Musings

I never tried a photo on my watch before; I knew it was possible, but I didn’t think it was…me. However, peony-watch is a fine look.

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Overall, I think highly of the data my AppleWatch reports. Truth: it does a poor job of counting flights of stairs, always low. However, that count is not a meaningful statistic for me, so I remain happy with ole WanderWatch.

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It’s been a while since I tried this, and I learned that iPhone lenses are still not the best for shots through this kaleidoscope. I’ve lost track of the other marbles for this one, and I recall that their colors are prettier.

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Here’s the history of this image. I stepped out for the post-sunset glow, and the image I preferred was wide-angle. In the app, I reduced the keystoning inherent in wide-angle images with my phone’s lens. [I get tired of looking at keystoned images.] Somehow, it looks…altered, funny, not quite real. With or without keystoning, aren’t both images “real?”

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I wanted to look at the snowflake emoji close up. While researching, I found out this is the Apple snowflake, not The Other Kind. I like that it’s off axis and not exactly aligned up-down, and side-to-side.

A long time ago, I looked at a few snowflakes close up. This is not what they looked like…not delicate enough. But it works great displayed in my texting app.

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You know how you start on one task, and it somehow spawns other tasks? Today’s spawn-task was emptying the vacuuuuuum. This was right after the emptying, hence all the dust bits, I assume static-attracted to the plastic housing.

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So clear this morning, and colorful.

On my walk, I encountered this…device. Parked on the verge and out of traffic on the road and on the sidewalk. On the screen there on the right sticking up, the type indicated it was “in service.” No evidence of anything being served.

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One of the impactful benefits of academic publications shifting to digital rather than dead tree versions is that the graphics have improved greatly…by adding lotso color.

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Sometimes, sometimes, the product of the algorithms in the phone-camera matches my aesthetics.

Note how there’s both green grass and autumnal golden fallen leaves.

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Tuesday, Apple announced product upgrades…including to AppleWatches. I have last-year’s model, and I’m glad to have it, but I don’t believe it is accurate in recording several data types. For some years, it has been complaining about excessive sound levels nearly every time I take a shower…and at no other time (not that I spend time around amps). I have decided this has to do with water hitting the watch and not the sound in the shower space…so I ignore it.

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