Yesterday, I wrote here how I want an iPhone. After sleeping on it, maybe not. Here's why.
My wife and daughter have cell phones. Their provider is Verizon. Verizon is reputed as having very good coverage in these parts, yet their coverage is very spotty up here on top of Compounce Mountain. Some days there is no signal. Other days you have to stand in just the right place to get a signal. Such is cellular life at 1000 ft ASL; the cellular towers are all below us.
The iPhone's provider is Cingular. Their coverage is reputed as not being as good as Verizon's in these parts. So, an iPhone would likely be useless most of the time up here.
I guess I will stick with my Powerbook using DSL via WIFI.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
iWant iPhone
I never considered owning a cell phone before. My wife and daughter have cell phones, but not I. However, Apple may have pushed me over the brink today when they revealed their new gizmo, the iPhone.
Monday, January 8, 2007
66 on the 6th
The temperature reached an amazing 66°F here in the afternoon on January 6. Other locations in the state were over 70°F.
I remember snowless winters here in the past. Maybe not snowless, but not much snow to speak of, yet those winters were normal temperature-wise, i.e., cold. This winter there has been no snow at all and the temperatures have been mild.
"What's going on?" as Marvin Gaye once sang.
I remember snowless winters here in the past. Maybe not snowless, but not much snow to speak of, yet those winters were normal temperature-wise, i.e., cold. This winter there has been no snow at all and the temperatures have been mild.
"What's going on?" as Marvin Gaye once sang.
Friday, January 5, 2007
Surfin': There's Still Time
There's Still Time is the title of this week's installment of Surfin'. Read about the online time and measurement resources available from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), then leave your comments here.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
baby, it's warm outside
As I write this at 1 PM EST, the temperature at my home weather station is 43°F. Yesterday, the temperature reached 52°F by mid-afternoon.
Snow-wise, I have witnessed a few very light snow flurries maybe three times during the past month, meanwhile, 2006 ended without any snow accumulation this fall and winter.
A broccoli plant grew in my vegetable garden until Thanksgiving when a cold snap seemed to have done it in, but it showed signs of coming back to life in December.
The calendar says "January" and the GPS says that it's 41° 37' 48" North, but it seems like the calendar should say early April or the GPS should be 10 degrees lower.
Weird!
Snow-wise, I have witnessed a few very light snow flurries maybe three times during the past month, meanwhile, 2006 ended without any snow accumulation this fall and winter.
A broccoli plant grew in my vegetable garden until Thanksgiving when a cold snap seemed to have done it in, but it showed signs of coming back to life in December.
The calendar says "January" and the GPS says that it's 41° 37' 48" North, but it seems like the calendar should say early April or the GPS should be 10 degrees lower.
Weird!
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