sometimes it's the heat /and/ the humidity

[jazzfish]

@feministhulk: "DON'T MAKE ME CRITIQUE YOUR COMPLICITY IN MALE PRIVILEGE. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M CRITIQUING YOUR COMPLICITY IN MALE PRIVILEGE." It's things like this that may eventually force me to break down and get a twitter account: not for the posting, but for the reading.

Honoring the fallen: "[T]he best thing we can do for the troops is to not send them to pointless fucking wars where a lot of them become the fallen and many more become physical and psychological wrecks."

From matociquala, a Periodic Table of Fabulous Writers (warning: PDF).

At the bottom of this review of the iPad's camera connection kit comes the revelation that you can use the USB dock that comes with the kit to connect a low-power USB keyboard. Such as, say, the Neo. This makes me immensely more likely to pick up a second-generation iPad next year.

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It's about now, having been doing this off and on for, oh, four years now, that I ought to accept that I'm a crap runner. Seriously. I sweat to the point where I can't even see where I'm going, my lungs complain loudly if it's colder than about 50 or at all humid, and between my wide feet and my weird stride it's a wonder I can run at all. And that's just the first mile.

So, I get tired out pretty quickly when I'm running. At first it was mostly 'lungs tired,' where I can't get enough oxygen out of the air to keep going, and my chest starts to hurt, and I have to slow down and gasp for awhile. Eventually my lungs started to get the hang of this whole 'working' thing, and I got a new experience: 'muscles tired.' I didn't even recognise it at first: I can still breathe, what do you mean I need to stop and walk for awhile? But at the point where my legs are having trouble moving me forward I really do need to walk for a bit, even though I'm still processing air okay.

Today I found out about a third kind of tired. It's what happens when the heat and the humidity leach all will to live, much less move, out of me.

I can handle the gasping, and at this point I expect the rubbery feeling in my legs. This humidity, though, may be what drives me back indoors for the duration.

And it's only barely June.

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[rbandrews]

So I ordered an iPad, since there were none available in Houston, Austin, or San Antonio, and I wanted a birthday present (and some retail therapy).

I mention this because it does work with Apple's tiny little bluetooth keyboard, so if for some reason you can't get it to sync with the Neo, you could always just write on the iPad. Being able to only run one application at a time would actually be a benefit to a writer.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, in theory the Device will also have Bluetooth keyboard support in September or so. The thing is, I /really/ like the Neo as a keyboard and I'm not sure I'd be nearly as happy with a smaller one.

[rbandrews]

My main problem with the mini Apple keyboard was that there was about a tenth of a second delay between hitting ctrl and it registering. I do Emacs chords fast enough that it was really annoying to me.

On an iPad, where there's no Emacs, I don't think it'll be an issue. The key size is the same as the normal Mac keyboards, there's just no numpad or anything, so the board itself is smaller.

[jazzfish]

That's right, there's also a tiny bit of delay with Bluetooth keyboards. Which might be enough to drive me nuts (copy, paste, move the cursor to next/previous word. . .).