If you examine popular media images of women using IT, which I did with some reservation during the final semester of my graduate studies, you will find an overrepresentation of relaxed-pose, sitting on the floor, gazing dreamily into the monitor, giggling, languidly stroking a single key on the laptop bullshit.
The pleased and amused me no end, and reminded me of one of the reasons I enjoy poupou’s friendship so very much. Bring it!
Nader or Cobb, wonders Editor B. He is on his way to the Green convention. Appears he deems Ralph undesirable, for reasons of the man’s poor tactical sense.
Ed. Beta threatens to blog the convention. I’m thinking, from up in my tower of dark terror, I will direct a warming beam of sun-lamp-like vigilance in his direction. Fellow perspicatores are invited. B. has a fine track record and if history serves as a guide he will be videotaping every gol-darned secont.
Stops – The Bus Schedule Database for Palm OS Handhelds may be a useful stopgap for the apparent lack of a Seattle-based resource publishing Metro schedules in a palm-readable format.
C’mon, Metro! You already do a great job with getting the data online. Give us some RSS or Atom or something that can get into an AvantGo channel, at least!
Grumble.
Jonh appears to have already written a scraper, but it’s a personal tool and oriented to PDF.
QuickTrip may also be a bit less daunting to set up and use than Stops, I think.
Still, what I really need, I suppose, is a table-viewing application for my decrepit old Vx.