Hints and Guesses

Should I be watching television?

Why I voted for Mitt Romney

Sure hope it doesn’t backfire.

Rob Beschizza in Wired sums up why I don’t have a cell phone.

I’m no Luddite. I can imagine circumstances in which I would gladly pay for a cell phone. But since I turned mine in five years ago, I’ve encountered only a few situations in which I might have wanted one.

A moment ago, it dashed across the living room floor, paused underneath the coffee table, and then fled under the couch.

I am alone with this mouse.

I foresee a trip to the hardware store this afternoon.

I once owned a fine price book program called Price-It!. Price-It! for Palm was created by Blue Robin Technologies (formerly at http://www.bluerobintech.com, and I don’t recommend visiting that address).

Not only was Price-It! a fine price book program, it’s the only price book program I’ve ever found. Price-It! installs both on the Palm and on the desktop, which makes it easy to stand in the store and collect or use data as well as to work with it at home.

Sometime last year I noticed that the link between my handheld version and the desktop version had been broken. Not only that, but the CD onto which I had copied the installation file had gone missing, so re-installation was not an option. I went online to get a new installation file, only to discover that Blue Robin Technologies was out of business and Price-It! was no longer available. Nowhere, nohow.

I’m hoping to get a new Palm later this year, and when the old one goes, so does the only copy of Price-It I own. I would dearly love to get another one, somehow, some way.

Hence this plea: if you have a copy and no longer need it, I’d be happy to take it. Please contact me by e-mail.

After years without one, I bought a camera.

I’ve had my eye on the Lumix DMC-TZ1 ever since I read Kevin Kelly’s recommendation on Cool Tools. While I researched reasons not to buy it, one of the reasons I settled on it was the 10x optical zoom—the last camera in the family had a puny 3x zoom, and I knew I wanted more in the next camera.

This one is also small enough to fit into my purse, but heavy enough to warrant removing some of the items I typically carry. There aren’t many to start with, so wielding the axe will be a painful process.

These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages