Apps

Minion, mozzarella sticks, fried pickles, guacamole and nachos are all better apps for sailing than saild.

Saild is supposed to be a simple route tracker, social media, simple stats recorder for the non-racing sailor who still wants some amount of data regarding their sailing trips.  I don't necessarily need SOG as a function of the lay line or numeric representations of the polar chart for my C22. Sometimes I am curious if I made it from channel marker 6 to 7 faster than last week, in the same way that sometimes you're curious how your frigid, shrew wife's sparkling eyes and childlike joie de vie had been replaced with a pallid visage and slavish devotion to the rigorous tedium of middle class life. Perhaps there were times when you had noticed the change happening. Perhaps there were times when you could have interrupted what now seems like the inevitable march toward stagnant complacency with her, with yourself, with life, but they're gone now.

Those lost opportunities are now just irrelevant, annoying reminders of the pestilent petulance of youthful hope. The hope is gone, the woman you knew is gone. You, the you you were, the you you could have been: gone.  Left is that frigid, shrew and her empty, rote, muscle memory induced peck on the cheek as you leave for work and the irrepressible hope, somewhere deep, down, in the darkest corners of you soul that this will be the day the #4 bus from Park Fair Mall to downtown runs that red light at Euclid and, well...

What saild actually is, is a cavalcade of bugginess that would make an etymologist uncomfortable.

(Minion, that's a really funny, smart joke where I pretend to mix up etymology with entomology as a function of the word "bugginess". See, entomologists study insects, "bugs", and etymologists study the history of words and 'bugginess" is not an accepted word yet. It's still just vernacular. Keep up, Minion.)

The last three trips I've taken I've thought I've saved pictures to the route. I haven't. I've thought I've saved the route itself. I haven't. There is no recovery feature, there is no temporary save.

On the other hand it is free. So....here's a picture of a kitty cat. Meow: