Out for my traditional distraction. Fortunately, the bar of my frequency in San Jose has a gas fireplace in the back and a gas stove up front, thus circumventing the ban on burning particulate matter that keeps me from the Riptide in San Francisco for the moment. Cask ale, good reading, and quiet…my own sort of homage on this day. <\/p>\n
And blogging, as I tap this out on a newly acquired iPad mini, second generation. Through no fault of my own I stumbled into a new iPad Air, which I intend to sell – because for that money plus a little Christmas present dough plus a small investment of my own, I could turn it into the 8 inch model with similar battery life, processor performance, screen resolution, and a form factor that fits in a jacket pocket. At long last, the perfect iPad, and one that will let me mostly urge personal things from the work laptop. The free 200 MB per month of T-Mobile LTE data as a fallback is, of course, the icing on the proverbial cake.<\/p>\n
The keyboard isn’t the best at this size, but it’s still doable. The Bluetooth would help. But the tradition of banging out a post on the new device isn’t a chore – no more than on an iPhone, certainly. Would that I remembered the password for the wireless here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Out for my traditional distraction. Fortunately, the bar of my frequency in San Jose has a gas fireplace in the back and a gas stove up front, thus circumventing the ban on burning particulate matter that keeps me from the Riptide in San Francisco for the moment. Cask ale, good reading, and quiet…my own sort … <\/p>\n