The rain is out there
My current object of gadgetlust: the Samsung i500 Palm phone (Times review). Mmm. I’ve been looking to replace my old Kyocera Smartphone for a long while now. The i500 is a bit pricey though, especially considering all I really want out of the PDA functions is the contact management, and not so much the calendar and scheduling, or even the wireless web capabilities, etc. Hm. We’ll see.
Speaking of gadgets, albeit a very low-tech one, I left my umbrella on the Metro this morning. Grr. Oh well, it wasn’t even really my umbrella to begin with. One rainy day in June, I had swiped it from the umbrella stand inside the entrance to H&M, after discovering that my umbrella had been swiped from the stand while I was shopping. And that umbrella, in turn, was one I had taken a couple months ago in New York, during a similar unscrupulous switcharoo. Who are you people, taking my umbrella?! The lesson here: don’t leave your gear at the entrance to a crowded store, or only do so at your smaller, finer retail establishments. I swear, there’s some kind of cosmic redistribution of umbrellas going on.
I just filed a lost-and-found claim with Metro (which was easy enough to do online), but I think I’ll stop by Hechts after work anyway to get a nice new Totes, like my beloved automatic-closing original which I had before the recent spate of umbrella abductions. Maybe this time I should implant some kind of homing chip in the handle.
Update (18:35): Of course, now it’s all bright and sunny outside.