Jackie called out of the blue this morning and opined, begrudgingly, that if I were to get a new Palm of some kind, she could see some advantages to taking over ownership of my current, loverly M130.
My response, of course, was immediate suspicion.
The reasoning she gave referred back to a couple tools that I had with me during our London trip last year, namely:
1. An interactive, searchable Underground Map that not only showed all the stations and tracks but would plot a course for you. This interfaced really well with.
2. GoLondon, which was a huge, if very useful, searchable, travel guide to London that not only listed about every touristyand non-touristy thing one might be interested in, but was kind enough to list phone numbers, addresses and yes, nearest Underground Stations.
Granted, with the Palm Incident of ‘02, I only had a chance to use this gear for the first two days or so, but those were very busy days involving a lot of running around (especially the 10th), so the stuff got a workout and demonstrated it’s greatest saving grace: When you’re peering in confusion at a Palm, you look like you’re working on something… when you’re peering in confusion at a map, you look like someone who can spare some money a tourist.
Also, she mentioned the benefit of being able to keep a thought record while she was there, using the nifty Belkin 700 keyboard that I have for the 130.
Then she mentioned that I didn’t have to make a car payment this month…
I can’t fight off temptation’s like this.
My only real problem is the thought that, if she had a Zire71 with her, she’d have another easy-access camera, but I refrained from mentioning this upside to her.
