New phone and stuff.

[mizarchivist]

I seem to be primarily snarky and ranty and argumentative today (and possibly the last few days). It's not my favorite feel.

In potentially related news, I acquired my first smart phone yesterday. It's an iphone 5. Given how much I loathe little keyboards, and the bit where I am usually near a fully functional and full sized computer most of the time, I do not think I'll start being evangelical about it just yet. I mean, I got an ipod touch a year+ ago... it's nice! ...when it works. But it's not yet grafted to my person. My mother reports the sound quality of an actual phone call (because it turns out phones are still used for that antiquted method of communication... did I mention snarky? OK, good). And for that reason alone, my residual reservations started to evaporate.
I got the ibus MBTA app, although I will drop a whole other dollar on a better one if there's a recommendation out there. This one turns out not to have all the features I was hoping it would, so I encourage sharing on this point. I've not done much else other than QA-ed my phone list to make sure everything was there before I deep-6ed the flip phone.  Given I have 2 more trips this summer, and both work-based, I wanted to be more flexible in the tools that make travel and convention-going easier.

I had a nice evening at home- a young friend is working on putting his life together after  a rough year+ and is willing to do some babysitting. So, to minimize the *OMG NO* that I've been dealing with whenever we get a sitter, praps better if the kid hangs out with said future sitter with no pressure. You know? Also help the young friend acclimate to watching this preschooler who was practically an infant the last time he was on the babysitter roster. It went well- I got to eat my dinner without being forced to chase the kid and the big boy and little boy were pleased with each other.

Comments

[samuraizergling.livejournal.com]

For Busses you already know - "CatchTheBus"
for getting from Point ? to Point ?? VIA whatever happens to be the best method right now, "Transit"

Both free, AFAIRemember

Edit: Whoops I forgot. For Subway lines - "Proximi(T)"

[mizarchivist]

For ones I already know, I got the ibus app so I can look up stuff. CKD's suggestion looks stunning, fyi- check it out!

[samuraizergling.livejournal.com]

Yes I like it a lot. :)

[ckd]

For transit of all sorts, I highly recommend TransitApp (see http://thetransitapp.com for info and links). It's now free, but I was willing to pay for a subscription back when that was their business model. Also on Android.

[mizarchivist]

Cool- thanks!

[ceo]

Strongly second Transit. It does this the way I like, which is "here's a map of where you are and these are the nearby buses, how soon they're arriving and where they're going".

ETA: And now I see that I need to update my MBTA icon. :-)

[mizarchivist]

ETA: And now I see that I need to update my MBTA icon. :-)
You are welcome, ha ha!

I've already downloaded the app. I will play with it soon. thanks for the support!

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

hazyjayne seemed to find all the right apps for mass transit when she was visiting last month. If you pinged her I'm sure that she'd be glad to share what worked for her.

[drwex]

Hooray for kid-sitters.