So I recently purchased a pedometer. It's a very basic, very cheap model from Target. Regardless, it's amazingly powerful. The pedometer has taught me that I am ridiculously sedentary. Like, the first day I got it, I took only 1100 steps. The recommended daily goal is 10,000. Getting the mail is what managed to push me across the 1K threshold.
In order to reach 10,000 steps a day, I pretty much have to go for a walk. Like, get up, put on real pants (pants without rainbow-colored reindeer), and real shoes (shoes that aren't sold in the slipper section of the LL Bean catalog), and walk around for about an hour. Because if I don't go for a walk, I'm just never going to be close. My commute? Uh, 57 steps from bedroom to living room. Lunch break? 34 steps from desk to kitchen. No, actually, I do putz around the house A LOT during the day, and it does add up. It just doesn't add up to 10,000.
It is sort of fun to see how many steps I can take. And looking down to check it feels so nostalgic, back to the days when I had a pager. The only real obstacle is an unfriendly waistband. Certain pants don't allow the pedometer to hang properly, and it cheats me out of HUNDREDS of steps. Bah.
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
9/2/09
Technobabble
Oh, poor neglected bloggy-blog. I am so sorry... I have been so absent. It's not that I don't think of you fondly and often. It's just that I am a master of procrastination and avoidance. Or maybe you've been secretly keeping me at bay, retribution for referring to you as "bloggy-blog." Deal with it.
I feel like maybe I would blog more if I had the right tool. Not tool as in software, as I think Blogger is perfectly fine for my low-flash, high-text posts. And not really tool as in computer, since there are more computers in residence here than people. But I want to not be trapped in the house, and yet also not be lugging around heavy laptop bags that I can't leave unattended for a quick potty break or stored in a hot car.
So of course, I think about going mobile. I am not ashamed to admit that I crush on the iPhone. If it weren't for that wretched AT&T service, I would be all over that. And then I seriously considered the iPod touch for a while back around January... and I flipped and flopped all spring long. But I couldn't quite see the value, until I started using Evernote and Sparkpeople, and suddenly there were all of these things that I wanted to do while I was out in the world! So I started flipping again, but I knew I had to wait until September for the new Apple announcement. There were rumors of an iPod touch with a camera (WANT for sure!) and even the potential for an iPad.
In the meantime, there was the PalmPre. Pretty sweet! And Sprint has a good value plan, and I'd only have to carry one device. But it would mean switching to Sprint. And then there's the Google phone, which totally owns me now that they use the Cat Stevens song in their commercial. But after yesterday's Gmail outage, I'm wary of commiting all of my online life to Google. Or maybe I just want an old-school Blackberry.
To make matters worse, there are netbooks. I adore netbooks. Except for the typing bit. Which is ironic, perhaps, because I'm pretty sure that heavy typing on the iPhone/Touch is going to be really challenging too. Now there are netbooks that come with broadband cards, and the new MiFi personal wireless hubs. So, so, so tempting. Because then I could be online with my mobile device, or with my laptop, and even hook up several of my friends. Good for work and play!
But then I go back and forth, back and forth. Get a netbook! Just get a smartphone. Get a new iPod! No, you want a netbook! I will wait until September 9th to see what Apple has to offer, and then I will make my decision. But whatever I end up with has to fit in a normal handbag, so I can take it to the bathroom with me and carry it around the grocery store.
P.S. My favorite thing, of course, is actually still pen and paper. But there's that annoying interim step of how to get handwritten things nicely typed up. Yet another tick in the "Hope for an iPad" column.
I feel like maybe I would blog more if I had the right tool. Not tool as in software, as I think Blogger is perfectly fine for my low-flash, high-text posts. And not really tool as in computer, since there are more computers in residence here than people. But I want to not be trapped in the house, and yet also not be lugging around heavy laptop bags that I can't leave unattended for a quick potty break or stored in a hot car.
So of course, I think about going mobile. I am not ashamed to admit that I crush on the iPhone. If it weren't for that wretched AT&T service, I would be all over that. And then I seriously considered the iPod touch for a while back around January... and I flipped and flopped all spring long. But I couldn't quite see the value, until I started using Evernote and Sparkpeople, and suddenly there were all of these things that I wanted to do while I was out in the world! So I started flipping again, but I knew I had to wait until September for the new Apple announcement. There were rumors of an iPod touch with a camera (WANT for sure!) and even the potential for an iPad.
In the meantime, there was the PalmPre. Pretty sweet! And Sprint has a good value plan, and I'd only have to carry one device. But it would mean switching to Sprint. And then there's the Google phone, which totally owns me now that they use the Cat Stevens song in their commercial. But after yesterday's Gmail outage, I'm wary of commiting all of my online life to Google. Or maybe I just want an old-school Blackberry.
To make matters worse, there are netbooks. I adore netbooks. Except for the typing bit. Which is ironic, perhaps, because I'm pretty sure that heavy typing on the iPhone/Touch is going to be really challenging too. Now there are netbooks that come with broadband cards, and the new MiFi personal wireless hubs. So, so, so tempting. Because then I could be online with my mobile device, or with my laptop, and even hook up several of my friends. Good for work and play!
But then I go back and forth, back and forth. Get a netbook! Just get a smartphone. Get a new iPod! No, you want a netbook! I will wait until September 9th to see what Apple has to offer, and then I will make my decision. But whatever I end up with has to fit in a normal handbag, so I can take it to the bathroom with me and carry it around the grocery store.
P.S. My favorite thing, of course, is actually still pen and paper. But there's that annoying interim step of how to get handwritten things nicely typed up. Yet another tick in the "Hope for an iPad" column.
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