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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2010-05-21 11:47 am
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Google Pac-Man!

I can't keep the Pac-Man flowing....

http://www.google.com/webhp?rls=ig

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a hazard, I tell you - ever time I go to Google I end up playing it.

(And? That a classic game from my youth can now just be a logo animation? It doesn't floor me as much as the 8 gb micro SD card the size of my finger, but oh, I feel old.)

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the advantages of a lifelong love of SF is that somewhere in the back of my mind, huge data storage in small packages has always existed. So that doesn't make me feel nearly as old as seeing bell bottom pants come back....

(And? That a classic game from my youth can now just be a logo animation? It doesn't floor me as much as the 8 gb micro SD card the size of my finger, but oh, I feel old.)

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll admit, what it really had me feeling is "I live in the future!"

And when the internet in our building went down, and the whole lab was connecting through my phone? Oh, yeah. This is the future.

And only in part that gritty dystopian future.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
A little less selfishness in the world, and I think we can have a utopia! Cool with the phone -- I don't know mine that well yet.

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a G1, so it's highly hackable, and I've ripped out the original OS and installed entirely open source bits. Because, you know, I absolutely have to have all my devices on more or less the same OS. (Linux. It's like I left Microsoft and got religion.)

...um, maybe I need a life or something ;-)

But it does mean that I can do some pretty spiffy stuff with it. Even if I've mostly been using it to take pictures of the dove nest and chicks that are in the window over my desk.

OOOOooooOOoooo! Baby birdies!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I love watching nests! That's a great use for it! My pics cannot download with the Sony Ericksson software (see earlier post on same) so I need to get my camera spiffed up again.

Re: OOOOooooOOoooo! Baby birdies!

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I have some of the pictures on my journal - and I swear, they're like half again as big every day.