Smartphone?

[redknightalex]

I got paid today, and today's session will be really rough (I say goodbye to my one-year+ therapist today and I'm already flailing about, not knowing what to do and/or feel), so do I buy that HTC Inspire smartphone I desperately want?

I'm thinking "yes." Geek toys are always great for comfort.

Input?

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[develish1]

I asked hubby (he's the gadget freak in our house after all) and he says go for it. That's apparently the android version of the phone he has right now (he has windows one) and he loves it :)

[redknightalex]

Thanks for asking hubby (and thank you Dev's hubby!). :D

I'm glad I went for it although it tells me I have email before Gmail even knows it, which is really bizarre. It was a nice birthday present to myself. Now I just need to name it.

I did see the Windows phones they had there but the interface wasn't all too pretty. Plus, Android. Hehe.

(I'm open for name suggestions but no George, alright? The phone is not a troll!)

[develish1]

well obviously not George, that would get too confusing, lol.

I was thinking maybe Marvin, or perhaps Robby, or Max (you could drop the 404 bit I think) or Deckard, or, oooh, how about Gort?

sorry, I seem to be channelling Ten today, my brain is running away with me, lol. not to mention my geek is showing too

[redknightalex]

*is ashamed at having to look up all of those names, except for Deckard*

...I think I need to go work on some computer hardware to reinstate my geek cred. Hang on....

*conquers world via video games* Hahahaha!

Supposedly, according to my (now gone) therapist, I have a very busy brain. I take that as a compliment. I suppose that means I channel Ten everyday. Oh my...that may not be so good. (Read: I understand Ten speak).

[develish1]

ALL of them? *shakes head* what am I going to do with you? *sigh*

I've been told I write rambling Ten rather well, but to be honest I think it just looks that way because sometimes my sentences get away from me, lol

[redknightalex]

*wibbles even more*

Honestly, I found Asimov's Robot series to be annoying but PKD is the grand master of scifi. And Clarke. I just couldn't get into Asimov. *shrug*

lol. You should hear my brain chatter. You might actually understand it!

[develish1]

I just thought, being the sci-fi geek you seem to be, that you'd have seen at least some of the movies *shrugs*

I wouldn't necessarily rec the remake, but the original of The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic.

I seem to understand your rambling posts well enough, lol

[redknightalex]

Well, I have seen Blade Runner, 2001, and I, Robot but that doesn't mean I remember all of the names in them. Do you know how much information is in my head? There's only so much I can keep as a running process at one time! Frankly, I thought you were talking about the books, of which I've only read 2001 and a few of PKD's short stories (which were all brilliant).

Sigh, another rec. I'll never watch half the things I should.

Well, that's good. As long as a basic level of understanding is accomplished I'm fine. lol

[develish1]

ah, that's not how my mind works, sorry. I generally tend to think of the movie or TV show first, if there is one.

I blame my dad for that though. He started me off on my sci-fi addiction at a very early age, in front of the TV, with classic B/W movies and shows like Lost In Space, Star Trek, and DW of course.

My dad is such a fanboy when it comes to almost anything sci-fi, but only as far as what he can watch goes, he's never been much of a reader. So it wasn't until much later that I started on the books the things I'd been watching were based on.

[redknightalex]

I'm the opposite: I didn't have a lot of TV access as a kid (my father was too poor so his parent's taped cartoons for us to watch on the weekends and my mother was either in the same situation or didn't really believe in TV) so I read a lot. I also obsessively watched the original Star Wars Trilogy on VHS every weekend. I guess that's how I coped as a kid.

I haven't started reading the harder scifi until recently but it's been very hard for me to read because my mind is too anxious to settle. Or it puts me to sleep. I can read comics just fine though. Just think of me now as a kid with undiagnosed ADHD and you have my dilemma.

My dad would try and watch MST3K whenever he could (he grew up with those movies after all) but I was too young/involved in teenaged angst to understand/care. But, other than that, I was the only geek in my family. Still am, actually. Plus, if anything, I'm a video game/computer geek before anything else.

P.S. - When I say PKD you do know who I'm talking about, right?

[develish1]

sorry, bet you thought I'd run off, lol. Our net connection is being a complete B**** today. not sure if it's anything to do with the bad weather we had overnight, but it's dropped out at least 6 times in the last 4 hours. :(

I'm starting to get VERY annoyed with it now to be honest and might just give up for tonight and go read something instead.

Of course I know who you mean, any sci-fi geek who doesn't know who Philip K Dick is, shouldn't be calling themselves one, lol

[redknightalex]

Sorry about the Internet connection: that's the one thing that'll really put me into a fit...other than Moffat. ;) (Which reminds me that I need to call my own cable company and get set for some TV and Internet....)

Well, just checking. :) I made two references to him and it didn't even cause a stir in you. Had to make sure seeing as you were testing my scifi knowledge too!

[develish1]

it's settled down again now, but I'm not holding my breath.

I was hardly testing you though, you did ask for names after all :)

[redknightalex]

True but I've never named a gadget after a book character before (and yes, they were all books first *checks again* Yup, books first. lol).

Sure...whatever you say... ;)

[develish1]

I was just thinking "androids" and those were the first names that came to mind, lol

what do you normally name your gadgets after?

[redknightalex]

Shh, to bed with you! I'll tell you in the morning (although I'm pretty sure I've got a post regarding this very thing).