Mostly knitting, some other stuff too

[roadriverrail]

So, I can finally say that I have knitted something. I mean, yeah, I've knitted swatches before, and I finger-knitted a mostly-useless scarf for nancyblue, but this is a real project I've finished

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[veleda]

picture of your bag?

[roadriverrail]

When I find a camera and can sit down to do the uploading process.

See what I mean?

[jonathankorman]

Y'know, there's an Evernote iPhone app, that syncing data desktop <-> web <-> phone.

I don't use it much, but to the degree that I do use it I love it.

[roadriverrail]

I noted that today. They have it for the major platforms except Android, actually. That would be handy if I had a need for an iPhone, but my disinterest in an iPhone is really a disinterest in all smart phones. They simply don't fit the way think or engage. It's worth noting that I barely even send text messages. I've used most of the smart phones out there and they are simply too textual and too social-focused to be particularly enabling of my life. I also can't stand browsing on smaller screens.

I was a major engineer on a smart phone, actually, and found out a lot about how little they gel with my psychology through making one.

Evernote, at best, shims my preferred world back in, but having Evernote alone isn't enough.

[radven]

Using Evernote to take snapshot notes on the go is amazingly useful. Your snapshots are OCR'ed, and become fully searchable. Take a picture of product specs you are researching, a white board, a menu, a bottle of wine, etc... Add a few tags and it gets even more useful.

The prior generation of Evernote was fully client based, and I liked having my data local on my machine. They have since switched to a cloud architecture, which has certain trade offs.

[roadriverrail]

I wasn't aware of that feature, actually.

Of course, that would actually require me to actually pull out and use my device as a camera, a habit that I have been a failure at cultivating, even when the device in my pocket was a camera. Once something goes into my pocket, I have a tendency to assume it no longer exists.

[lizzyborden711]

I don't know if you saw but I posted a picture to facebook of a sweater I made for Justin's niece Lizzie. It's real cute but it's a big deal for me because it's the first sweater I've ever finished. I'm still in the middle one I started two years ago made out of $130 of mohair. It just had so many steps and I hate the construction phase. I want things knit in the round as much as possible instead of just sewing flat pieces together. That's what makes knitting "not sewing" to me, the 3-dimensional fabric.

Still, I hope having a cute little one will inspire me to knit more new types of projects since it's like starting in miniature lol.

[roadriverrail]

That's a very cute sweater you made.

I found the construction process a bit frustrating last night since I was having trouble locating the right spots in the stitches to work, and because I ultimately had to just figure out something for myself on it. That said, it was the moment that the bag "came to life," and that's the moment I live for in any project. Given that I basically made up the bag in my head and guesstimated my way through it, constructing it was the first time I saw the idea in front of me.

[radven]

"I'm curious, dear reader...what aspects of your lifestyle is tech currently not augmenting?"

Memory augmentation and quick mobile data capture.

As much as I love the iPhone, it boggles my mind at just how much better even an ancient Palm 5000 was at managing PIM data. And as cool as the Pre is, it is a huge step backwards in a lot of the simple "Zen of Palm" user experiences touches that I loved. The recent fuss over it taking up to 10 seconds to launch the calendar is an example. In the old days, I could whip my gadget out , scan the next several days, and have it back in my pocket all within 10 seconds. All one handed.

No current OS / mobile platform comes close to providing an equivalent PIM capability.

And I still haven't found a data input system I find equivalent to Graffiti 1, though Evernote's snapshot notes comes closest. But with G1 I could capture notes quickly and reliably without even needing to see the screen. Again, nothing else current comes close.

Frustrating.

[roadriverrail]

I actually find this fascinating, because I did own a Palm device, and Graffiti and I never got along very well. It was always slower than either handwriting or typing and quite error prone. I often wondered if Graffiti was anti-lefty or something

[nancyblue]

I'm curious, dear reader...what aspects of your lifestyle is tech currently not augmenting?

Feeding the cats and cleaning the bathtub.

[roadriverrail]

Well, there are automated cat feeders.

As for the bathtub, we might have to work on something. I actually just had a thought...