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ellarienI went out this afternoon in quest of a Palm TX (and add-on keyboard), which I'd convinced myself was the solution to my writing-on-the-go problem.
Best Buy, which is closest to the bus station, doesn't have a PDA section.
OfficeMax, next door, had a forlorn ticket on the shelf, to be taken to the cashier, but no accessories, no service plans, no service. There might have been a cashier around somewhere, but I didn't look too hard.
Circuit City is on the wrong side of an east-west street south of the mall, with no crosswalks for half a mile, so I ended up walking all the way over to the next major north-south street and then back. They also don't have a PDA section.
CompUSA is north of the mall, over the river and past the Sam's Club. They had a forlorn little display of four switched-off demo models squeezed between the mobile phones and the MP3 players. I asked an assistant, when one finally happened by, and he told me that they didn't actually have any to sell; they've been discontinued, but are still available on line. I wonder if non-phone PDAs are simply not in demand any more?
I think I'll just stick to the composition book.
On the other hand, I did discover a nifty little gadget whose existence I had never previously suspected; a teeny-tiny video recorder (about the size of my TV remote) that records to flash memory cards. I wonder if this is how all those illegally-downloadable TV shows get out there? Me, I just want to do a bit of timeshifting so I don't have to stay up past my bedtime to watch the Dresden Files, but the thought of being able to watch the result on my iPod is quite appealing.
(Update: it works, too, though I had to disconnect the DVD player to plug it into the RF coupler. Next up, an AV splitter?)
And then I walked back to the bus station, just missed a bus, walked the mile-and-a-half home along the river bank, stopped off at Trader Joe's on the way for some more interesting food than my local Safeway can offer, and arrived home round about the time the next bus would have been leaving.
Best Buy, which is closest to the bus station, doesn't have a PDA section.
OfficeMax, next door, had a forlorn ticket on the shelf, to be taken to the cashier, but no accessories, no service plans, no service. There might have been a cashier around somewhere, but I didn't look too hard.
Circuit City is on the wrong side of an east-west street south of the mall, with no crosswalks for half a mile, so I ended up walking all the way over to the next major north-south street and then back. They also don't have a PDA section.
CompUSA is north of the mall, over the river and past the Sam's Club. They had a forlorn little display of four switched-off demo models squeezed between the mobile phones and the MP3 players. I asked an assistant, when one finally happened by, and he told me that they didn't actually have any to sell; they've been discontinued, but are still available on line. I wonder if non-phone PDAs are simply not in demand any more?
I think I'll just stick to the composition book.
On the other hand, I did discover a nifty little gadget whose existence I had never previously suspected; a teeny-tiny video recorder (about the size of my TV remote) that records to flash memory cards. I wonder if this is how all those illegally-downloadable TV shows get out there? Me, I just want to do a bit of timeshifting so I don't have to stay up past my bedtime to watch the Dresden Files, but the thought of being able to watch the result on my iPod is quite appealing.
(Update: it works, too, though I had to disconnect the DVD player to plug it into the RF coupler. Next up, an AV splitter?)
And then I walked back to the bus station, just missed a bus, walked the mile-and-a-half home along the river bank, stopped off at Trader Joe's on the way for some more interesting food than my local Safeway can offer, and arrived home round about the time the next bus would have been leaving.
