Some tools for a stroll.
The umbrella… well… it is London. The pint… well… I was thirsty. The iPhone… well… full browser. I got a cool rechargeable pack since these instruments are so power hungry. It sure helped today! As the phone ran down, I plugged it in and kept working! Useful for an iPod too.
In the meantime, back at the ranch, my laptop now has little stickers on the keyboard so I can more easily toggle between a US and Italian layout!
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…” on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Where’d the stickers come from?
They are pretty neat!
I wouldn’t mind getting a “German” set, if possible… :-D
I’m not sure what you mean by “Italian layout”. If you are using m$oft windows, you can load the “us international keyboard” and type all the acutes, graves, and circumflexes, including the digraphs “ae” and “oe” (which I never use). E.g. for an acute “e”, you type “apostrophe e” and for a “grave” i.e. Cività, you type a reverse apostrophe (on my keyboard the same as the tilde key).
Umlauts are just a double quote plus the vowel – á ë ï o ü ÿ – yes, they work on non-German vowels as well. Also, the Scandinavian languages have their mappings as well.
For Eastern European (Slavic Latinization) there are individual keyboards. Also for kirilica. They are all “phonetic” in that the “a” is where an American keyboard expects it to be, etc.
I have typed for years in my languages using the “phonetic” keyboards. I have totally forgotten how to type in Russian using a real Russian keyboard. I once typed a thesis on one too! Computers are supposed to make simple things intuitive, and sometimes they do.
Oops – I see my umlauts have failed – ä ë ï ö ü ÿ – sorry!
Father,
Do you seriously have that many applications on your iphone?
sekman, I don’t know about Father Z, but I have 58 on mine (so far), counting the ones that were installed on it when it arrived.
My goal is to never need to carry a laptop with me again.
But I really should look into getting one of those power pack thingies …
I’ve been eye-balling those battery add-ons for the iPhone.
Power-hungry is an understatement and there are simply so many wonderful things to do with your phone that it’s hard to control one’s use by keeping an eye on the battery indicator when traveling.
I wish my iPhone were in London right now (and me with it).
I just discovered the most useful Catholic prayer application on the iPhone. It’s called iPieta. It has the Douay-Rheims and Latin Vulgate Bibles, English and Latin readings of the day, any prayer you can think of to Jesus, Mary, Joseph, or the saints, the Baltimore Catechism, Intro to the Devout Life, Imitation, Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, St. Louis Marie de Montfort, St. John Marie Vianney, St. Teresa of Jesus, St. Catherine of Siena, plus the St. Thomas and Roman Catechisms.
Technology really can help your prayer life. And it’s only $3!
DustyD-oooo, IPieta sounds really cool!
I only have a ‘regular’ cellphone…not a lot of ‘bells and whistles’!