Dear Google - Let Me Start A Hangout From My Watch Category: messaging
I love android and all my google products. I even wear a watch but for some incredibly unbelieve reason they have omitted the ability to starta hangout from the google voice command.
Why can't I say, "Ok Google, send a message to John Doe" and have it auto choose hangouts instead of SMS. It seems like hangouts should just be the default. At least give me the option to say, "OK Google start a hangout with John Doe"
Its so crazy because you can in fact reply to a hangout, just not start one. Its almost more work to write all these disclaimers about how it doesn't work than to just fix it.
Some things you can’t do with Hangouts on Android Wear
Keep in mind that you can't do certain things with Hangouts on your watch that you could do on your phone.
Start a new Hangouts conversation. You can only reply to a Hangouts message you received.
Start a group Hangout or add a person to a conversation
Start a video call
Share your mood
Send a multimedia message
Sign out of Hangouts
How are they missing out on this? You would think google programmers could fix this in like 30 seconds but it hasn't been available since the watches came out. UGH.
Imagine if you could text message chopsticks based on the history of what she had written and a computer program to approximate her responses. Would it satisfy you more than the medium?
I never really thought about being able to be recreated at the level portrayed in a recent Black Mirror episode but now I think about it all the time.
I know its long but just watch it, you will appreciate it.
I feel so jealous when I think about the kids a generation or two from now that will have most of their lives available in HD VR format during the same time that most of my earlier memories will just vanish into senility. I guess they can't embellish the way i will be able to when I am elderly.
I wish so bad that I could have digitally recorded my Nonna talking to me in VR before she died. Something that you could share with other people and revisit.
I have just about no images from all my crazy adventures as a high school and undergrad college student. Its kills me that I spent a long while in Africa in fall of 1997 and traveled to my families ancestral farm in italy and have no pictures of any of it. If I didn't have some clothing I bought there I would start to doubt I even went.
Many of the images I do have from earlier periods are just images of some landscape. It funny how those things seemed so important when I took the photos, to show to people who I thought could never see those things - but now just about any landscape can be found on google now whereas pictures of the people you care about, frozen in time can not be.
Now I wish I took more pictures of the people I was with and more video. (e:Terry) hates being in photo and video. Its a miracle I managed this video of us on our trip around America in the summer of 2000. It seems like lifetimes ago.
At the same time at some point it become an issue of quantity. If you 1 to 1 ratio recorded everything that happens in your life, it would take 1 entire lifetime to review it.
Sadly, I censor a huge part of my life now for no good reasons. I basically have turned my journal into a shell of food and dancing reviews. I figure I can pick back up in a post-retirement expose style.
uchina - 01/12/15 22:54 I would HATE being called out to play back an argument because i change my position halfway through a conversation all the time!!
paul - 01/12/15 22:52 By unobtrusive I meant they didn't have to get out a camera and have everyone pose and act unnatural.
paul - 01/12/15 22:51 Ya I liked how unobtrusive their recording function worked although I can see how that would end up so crazy.
uchina - 01/12/15 22:45 Did you see the Black Mirror where everyone has every second of their life recorded and they can playback at any time?
uchina - 01/12/15 22:44 This is great, i love Cranky Terry the Last Of The Pale Mohicans! It's those little mundane snippets of life that i find to be lost enjoyable to watch. Most of my memories of people who are gone are tiny fragments such as their wrist, smoking a cigarette, putting on a jacket, laughing, pouring wine etc. i have a Memory Palace that runs films all day of all the things i call up. I dont think i'd like a recreation such as that one from Black Mirror, or even an automated text message. It's pretty creepy when someone dies and their facebook page keeps updating or it says they're attending an upcoming event!
All the same, i like the idea of the things you put out there floating on for eternity. One shouldnt spend their entire life just documenting things for the future to the exclusion of the present, but maybe a balance between the two could be nice.
paul - 01/12/15 22:41 Tiny you should really watch that show I posted. I think you would like it.
tinypliny - 01/12/15 04:50 I am actually pretty happy I don't have pictures of the people who mattered to me when they mattered to me. Somehow, they live on in dreams and many a times, in ridiculous misplaced nightmares and they are just like they were all those years ago. They are all there waiting for me to sink into a consciousness of the past. I don't think its possible to forget people who have left a lasting impression on you. The others... just don't matter really.
Maybe the reasons are to do with being eminently discoverable and the consequences of just thinking too much about repercussions.
01/10/2015 18:53 #59738
Soup At Soup With Kim and Kanye and Casey and Misumi Category: food
Last Sunday we went to Sato on elmwood for some soup.
I had some amazing seafood butter lemon Ramen with crab and shrimp that was the daily special. The soup there is so amazing. I could eat there everyday.
We were joined by two celebrity couples.
Casey and Masumi
Kim and Kanye joined us as well with Kanye showing off his cleavage.
I still can't believe 20 years after driving a nail through it, the hole never closed despite never wearing anything in it.
tinypliny - 01/12/15 01:27 Yes, that cartilage will never close. It's got very poor blood and nervous supply in comparison with cartilages in other locations.
01/10/2015 14:02 #59735
Fighting Dragons - Dragon Age Inquitions Category:
games
6 of 10 dragons are dead. We haven't seen the dragonslayer in days.
heidi - 01/12/15 13:59 There's a matching dragonslayer in my livingroom.
I would HATE being called out to play back an argument because i change my position halfway through a conversation all the time!!
By unobtrusive I meant they didn't have to get out a camera and have everyone pose and act unnatural.
Ya I liked how unobtrusive their recording function worked although I can see how that would end up so crazy.
Did you see the Black Mirror where everyone has every second of their life recorded and they can playback at any time?
This is great, i love Cranky Terry the Last Of The Pale Mohicans! It's those little mundane snippets of life that i find to be lost enjoyable to watch. Most of my memories of people who are gone are tiny fragments such as their wrist, smoking a cigarette, putting on a jacket, laughing, pouring wine etc. i have a Memory Palace that runs films all day of all the things i call up. I dont think i'd like a recreation such as that one from Black Mirror, or even an automated text message. It's pretty creepy when someone dies and their facebook page keeps updating or it says they're attending an upcoming event!
All the same, i like the idea of the things you put out there floating on for eternity. One shouldnt spend their entire life just documenting things for the future to the exclusion of the present, but maybe a balance between the two could be nice.
Tiny you should really watch that show I posted. I think you would like it.
I am actually pretty happy I don't have pictures of the people who mattered to me when they mattered to me. Somehow, they live on in dreams and many a times, in ridiculous misplaced nightmares and they are just like they were all those years ago. They are all there waiting for me to sink into a consciousness of the past. I don't think its possible to forget people who have left a lasting impression on you. The others... just don't matter really.
No good reason indeed.
I censor myself all the time.
Maybe the reasons are to do with being eminently discoverable and the consequences of just thinking too much about repercussions.