[Leica] August 29th Apocalyptic Dysphoria; Pictures on your watch.

Mark Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com
Sun Aug 30 19:07:27 PDT 2015 

I got a Casio with LCD  right here wait I'll show it too you......
I had tried to use a watch or two with a silicone band so I always had
cortisone on my shopping list or some medicine to rub on my wrist first
before I put my watch on or I'd get a rash which made it so my watch ended
up for most the day in my pocket where it would get smooshed.. Those for the
most part are Swatch watches. I did a big Swatch watch add by the way once
for a department store I had to use their Normans  (from the Norman
conquest) instead of my Balcars (French!) so I didn't have a clue took me
all day.


On 8/30/15 9:23 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> After a company presentation Bulova and gift Accutron both quit on me, I
> went to the local Wal-Mart and bought a Casio with LCD display for a lot
> less than your price point.  Setting it up takes an instruction sheet,
> as do DST changes, but, other than that, it just runs and runs.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 8/30/2015 7:48 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> Its confusing perhaps the apple watch coming in two sizes and there is the
>> pixel size vs. the millimeter size of both. I'm betting that had Dick Tracy
>> had the option he'd have gone with a smaller dial size. That thing had to
>> get in the way when he was collaring a perp... get  caught on something.
>> Coincidently I'm down a watch.  There is no watch on my wrist for a month
>> now this is a new first a new low I was saving for a new lens now I'm saving
>> for a new laptop.
>> I have like a lot of people (guys?) a cigarbox filled with cheap watches
>> which don't work. The question being which one to bring in and try to get
>> fixed and for how much? This is complicated by living in NYC with everyone
>> sworn to rip you off like the dog which you are.
>> Getting one fixed cost the same as fixing an old one would be the thing. The
>> thing which has made for a cigar box filled with mystery watches  (what went
>> wrong with this one?)
>> All I really want is a Timex like I had as a kid in the 50's (in NY). To get
>> one I need a Time machine you sit in and a big wheel goes round and round as
>> designed by George Pal.
>> Using an iPhone for a pocket watch is very common right not but its not me.
>> I'm a watch  guy.
>> I want something on my wrist which shows me the time and looks like a watch.
>> It dos not have to light up and say "kiss me baby".
>> The step counter in my iPhone I find to be quite a deal changer since May
>> I've done well with it its called Pacer and like many things free it acts
>> like it. I've lost a ton of weight and can see clearly when I'm sloughing
>> off or being erratic and by how much.
>> I need something which cost real money and works really with an interface
>> not designed by a mouseketeer. .
>> A Fitbit on my wrist might be the thing. Or another of the dozen brands.
>> They all look like watches. I guessing they are watches.
>> My price point is $99.
>> When its overcast my sundial does not work so well.
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/30/15 7:49 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>> What you are quoting is the overall case size.  The screen size on the
>>> large one is slightly larger than 24x30mm, and they show an add whereby
>>> the entire screen is filled with thumbnails, so I assume you can display
>>> a single image to that size.
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
>>> On 8/30/2015 6:05 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>> The apple watch shows you an image just slightly larger than an individual
>>>> image in a 35mm contact sheet.  Around 40mm long.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/29/15 10:48 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> During the depression years of the 1930s, the Direct Positive "4 for a
>>>>> dime" pictures served that purpose.  They were inexpensive and filled a
>>>>> need at the time.  I still have a few of them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/29/2015 9:43 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>> I have a photo history book and they are talking about Daguerreotypes
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> Tintypes being made 1 inch square or smaller and the size was called
>>>>>> "Gem".
>>>>>> The little gems that they were. I think often copied from a larger image.
>>>>>> The issue being I think not size but the bottom line. Money.
>>>>>> Shrink it till they feel they can afford it. So what if they cant see it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 8/29/15 10:25 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have no interest at all in the watch.  It may be handy for reminders,
>>>>>>> etc.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Images that size remind me of the stickpin portrait that my great-great
>>>>>>> aunt had of her dead husband.  It was sepia, and about the size of a
>>>>>>> "pinky" nail.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 8/29/2015 9:19 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>>>> The point of the small screen is to just see what you can see and not
>>>>>>>> care
>>>>>>>> about what you can't. The point is instant ness and ease. IPhone
>>>>>>>> photography
>>>>>>>> has established that. Most won't take it from there. Now if you could
>>>>>>>> project the image like a clock radio on the ceiling....!! THEN you
