rainy day magic
It's SPRING and the BIRDS are happy and I am too!
OKAY, the gig's done (it was awesome to see so many people come out and even dance!) and the party's over (spring has sprung though the sunshine is welcome to come back, the plants are all glad of the rain) .....SO, WHAT'S UP NEXT?
BUTTONFLY UPDATE: we're working on new songs with buttonfly! -- Pat's got one called "Here" -- You're here, hand on heart! Which ends with some beautiful dissonance. I've been working on a new one called "Negotiating Gravity" about cycling downhill with my eyes closed on Palace Street, which is en route home and a not-very-well-travelled little street, very safe for eyes-closed night descent. Well, sorta. I do have a nice scar at the bridge of my nose from sailing down another hill once upon a time in Ottawa.
Working on booking gigs in accessible, all ages venues...hmmm. Soon to begin recording again, some slippery songs that didn't make it onto Hot Drambuie Nights like Wait for it!, Everyone's Gone Mad! and newer ones like When the Giants Awake, Junebug and Mainstreet.
LINDA HAS A JOB: just got a sweet part-time year-long contract at the downtown library in Children's/Teen Annex/Discover Place, so I'm looking forward to working with the stellar group of women (well, except for that boy page! they are all women)....
FAMILY & FOOD UPDATE: On the family front, we've been thinking of Brian all week, who's on an 8 day ambitious canoe trip with his friend Paul, through Algonquin Park, including Petawawa River, choppy lakes, wind and rain...Aieeee! and cold! It's been chilly too. Kids have been great in his absence, helping out lots and not arguing quite as frequently as usual.
Kids have been cooking too -- Bea made pasta with cream sauce, topped with spears of asparagus from our Box from On the Move Organics
http://onthemoveorganics.ca/
Zach and Brian both have been fascinated and impressed by Jeff and his bicycle and trailer made of recycling materials (a bed frame!) -- yes Jeff delivers the Local Boxes by bike and trailer right to our door. WOw! This week we got more asparagus, tiny leaves of spinach, lots of different kinds of sprouts, lettuce, potatoes, and a few pieces of fruit that get gobbled up soon after the lid is pried from the box...
WOOL & GLUE UPDATE: Just got a cool ball of black wool shot through with beautiful slips of color that I'm working on...The spider web in rainbow wool grafitti is still up downtown, though my felt bears with their tiny spiderwebs were all torn down. Souvenirs. Working on some collage cards on this rainy day.
So, hope you have some rainy day magic yourself this week! Or fireworks.
Labels: algonquin park, buttonfly, collages, crocheting, grafitti, new songs, on the move organics
posted by unbuttoned @ 6:11 AM
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It looks like a Google is mimicking Apple and the iPhone. Looking at Google's advertising, it's all about the coolness Factor and what a fad device it is. There's very little information about hard technical data. It's all about the cool people stuff you can do with it. Tons of it focuses on the camera, which the big phone makers have become completely obsessed with. And now Google has created their own processor, which is probably blazingly fast but there's not any real hard data to prove that. And from my current experience Apple still beats everyone at my browser test. Plus Google claims that one of the major reasons for their own processor is to make the phone more secure. And I don't watch the industry real closely, but I haven't heard of phone hacking being a major problem. We're already encrypting stuff a bunch, and people are doing every kind of financial transaction you can think of over their phone. If there were some security holes the bad guys would definitely be reeking havoc. Also, Apple and Android have prided themselves on being fairly hack proof. So creating a brand new never before heard of processor just for that purpose, once again seems like Overkill. What we really want at this point is a quantum processor that will allow 3D holographic interaction with the phone.
I spent 40 years being a computer programmer, and generally want to hear a long list of hard facts and figures about a phone's capabilities and performance. If you really want to impress me Google put a 3.5 millimeter Jack back on the thing. And if you really want to blow my mind you don't need some goofy processor, just add a slot for 1 TB SD card. Do something impressive.
The fact that Google leaves off a 3 and 1/2 mm Jack and no SD card slot seems like they're basically copycating Apple's approach to iPhone. They want you tied into their cloud process so you'll eventually pay money for data that you could just keep on your phone. And the whole idea that you charge another $150 to $200 for more "in phone memory" that costs Google somewhere around $10, just makes the point.
Keep in mind, of all the phones on the market I'm currently using a Pixel.
Oh, speaking of mind blowing upgrades, how about a removable battery. Like the $50 LG phone I had in 2012. Impress me.
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