More appreciation of the kindle scribe and the handwriting process.

Originally handwritten from my kindle, posted with minimal edits.

The difference between writing a blogpost on a laptop when people are around, and writing with a pen on  paper-like device is bigger than I would have imagined. With the first, people assume you are bored with the present company and are trying to find a distraction. And of course writing on a laptop screen is so god damn distracting! Even if you tell yourself you have to finish writing such and such many words in so much time, you can't do it because your brain comes up with excuses to go somewhere else. Plus people don't take you seriously& you look otherwise engaged.

With a tablet writing however, your face is not blocked by a shiny screen, the device is on the table and you look like quite the intellectual writing. Plus your eyes are not obstru­cted from looking around, and your posture is quite casual, and does not signal 'I want to get out of the social interaction ASAP! Which is... good, no?

I've been rambling on about this for days and days but tablet waiting with handwriting recognition really seems to fit the perfect niche-me that@ meets the physical and the digital. To put it a bit more dorkily... pen-on-paper as an input device for computers are a lot socially acceptable and internalized means verses keyboard-on-screen. And that's just one of the many benefits of the input mechanism. I feel bad talking about this so often.. evangelizing it so much, but this is something I have come to truly believe in This the excitement of a true convert, except the convent has discovered the hidden meaning of the... a very small subsystem of their personal micro-universe.

Exciting times are ahead!!!