This collection of entries is from January 27, 2005.
Carol saw this on the way to and from work yesterday, so I popped out at lunch for a few minutes to see what she was talking about.
Over at the old 3com building in Rolling Meadows (I guess it's called the Atrium Conference Center now. We just know it by the crazy architecture) by Golf Road (Ill. 58) and 53 (Ill. 53), a company called Snow Visions, Inc. is presenting the First Annual Chicago Snow Sculpting Competition. Not ice, snow. People use big 6' x 6' x 10' blocks of snow to carve/sculpt things. The competition is supposed to be over the weekend, but I guess it does take time to do these things. Some of the teams were working today. We'll have to stop-by this weekend and see what the finished product looks like.
I've been looking for a watch for almost 3 years. I heard about it in 2002 and had to have one. The company kept delaying and delaying and delaying. Three years. then, when walking through Desert Passage at the Aladdin about two weeks ago I saw it. In the flesh, so to speak. My long three year journey had come to an end.
I bought a Fossil Wrist PDA FX2008. HUH? Yeah, it's a watch... but it also runs Palm OS® 4.1!
I've always liked the idea of having my contacts and schedule with me, but I just didn't like the idea of having to need a Palm or Pocket Windows PDA to do it. This was the perfect marriage of what I needed. It's got the normal apps that a Palm would have. Hell, it's even got Jot built-in so I can take notes right on the face of the watch. It's got a USB adapter for HotSync-ing and an Infrared port for beaming.
Downside? You better have damn good eyesight. The display is only 160 x 160 pixels, and the didn't rescale the type fonts for the form factor. Everything in the apps are there, it's just... it could be a bit "difficult to read" at times.
But you've got all your contact and schedule info with you on your wrist.
Between my watch and my Bluetooth phone with Bluetooth headset, I'm feelin' really geeky right now...