turn isn't a button, it's a swipe on the screen. Plus you have lots of control over font, font size, line-spacing, etc. It's pretty much as good as book-readers get until the Kyobo or its successors hit the UK.
There is, however, one problem. Julie took the only micro-USB cable in the flat with her when she went home for Christmas***. Which leaves me with a bunch of epubs on the PC, a device with WiFi sitting a foot away from it, and no method of getting files from A to B.
*sigh*
*and her family, lovely people that they are.
**A Sony PRS-505. Its battery died a few months ago. I've been looking forward to its replacement a _lot_
***No, I don't know where they've all gone either. There should be at least three in the flat somewhere.
There is, however, one problem. Julie took the only micro-USB cable in the flat with her when she went home for Christmas***. Which leaves me with a bunch of epubs on the PC, a device with WiFi sitting a foot away from it, and no method of getting files from A to B.
*sigh*
*and her family, lovely people that they are.
**A Sony PRS-505. Its battery died a few months ago. I've been looking forward to its replacement a _lot_
***No, I don't know where they've all gone either. There should be at least three in the flat somewhere.
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I also have an issue with automatic doors not opening for me (god knows why, too much black or moving too fast?) The combination of those two issues (and my ridiculously cold hands/feet) have lead to speculations that I am some kind of undead :-)
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I was trying to get into the M&S outlet store, and gave up because the door wouldn't open for me!
It did contribute to my theory that I was already dead, and the PhD was part of hell/purgatory!
Also, Edinburgh had a lot of those pedestrian electro sensitive buttons things, you know the kind you push to make the lights stop the cars so you can get across the road? I struggled getting them to work, but they seem to have replaced a lot of them, or I'm just moving around in a different part of town. However I got really upset one day trying to get across a busy road and being completely and utterly unable to make the lights work.
I also seem to have a lot of people bump into me.
Do you think you take up enough space? Is there a way to take up more space non-physically?