>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>>> how really bad it is.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 8/29/15 10:13 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I realize that, Leo, but have not really looked into what can be seen
>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>> the small screen.  I'm not sure my eyes would work with details that
>>>>>>>>> small. :-)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 8/29/2015 9:10 PM, Leowesson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Jim,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> The Iwatch acts as a remote for the iPhone it is paired with.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Leo Wesson
>>>>>>>>>> leowesson.com
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Aug 29, 2015, at 21:01, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Mark,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I have to admit that I have gone part way down that route.  In order
>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> conveniently use text messaging, I recently purchased an iPhone.
>>>>>>>>>>> Now,
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> camera is quite good, but I don't like the images as they come out
>>>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> camera.  I run them through my editing workflow like any other
>>>>>>>>>>> camera
>>>>>>>>>>> images, except they are jpg, which limits the process.  Finished
>>>>>>>>>>> images
>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>> pretty good.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Now, the second part.  I have my LUG gallery bookmarked.  If I want
>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> share
>>>>>>>>>>> an image or two with a friend or relative, I just open up my LUG
>>>>>>>>>>> gallery
>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>> touch the thumbnails along the side until I find what I want.  It
>>>>>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>>>>>> been
>>>>>>>>>>> quite useful, and, on the iPhone 6 screen, the images look pretty
>>>>>>>>>>> good,
>>>>>>>>>>> though limited in size.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Incidentally, my grandson's wife has an Apple watch, and likes it. I
>>>>>>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>>>>>>> asked if it can do images.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>>>>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/29/2015 8:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> One of the rare occasions in which Brian got involved in a thread
>>>>>>>>>>>> way
>>>>>>>>>>>> way
>>>>>>>>>>>> back in the turn of the century or millennium  we were talking
>>>>>>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> demise of craft and print making and how things were going the way
>>>>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> jpeg and people not showing you their prints but showing you their
>>>>>>>>>>>> jpegs
>>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>>>> a small screen like from an iPod. (a thing which played music)
>>>>>>>>>>>> Someone
>>>>>>>>>>>> joked maybe it was me that soon we'd be viewing each others pix on
>>>>>>>>>>>> our
>>>>>>>>>>>> Dick
>>>>>>>>>>>> Tracy wrist watches and that was shot down as being too Apocalyptic
>>>>>>>>>>>> Dysphoric. I wonder if its still in the archives?
>>>>>>>>>>>> In the past few years when the iPhones took over and those screens
>>>>>>>>>>>> became
>>>>>>>>>>>> the main viewing ground for seeing sobodies photo work; it was
>>>>>>>>>>>> looking
>>>>>>>>>>>> bad
>>>>>>>>>>>> but it got worse. The Apple watch came out and I've not seen one in
>>>>>>>>>>>> person
>>>>>>>>>>>> yet. But I was wondering if you can view pix on them. I just
>>>>>>>>>>>> checked.
>>>>>>>>>>>> You can.
>>>>>>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/watch/built-in-apps/
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> "the smaller 38mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 272 x 340, while
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> larger 42mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 312 x 390. "  they are
>>>>>>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>>>>>>> 40mm's in height.
>>>>>>>>>>>> So things will get dumbed down even further. Or they already have.
>>>>>>>>>>>> If things can get worse but I think it would have to start with the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Apple
>>>>>>>>>>>> iGlass.  Little high tech eye glasses.
>>>>>>>>>>>> So when it used to be people were really listening to you talking
>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>> them
>>>>>>>>>>>> instead of their little earphone  ( just happened in the apple
>>>>>>>>>>>> store)
>>>>>>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>>>>>>> its not just not you they are listening to. They're not seeing you
>>>>>>>>>>>> either.
>>>>>>>>>>>> They are watching the readout. What Arnold saw in T1.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> * The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are
>>>>>>>>>>>> removed
>>>>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>>>> strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It
>>>>>>>>>>>> becomes
>>>>>>>>>>>> self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they
>>>>>>>>>>>> try
>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>> pull the plug.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
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