Got the oil changed in my car....
Sep. 16th, 2009 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prusikI have it done at the dealer because it's near work. I can go early in the morning and still get to work on time. Also, they have WiFi in the waiting area. I can get work done while I'm waiting for the car. (i.e., I can get an early start on the work day or I can work from the dealer if car stuff takes longer than expected.)
This means I only ever need a laptop 4 times a year. Ok, since that's technically not true. My laptop is a tablet PC so I also use it for some document mark up and Chinese handwriting recognition. However, I've been doing most of that on my iPhone recently.
The obvious next question then is, "Can I use my iPhone and not bother with the laptop?"
I brought the laptop anyway, just in case I was wrong. Also, I ended up not doing any work work at the dealer. What I did instead was work on my short story du jour. Since bits of it are in Chinese, the iPhone was actually the easiest way of writing those bits. (As long as I get the stroke direction right, iPhone OS is more accurate than WinXP tablet if only because iPhone OS gives me four alternatives at once.) However, I now want a English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary for iPhone that lets me copy out of it.
Obviously, I don't type on the iPhone virtual keyboard anywhere near as quickly as I do with a real keyboard. However, for composing text off the top of my head, I don't feel like it got in the way. I typed 200+ words over at most 45 minutes (including a bunch of look ups in the Chinese-English dictionary and think time). The whole curling up somewhere and making progress on my story thing is totally doable. A hypothetical 4000 word day would probably kill me. (OTOH, I don't have 4000 word days with a normal keyboard.)
Just thought that was an interesting data point. (i.e., my iPhone may have become my laptop... unless I go to Clarion.)
This means I only ever need a laptop 4 times a year. Ok, since that's technically not true. My laptop is a tablet PC so I also use it for some document mark up and Chinese handwriting recognition. However, I've been doing most of that on my iPhone recently.
The obvious next question then is, "Can I use my iPhone and not bother with the laptop?"
I brought the laptop anyway, just in case I was wrong. Also, I ended up not doing any work work at the dealer. What I did instead was work on my short story du jour. Since bits of it are in Chinese, the iPhone was actually the easiest way of writing those bits. (As long as I get the stroke direction right, iPhone OS is more accurate than WinXP tablet if only because iPhone OS gives me four alternatives at once.) However, I now want a English-Chinese/Chinese-English dictionary for iPhone that lets me copy out of it.
Obviously, I don't type on the iPhone virtual keyboard anywhere near as quickly as I do with a real keyboard. However, for composing text off the top of my head, I don't feel like it got in the way. I typed 200+ words over at most 45 minutes (including a bunch of look ups in the Chinese-English dictionary and think time). The whole curling up somewhere and making progress on my story thing is totally doable. A hypothetical 4000 word day would probably kill me. (OTOH, I don't have 4000 word days with a normal keyboard.)
Just thought that was an interesting data point. (i.e., my iPhone may have become my laptop... unless I go to Clarion.)
