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Another day without a true Internet connection , even with –especially with–the iPhone.

It is a frustrating device. The things it does well it does very well–things like making paintings and finding restaurants and identifying constellations. But the things that it does not do well are fortunately many of the tasks for which one gets a mobile phone/email device, i.e. a reliable connection to the electronic world from the middle of a nonelectronic. (Believe it or not, Steve, there are people who live, or at least travel, out of range of a wireless modem.)

Another problem–sending things before you are ready? All roads (or fingertips) seem to lead to send even when the phone is out of service. (Then, at some mysterious point–whoosh–send happens.)

Oh well, painting with your phone is pretty great and did you know that you can even paint on photographs? Taken on your phone!

Sorry for all the duplicate posts yesterday.

I am in a house in the mountains without Internet or phone service and an intermittent cell connection. Some speculate that the cell tower is encrusted with ice but frankly the service is poor here even in summer (when those same speculators conjecture that all the leaves interfere with the signal.)

At any rate, last night I tried all my blogging wiles to post a painting. These included reposting it at various pixel levels and marching up and down the nearest snowy hill with a headlamp strapped just below my hat.

(The cold has broken the car key in the ignition so driving to a place with better connectivity was not a true option even if I’d been willing to take a chance on icy roads.)

Unfortunately, I do not understand this gadget enough to know how to cancel all or some of the messages once they started their glacial (in all senses of the word) but non-pictorial way through the stratosphere. (The smart phone was just too smart for me.)

Argh!

Here’s painting done on train along the Hudson with the wonderful Brushes app. I’m now in the Catskill Mountains trying to post without Internet access. For a computer junkie, this is a bit like paddling up or downstream (in a storm). One more try.

iPhone paintings may be made in almost any circumstances I.e. along the Hudson in a train. Alas posting from a place with the barest satellite connection i.e. the mountains is not so easy.

Frustrated in the cold!

Frustrated,cold.