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Fresh beets? I bought fresh beets to make juice to go with my fresh wheatgrass juice? I've never tasted fresh beets that I know of. Now I'm gonna put the beet and its leafy top into my emasticating juicer to soften the medicine-y taste and feel of the wheatgrass juice? Damn, I've gotten adventurous in my dotage. I finally figured out that what I've been calling "tossed word salad" in the way I write is called a "mashup" online.
My old friend Billy came by for a long visit yesterday afternoon. It's been a few months since I've seen him. He has investments with my younger brother and they see each other frequently. When they have a tiff, as entrepreneurs will, he seems to get mad at me too. Never the less, he did come by yesterday for a few hours and we took up right where we left off.
Rainey stopped by toward the end of Billy's visit and stayed after Billy left until about nine. He and Billy get along just fine. He brought Billy up to date by showing him how his iPhone works, and Billy seemed genuinely intrigued by it. He only has a regular cell phone. I bet he gets an iPhone soon. My youngest brother has an iPhone. He's been a Mac fanboi since the mid-1980's and is an early adapter about gadgets in general. My brother may be a bigger iPhone nut than Rainey is. It's too bad I can't afford one.
The news reports about the new iPad tablet computer Apple is supposed to be coming out with next month is interesting. I follow it as closely as the angst of my poverty will allow. In the last couple of days Apple has announced how much it will cost and what sort of AT&T contracts or not a potential owner will have to come up with to play the new tablet computer game. The iPad will arrive with two types. One will have a wi-fi radio and no 3G, and another that has both. To get the 3G you have to buy it factory installed. It will connect to the internet through wi-fi or 3G if you buy the 3G configured model. I might get one without the 3G eventually. It's just money.. They'll make more.
The way I use the internet the wi-fi connection might work for me. Presently, the way I use the internet is to read the news and participate in e-mail discussion groups. All I need is the internet to do that. Not a telephone. Skype. Women liked my phone voice and call me on the job just to get off, and I couldn't hang up on them without them calling my boss and raising hell and wanting my job. I hardly ever use a telephone.
I haven't made a long-distance call in years. Obviously, I don't use a cell phone. I've never owned one. It's just too expensive to pay for calls I may never make. The idea of using a smartphone to connect to the internet might win me over eventually or the telcos may halt residential wired phone and DSL service for a total nation-wide wireless internet/phone system like WiMax. My age is showing. The first question I ask my friends who do use smartphones is: Where are you at? Where are you calling from?
Google's Android phone operating system is said to be really ramping up to compete with the iPhone. Almost daily some new feature or revision comes out. Apple never will compete on price with the Android smartphones, in my opinion, but I'm very pleased with Apple's 64-bit Snow Leopard operating system. I've dreamed of owning a 64-bit system since the late '80's back in the last century and former millennium.
I haven't bought the extra DRAM memory cards that will give me up to 16 gigs of random access memory yet, but I'm planning to eventually. My iMac came with 4 gigs (2 X 2 gig cards) of DRAM in four slots, which is triple the ram I've ever had. I'm figuring a way to afford two 4 gig cards ($350) that will give me 12 gigs of ram. Literally impossible with 32-bit systems just a year ago.
The digerati pundits seem to have agreed that the desktop computer will be passe for individual consumers in the next very few years and everybody will switch to smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android. Apple and Google have seemed friendly in the past, but the smart phone seems to be pulling them apart. A knock-down dragout fight would be excellent for the consumer. "Hit 'em again, hit 'em again... harder, harder..." '-)
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
