Monday, June 20, 2011

On my two loves; one new, one deeper

It's been a while since my last post. The reason for this is that I have been spending the last week with AquaAnalogueGirlfriend. We don't get to see each other often during the summer, as we are separated by 5 hours of earthborne travel. I apologise for waiting so long between posts, but being the deeper of the two eponymous loves covered in this post, she comes first; my time with her is limited, and must be savoured (like good wine) and greedily absorbed (like good potato crisps) at the same time.

During the past week, I've given my girlfriend a few chances to experience my newest love: the Pandora. She's particularly taken to playing PandoraPanic!. I showed her Super Geometry Dust (which I personally adore), but she seemed more intent upon kicking me off my own high-score list on the former. 

My favourite software for the Pandora currently has to be SNES9x4P. I'm re-playing all of my old favourites as well as playing a few games for the first time, most notably EarthBound. I'll tell you, EarthBound was really, really ahead of its time.

On to the Pandora itself. Kaede is certainly proving to be a bit temperamental, but I like that in a device. I've noticed a small problem with the charging; sometimes she'll freeze in the middle of it, stopping the charging, and one time I had to remove the battery. Still, it's nothing a simple action couldn't fix.

One thing I really want to see in the next device from OpenPandora Ltd is keyboard backlighting. I've got a USB snake light that I'm using currently, but I can tell it's going to get annoying. Aside from providing a practical necessity, I think the Pandora would look that much more badass with translucent orange letters and translucent blue "Fn" labels. Perhaps I'll get another Pandora in the future and modify it to have key lighting.

That's all for now. I'll be updating more often from now on.

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