CaptainOrange

A response to Federico’s  concern that series 3 users are all like his mom ( Connected #334 ) . I feel like I may be getting a bit more than my Mickey Mouse’s worth from this thing. But, I’ll let you be the judge of that. For the oddly curious, I've previously done a (handwritten) review of the series 3 , in 2018. Also, the series 0 , in 2015 General Use Pattern I put on my watch first thing in the morning (6:30am) and take it off when I go to bed (10:30pm).  Mostly, the watch serves as a way to get silent notifications (I hate phone pings and constant phone glancing), and to add items to my todo, omnifocus, and grocery lists. I also use it disturbingly often to locate my misplaces phone :) There are typically three scenarios where I might remove it during the day: top-up charging, photography, keynote slideshow (see below) Exercise I track yoga and walking exercise after breakfast. Then I may track a run or VR exercise playing Beat Saber. Pre-pandemic I ran a lot of s...

Late February... I’ve suffered my winter darkness and am considering emerging. I started working on this updated Apple Watch review/rumination several months ago and have just got around to finishing it. For what it’s worth... If you want to read my first impressions and review of the Series 0, you can find them as follows: http://captainorange.blogspot.ca/2015/05/apple-watch-its-about-f-ing-time.html http://captainorange.blogspot.ca/2015/05/apple-watch-ii-more-reviewy-review.html

I'm writing this to you from the future and reliving the past This was my first tech love. Well... if you don't count Meccano, or the Colecovision... I don't remember the exact year. I was 11 or 12 and this was one of my Christmas presents. A digital watch with AM radio and headphone jack. The reception wasn't perfect, but if I held my arm just right while I was delivering the PA Daily Herald to my customers on 4th St E, I could listen to Billy Jean by MJ and Maneater by Hall and Oates. It was heaven. Sadly, it was chewed into submission by our family dog after, what I remember as, all too short a season :( There have been many gadgets between then and now. My first MP3 player was in 1998, the year Leo was born. It allowed me to travel with music of not much better sound quality than my beloved radio watch--only now I could choose the songs and the order. By '98, I was far more mature in my musical stylings. I listened to Surprise You're Dead and Zo...