Fun With Technology: Girls With Gadgets

I like gadgets, not purely for their gadgetry but for the life and love and memories we pour into them which then spring out of them. There's some of all that right here on this page.

Key to my love of gadgets is Ian Broyles who, I can fairly say, has been at my side for most of my groundbreaking gadget purchases throughout the past eight years.

Most recently, these include an LG enV phone and a Canon PowerShot TX 1. Both of these items fit in my purse!

I love the LG phone because I can check my email on the road and actually answer it without having to know what BRB or G2G means, (be right back and got to go) because the phone flips open to reveal a querty keyboard. You get to type entire words just like in life. It is also a full speaker phone once you pop it open. The phone takes 15 second videos, a feature which I find completely useless. Not nearly enough time to catch a celebrity destroying his career.

But it takes pretty good photos for a phone as I will demonstrate, below...


The Santa Barbara sky was doing something rather weird as I walked to Bricks with my cousin's cousin (cc if you're chatting on a regular phone) so we pulled out the phone and documented it in case NASA calls.


I got a collect call from Inmate Number 6341. I did not accept the call because I am so sick of talking to my Mom. Ha ha, that's a funny joke. She hasn't done time in years. And in case you weren't going to believe that I got a phone call from prison, I took a picture of my phone with my phone.


Fini has a new bit where she talks to a hand puppet. For about five months she was doing the piece while talking to her hand which she was calling "Porkchop." Then she went home to visit her parents and apparantly had a lot of time to sew this puppet which I thought was very close to the funniest thing I had ever seen, so I pulled out my phone and took a picture.


The night "Porkchop" made her debut was also the night that Fini's brother, Devon Goodman made his first and triumphant standup comedy appearance. He was great. Yea, Devon! Good luck ever being emotionally sound now.


Fritz and Corey Coleman were their own stage hands at Fritz's new play, "Tonight at 11" while I stood around and took pictures with my phone.

On to the next gadget. It's called a Canon PowerShot TX1 and it's extremely mini. It's both a video and still camera and it fits in your pocket. (as long as your pants are too big or you're wearing a jacket) But it's really small, about 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches and a little over an inch wide.

I've been taking a lot of photos and videos with it, which those around me have come to find rather annoying. Here are some pictures...



Weezy & The Swish celebrated its 100th podcast by inviting all 99 previous guests. Most knew better than to show up. But many did and left early such as Lisa Arch, Tom Clark, Graham Elwood and Fini Goodman. A few got caught in this photo such as my Mom, Ruthie Palanker, Me, a guy Kyle is coaching, Matt Sigman, Kevin's girlfriend, Courtney, Kevin Cease and Kyle Cease. Smart enough to show up too late was Wayne Federman.


Ian took many cool photos during the 100th podcast, including this one of Me, Siggy and Graham.


And this one of Kyle.

And he shot some video, from which I edited this little 100th episode video blog.



After the podcast we went to the pub where Bob Cowsill and the band were playing. It was a Pink Ribbon Benefit night and I was in charge of auctioning off baskets of great stuff.

I took this picture of Bob through the baskets. Very decorative.


Ian deserved and enjoyed a beer.

If you've read this far, you've earned and should enjoy this last soothing video, shot in Santa Barbara...



For more videos, go to my videos on Vimeo and my videos on You Tube.

If you'd like to hear the Centenial Podcast go to Weezy & The Swish!

Have a safe and healthy week!