I have a tablet PC that I am borrowing from work to see if I like the way it works. As a test of it's usefulness, I'm going to attempt to live-blog at least part of the Giants same. So, let's see how this works...
The Giants score on their first posses, on, after Dallas missed a FG. Guess Vanderjagt doesn't look so bed...
Wacky play - INT by Romo, followed by a fumble. Kiwanuka just can't catch a break. Still, you can't drop that ball.
Dallas TD, after a weak pass interference call. So much for the shut-out...
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So far, so good. The hand writing recognition i5 surprisingly good, but it occasionally does weird stuff.
And now we have 3rd and 15... This is the Giant offense we know and, um, love ?
Shockey drops a pass that hit him right in the hands. Nice work.
I'm listening to the radio call, as usual, Even Dick Lynch can't find anything good to say about Shockey on that play.
Tip for NY : Owens is good. Cover him. Thank you.
End of first quarter. 7-7.
Interception! will Demps manages not to drop it.
Third-down pass to Schockey. Manning and Romo seem to have exchanged brains before the game.
There's the lousy pass we expect from Eli. And now, the obvious throw to Bnrress...
Bob Poppa: Manning threw the jump ban for Burress.
Lynch: That's his style.
Drive stalls after a knucklehead false hustle play by Plaxico. Nice paint, though
I'm leaving OCR errors in, btw.
Nice tackle by Mc Quarters. Wayyy too much time for Romo to pass. H IT HIM, damn you.
Dallas forced to plant. OCR doesn't like "punt" in My normal handwriting. Some genius from Dallas hits the tastefully named Chad Morton after the fair catch.
Manning looks fairly sharp so far. Not much running room for Ti k; Barber, though.
There's a ten-second delay between the tv and the radio call so I get to see the gimmick play to Barber before they explain what went on.
And there's the drive killing penalty. False start, oat of FG range. Thanks, hockey.
Preliminary verdict: blogging by hand is a pain in the ass.
Another false Start. 3rd and 20. Nice pass to Tyree, but just short. fourth and inches.
Jacobs tackled for a loss. Turnover. Could the play call be more obvious? Or dumber?
So, "Rocky Balboa": who is the idiot behind this travesty?
Dallas takes over on downs. Want to bet they score?
Dumbb penalty by Terry Glenn. Draw play, stuffed. Can Dallas get close enough for Grammatica to kick? Of course. Big run off the left side, while all the Giant, looked for a pass. Idiots.
Romo manages to burn most of the clock looking for a receiver, but Grammatica hits the FG. 10-7, Dallas at the half.
That's enough of this experiment, I think.
Comments
# 1 | Jimbo | December 3, 2006 8:02 PM
Tablets, 'eh? I got one about a year ago convinced it would change the way I did lab work. It really is cool, but when taking multimeter readings while balancing on the top rung of a step ladder I prefer a paper lab-book ... not as heavy and unbreakable.
One piece of software that's amazing is MathJournal . It can plot up data in real time from rough scribblings, solve PDEs, plot 3D surfaces.
Oh, and the Times crossword
# 2 | Chad Orzel | December 3, 2006 8:19 PM
One piece of software that's amazing is MathJournal . It can plot up data in real time from rough scribblings, solve PDEs, plot 3D surfaces.
Oh, and the Times crossword
Wow, it does PDE's and the Times crossword, too?
The program's smarter than I am...
I'm thinking about using it for lectures, but if it's going to be at all useful, I need to be able to enter data into it in a reasonable manner. Live-blogging is sort of a silly test, but it did work, more or less.
Entering things one line at a time is a little tedious, though. It turns out, I actually can type slightly faster than I write-- who knew?
# 3 | Mike Kozlowski | December 3, 2006 9:28 PM
If you really want to use the tablet at what it's best at, use something like OneNote, which is designed to be a note-taking and organizing program. You can keep your writings as Ink(tm), and not be forced to OCR them.
(I suspect that OneNote would be more useful for your students than you, though. The ability to record audio while you take notes, and then play back the audio that was recorded around the time you wrote down a particular note would be sweet for clarifying abstruse class note shorthand...)
# 4 | Skwid | December 4, 2006 1:32 PM
You're surprised that you can type faster than you can write? Isn't that part of why typing exists? I can probably type close to three times as fast as I can write...
# 5 | Kate Nepveu | December 4, 2006 1:40 PM
Skwid, you've never seen Chad type.
# 6 | Tom Renbarger | December 4, 2006 11:22 PM
I got a kick out of the Engrish moments in the transcription. After seeing the phrase "false hustle play" I expected a line to the effect that the Giants were playing in their home prefecture.