goodbye to Gabriel, hello to the Device

[jazzfish]

So, that lasted about three days before I realised that "internet anywhere there's a wireless hotspot" isn't at all like "internet anywhere." And another two before deciding that, yeah, I could probably afford the monthly data fee if I was going to actually be using it, and I was needing a new phone anyway. Then a week before getting in touch with my parents again, and, as of yesterday afternoon it's goodbye Touch, hello iPhone.

So far I'm liking it. Not entirely sure what I think of the phone controls (plus I need to organize my contacts a little better) and I'd be happier if it could fit all my music. And it feels weird against my leg. Wider, longer, less of a phone-lump and more form-fitting. I suspect it's trying to symbiotically attach itself to me.

I went with an iPhone over some other phoneternet device for two reasons: first, the iPodness makes it easy to store music; second, the App Store. It's got everything. I mean, not just games. Everything. iBird, for pete's sake. This is amazing.

Last night, digging through boxen looking for a cell phone (long story), I stumbled upon my graphing calculator from high school. TI-81, baybee. I'm darkly amused that seventeen years later my telephone has several orders of magnitude more processing power, in a smaller form factor.

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[rbandrews]

The first one I bought was a giant "Zork Collection" with every Zork game up to Zork Nemesis.

While poking around the directories with Zork I-III in them, I found out that they actually contained more than half of the games Infocom ever released. They just only had shortcuts to start Zork I-III.

[jazzfish]

*blink* Sounds like they just took Lost Treasures I, changed the launcher, and slapped a different label on. That's pretty awesome.

[rbandrews]

Yeah, it's pretty much what they did. I changed some batch files and managed to get them to run (this was pre-Internet for me, so I had never really heard of most of these before).