Smartphone & I are Insufferable Weatherwomen
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amarie24Like, ya'll. It's...just incredible 'cause I'm Super Duper Excitable & Grateful Black Gal #1.
My. Phone. Shows. The. Weather. For. Free.
OMFG.
I have never once been able to just check the weather with a simple click and swipe of my finger. (Uhhh..."click"? Is that right word, technically? You know, for a touchscreen? Is it???)
And so you know what I've been doing? On the way to school, I literally briefed my mom on the weather. While we were in the car. A car with windows. Where we can see the weather.
I did it again, not five minutes ago while my mom was taking a bath. My mom saw the phone in my hands and burst out laughing as I asked, "Hey, want a weather update, Mama? The temperature has climbed since this morning! It's phenomenal! You should see it!"
And I literally sat there on the toilet beside my laughing mother while she bathed and told her all about the weather. We are weatherwomen, my phone and I. :D
I've also given my phone a gender & name: she is "Bleepy" because of the sound she makes when I unlock the screen. :D :D :D
Does anyone wanna know the weather? :D
My. Phone. Shows. The. Weather. For. Free.
OMFG.
I have never once been able to just check the weather with a simple click and swipe of my finger. (Uhhh..."click"? Is that right word, technically? You know, for a touchscreen? Is it???)
And so you know what I've been doing? On the way to school, I literally briefed my mom on the weather. While we were in the car. A car with windows. Where we can see the weather.
I did it again, not five minutes ago while my mom was taking a bath. My mom saw the phone in my hands and burst out laughing as I asked, "Hey, want a weather update, Mama? The temperature has climbed since this morning! It's phenomenal! You should see it!"
And I literally sat there on the toilet beside my laughing mother while she bathed and told her all about the weather. We are weatherwomen, my phone and I. :D
I've also given my phone a gender & name: she is "Bleepy" because of the sound she makes when I unlock the screen. :D :D :D
Does anyone wanna know the weather? :D
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Date: 2015-07-07 07:23 pm (UTC)Whoa, that's a super fast charge! o.o Mine sits on its charger overnight.
...right? I still own cassette tapes and VHS... not that anything can read them any more. orz The VHS player died well before the tapes. And now it's all Blu-Ray and hi-def TVs and I still cannot keep all those abbreviations for the eleventy different kinds (!) in my head, but it doesn't matter because I can use my camera-equipped, wireless-networked pocket-supercomputer** to look for someone else's expertise, standing right there on the floor in the shop!
... yeah, I am That Person. Sorry.
Still, though.
*Gigabytes, "gigs" in computer slang, measurement for data by volume. My apologies if this is unnecessary or 'splainy; I hear a lot of confusion about this.
**There's a factoid going around that each smartphone has more raw computing power than all of NASA in 1969. They put a guy on the moon with that.
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Date: 2015-07-08 06:49 pm (UTC)And as for how fast mine charges...well, my wittle Bleepy here is just a lil' baby. I literally took her out of the box this Monday. So maybe that's why? :O
RIP to VHS players, the tapes and all the like. You know, we were very, very lucky to find a VHS-DVD player, but you know how quickly lucky shit like that fades. Ahhh, I been watching my "Beauty & the Beast" and "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" while doing my homework. Yep, yep.
As far as wireless-networked pocket supercomputer...I need wifi. I heard from a dear friend at school today that wifi is my best friend...