Date: 2010-09-04 23:10:21 Created: 2010-09-04 19:08:18
Thinking about Ipad stands. If I get one, it still feels like it would be the Compass. But when I think about mobility and where I like to write on my Ipad it starts feeling less useful. The only somewhat common situations for usage would be at the kitchen table (especially when watching videos), and while at work. Those are the times I most reliably use the Ipad on a hard surface. In most other situations, which include where I do most of my typing), I am in places like couches and beds where a Compass-type stand would be useless. A foldable, adjustable case would actually be useful much more often, but I do not really feel like having he Ipad in a case in general. Right now I only really use my Apple case for protection when I put the Ipad in my backpack, and then I do not even bother to actually insert it into the case, I just slide it in between the "covers".
So, we shall see what happens.
While out and about doing some Saturday shopping, I actually spent time in a clothes store. I enjoyed it. I found plenty of items I would like. I feel like a new, or dormant, part of me has awakened. It will complement all the others nicely.
All it is waiting for is me to allocate it some funds.
In the evening I finally got around to seeing Fargo. After which my sister and I discussed a feeling you sometimes get when rating a film (which we both do as habitual users of film recommendation site Filmtipset). The feeling is that of a film being "worth" a certain score in some kind of abstract way, even though you do not actually feel like you appreciated it that much. People may have spoken highly of the film, it may be really well made, thought out and acted. It may have got awards. You feel it is really well made when you watch it. And yet, you find yourself quite neutral afterwards.
I reflexively gave Fargo a four out of five, but after we discussed this I changed to a three and felt it was completely right. One of those weird things we humans do, rating something according to a completely imagined standard ... Perhaps it is something like rating a film after what we think (with that dry logical part of the brain) rather than according to what we feel?
Speaking of feeling, I think I enjoy the different qualities of text input devices and methods for computers about as much as I do writing with different types of pens and pencils on different types of paper. I realized that I have not used my Moleskine (which, my sister noted, I pronounce differently every time) notebook in a while, but while I sort of miss the feel of writing and reading my thoughts on paper, I do not feel that the writing I do instead (on my Ipad mostly) is in any way inferior. Writing things like this has a charm of its own, digital and. artificial though it may be.
Oh, and Elements is the perfect IOS text editor for me. Plain text, no nonsense, and built right on top of Dropbox so my notes automagically show up everywhere I need them to.
There is so much more that I do not write here. I write more just for myself, and I speak of things too (shocking, I know). Processing is going on all the time. Thoughts flow, incessantly and mesmerizingly, and I try to catch, nurture and shape as many of them as I can.