Not that I was gonna get one anyway, but apparently I’m “incompatible” with Apple’s new watch. Because I have a tattoo. At least that’s what I was thinking when I read one misleading headline (but obviously effective clickbait – not unlike the one I’ve paired with this very piece) about their watches not working on humans who’ve been perma-doodled. “What’s this, Ashley? Is Apple racist against the indelibly inked now?”.. Read More
A brief explanache on where you can shove your updates up and into.
So, a couple months ago, I reluctantly updated my iphone. I hadn’t done it for a while, so it went from version 1-point-have-you-heard-of-this-new-thing-called-the-wheel to the latest: iOS-can-I-have-the-old-one-back-immediately-please. I was momentarily relieved (as I indicated in a blog entry) because the rewards were many. And money. Literally – ‘cause I’d only done it so I could use a new and improved app that’d replace the abomination called Paypal. This was a.. Read More
Will we die from a solar flare or smartphone withdrawal first?
Afraid of catching cancer in these last dog day rays of summer? Don’t be! ‘cause there’s plenty of other ways the sun can kill you! Like the solar flare headed for earth! (Jesus. Sometimes I forget just how small we are.) Actually, we don’t have to worry about leaping tongues of fire raining on us like lightning streaks from Olympus just yet (hopefully). The recent X class magnetic explosion that.. Read More
Data usage: just another reason I hate my phone
About ten months ago, I quit painkillers for my back – and replaced them with yoga. I quit benzos for my social anxiety – and replaced them with jedi-mind tricks. But I had no idea that my long standing addiction to Apple would be as expensive as my literal other-fruit addictions are every week at Wegman’s. That is – not until I started getting those annoying little messages about using.. Read More