Odd Lots

May 29, 2010 15:44

  • As I polish up this Odd Lots, I see that Sectorlink.com is down, which is significant to me since they host duntemann.com and copperwood.com. Have no idea what's going on yet, nor how long the outage has existed. (I was over at one of Carol's friends' rebuilding some very ad-hoc tomato shelters in honor of George Ewing until an hour or so ago.) If ( Read more... )

eulogies, hardware, science, software

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regek May 30 2010, 04:17:07 UTC
Strictly, the Scott eVests aren't custom-designed for iPad (oddly enough, Apple never gives their iStuff definite articles; I think it's to humanize them). They have pretty much always had an enormous pocket for magazines or the like, and iPads just happen to be roughly that size. I've tried several SeV jackets over the last five years or so (I own two now) and they all had that pocket.

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jeff_duntemann May 30 2010, 11:02:27 UTC
There's a certain resonance there--after all, the iPad was supposed to be the device that Finally Makes E-magazines Work. (And it may yet.) This was a very fortuitous coincidence, and he gets points for noticing that it was there.

Which isn't any sort of slam on him. I love pockets, and I may get one of those jackets, even if I never get an iPad or anything like it.

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regek May 30 2010, 16:29:33 UTC
I love both of mine. The pockets are fantastic. Very deep from the mouth and all of the ones with vertical mouths have support systems so they don't bulge. I enjoy photography, and they let me carry an awful lot of gear around in a way that isn't obvious.

I have one of the older designs and one of the current line. The older ones had "more" pockets, but a lot of them were small or didn't have a convenient purpose. For example, four of the pockets are actually two little mesh pouches with a small divider in each so you get two pockets per pouch. They were sized just right to hold those plastic memory card cases. I kept three CF cards and a spare camera battery in them. I'm not sure what else would really go there, though, so for non-photographers, those pockets aren't terribly useful ( ... )

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apostle_of_eris May 30 2010, 16:54:37 UTC
I've read that librarians *hated* Martin Gardner's editorship of Humpty Dumpty, because there were so many things to cut out or assemble that there were almost no intact copies.

Perhaps the aspect which excites me most about the iWhoozits is that they've broken some of the blinders of the whole user interface/user experience front. I have been bitching for years about the hegemony of the (lower case) windows paradigm. In forty years, since Douglas Englebart's most famous dog and pony show ever, all the progress we've made is better graphics? That's just wrong. Now, if you say "non-windows interface" you're not making gibberish nonsense noises.
I've probably mentioned my thesis that the "smart phone" is the first of the true second generation of personal computer, but my own current fantasy form factor is a smart-phone-sized unit which is also a remote to the laptop I'm carrying. I want it all! Though that also loops back to an iPocket equivalent for iParking.

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