I should do another week test run of the pebble, it was one of those things where it was just on the verge of being useful enough to use all the time, but not quite there due to form factor
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
I have coworkers who are like the biggest nerds imaginable and they have those motorola smart watches and shit, I should see if they still use them
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
one of the weird things abt this is how its trying so hard to be fashion, like who is it for, obvs generally apples market is anyone who can afford their devices, but this idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
feel like johnny ive/apple is very much believing their own hype
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
need someone (steve job) to yell at them
tell them they are dumb and useless
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I need a NERV mug so badly
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if gruber and marco flirted remotely with their watches
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jtJgigJ.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
How did he put it on his wrist
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
lol
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
The reviews seem to me to be dancing around saying it's basically too slow and too dumb and unlike the OG iPhone (which was also both) isn't quite compelling enough to make you put up with it until they sort it.
Going to be really interesting to see how this pans out.
― stet, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
john herrman is the best tech blog man going http://www.theawl.com/2015/04/an-asshole-theory-of-the-apple-watch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I feel like he is on to something
then again, the other thing about getting your phone out to check something pretty much guarantees you are either going to - spend a few seconds retrieving it from your pocket and putting it back - embark on a couple minutes of checking twitter or w/e because you already got your phone out
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah kind of, i find it hard to believe that checking the watch is going to be appreciably faster/less intrusive than checking the phone. it's not too hard to quickly check a notification on your phone with some subtlety.
it's the decision to pause what you're doing and respond, or to go off and do something else on your phone, that is an avoidable behavior and also the behavior that is actually rude.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
also i'm still dying at this verge tech bro who didn't know that repeatedly checking your watch is considered rude by, like, all of society
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
its like when google glass explorers were shocked that ppl didnt like having their picture taken w/o permission and blamed it on the fact that it was new technology
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
that is an avoidable behavior and also the behavior that is actually rude.
it's not, though! people will kind of glance and their phone and sometimes multiple people will kind of do that while conversing or floating in and out of conversation
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
I have only ever been called out on this once, and it was when I obviously thought a work meeting was boring as shit and I was reading twitter or w/e
u were tweeting "this meeting is boring as shit" and ur boss was reading ur tweet
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
the dude who mentioned that actually got laid off, although I like him as a coworker!
tbh an odd number of my nemeses were on the list of people laid off at the beginning of this year
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
good job taking them out
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
There is also one scenario where Apple Watch is far superior to my regular watches when checking the time: in the dark. Also, though it sounds trivial, I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.
wat
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
You’re flirting. Not through words. Not through speech. Physically flirting, by touch. And you’re not even in the same classroom. Maybe you don’t even go to the same school.
jesus
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
― mh, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
now you can check twitter on the clock with impunity
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Does the Apple second hand do that continuous rotate thing
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
There is also one scenario where Apple Watch is far superior to my regular watches when checking the time: in the dark. Also, though it sounds trivial, I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.wat
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 3:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait this is insane, he knows there are sweep second hands right?
― brunch technician (silby), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
sweep second hands generally do it by ticking 6 or 8 times a second, which makes them look smooth. Pure spring-driven sweep exists too, but it's pretty rare.
― stet, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/585925773422264320
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
have they not heard of a... rolex
― mh, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
jeez why didn't the verge put their watch reviews editor on this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 10 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
"I SAY TO-MAH-TO"
Of course you do.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:57 (nine years ago) link
saw a guy running in a daring fireball tee today he was a weird super fit old guy wearing running sandals
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
or at least running in sandals but i bet they r special running sandals
i have seen him tons of times before on the running loop but he was never wearing the tee
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
looked like these shits
http://i.imgur.com/JU91sRZ.jpg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
Look at that silky thread
― 龜, Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
beautifully, unapologetically hooved
― sktsh, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
lmao nice
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
owned
http://i.imgur.com/kVcuuwZ.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
John Gruber is a savage who leaves his periods outside of quotation marks
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
no thats actually good and logical
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah
― brunch technician (silby), Thursday, 23 April 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
I can confirm, English written conventions are wrong
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
lol "english" good luck usa
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
sorry caek, it's our language now
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
latest post is possibly peak gruber: watch talk, bond talk, and apple fellatio. if only he could have found a way to tie kubrick and helvetica in, too
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
yankees, rolling stones
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
i want to write a long read gruber hit piece but that wld be such a self own
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
lol please do it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link