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e561 — For the Birds

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/07/13/e561-for-the-birds/

e561 — For the Birds

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/07/13/e561-for-the-birds/

e561 — For the Birds

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/07/13/e561-for-the-birds/

e561 — For the Birds

https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/07/13/e561-for-the-birds/

https://www.europesays.com/be-nl/101218/ PocketMage: Een PDA voor onderweg zonder afleidingen, met e-paper en een fysiek toetsenbord #BE #België #Belgium #informations #Nieuws #Opstarten #overzichten #PDA #PocketDigitalAssistant #PocketMage #scherm #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Technologie #Technology #testrapporten #Wetenschap #WetenschapEnTechnologie #WetenschapTechnologie

On this show, I play a song from Elour; the kid lit all the fireworks; it's too dry for roman candles; clutter is physical procrastination; I'm trying to carry stuff immediately without piling it for later transfer; do the tedious stuff at the first opportunity rather than when disaster strikes; I killed a day in Columbia writing mobilely about how I didn't need a mobile writing tool; right after I stopped caringm the PocketMage campaign went live; I still use the Boox Note Air 4C; I still use the DIY TRMNL; I barely use the Heltec Lora V4; I might try to fix the charging ports on the stack of kid Kindle Fires because what do I have to lose?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 10 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get 15% off OneSkin with the code EGC at https://www.oneskin.co/EGC #oneskinpod
• Support this show on Patreon
• Elour's Homepage
• Elour's album Blood Running at Subvert.fm
• XTEink X4
• My blog post about not needing a writing deck
• PocketMage campaign at Crowd Supply
• Boox Note Air 4C
• DIY TRMNL from Seeed Studio
• Heltec Lora V4
• Graphene OS
• Forgejo
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from Elour; the kid lit all the fireworks; it's too dry for roman candles; clutter is physical procrastination; I'm trying to carry stuff immediately without piling it for later transfer; do the tedious stuff at the first opportunity rather than when disaster strikes; I killed a day in Columbia writing mobilely about how I didn't need a mobile writing tool; right after I stopped caringm the PocketMage campaign went live; I still use the Boox Note Air 4C; I still use the DIY TRMNL; I barely use the Heltec Lora V4; I might try to fix the charging ports on the stack of kid Kindle Fires because what do I have to lose?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 10 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get 15% off OneSkin with the code EGC at https://www.oneskin.co/EGC #oneskinpod
• Support this show on Patreon
• Elour's Homepage
• Elour's album Blood Running at Subvert.fm
• XTEink X4
• My blog post about not needing a writing deck
• PocketMage campaign at Crowd Supply
• Boox Note Air 4C
• DIY TRMNL from Seeed Studio
• Heltec Lora V4
• Graphene OS
• Forgejo
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from Elour; the kid lit all the fireworks; it's too dry for roman candles; clutter is physical procrastination; I'm trying to carry stuff immediately without piling it for later transfer; do the tedious stuff at the first opportunity rather than when disaster strikes; I killed a day in Columbia writing mobilely about how I didn't need a mobile writing tool; right after I stopped caringm the PocketMage campaign went live; I still use the Boox Note Air 4C; I still use the DIY TRMNL; I barely use the Heltec Lora V4; I might try to fix the charging ports on the stack of kid Kindle Fires because what do I have to lose?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 10 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get 15% off OneSkin with the code EGC at https://www.oneskin.co/EGC #oneskinpod
• Support this show on Patreon
• Elour's Homepage
• Elour's album Blood Running at Subvert.fm
• XTEink X4
• My blog post about not needing a writing deck
• PocketMage campaign at Crowd Supply
• Boox Note Air 4C
• DIY TRMNL from Seeed Studio
• Heltec Lora V4
• Graphene OS
• Forgejo
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from Elour; the kid lit all the fireworks; it's too dry for roman candles; clutter is physical procrastination; I'm trying to carry stuff immediately without piling it for later transfer; do the tedious stuff at the first opportunity rather than when disaster strikes; I killed a day in Columbia writing mobilely about how I didn't need a mobile writing tool; right after I stopped caringm the PocketMage campaign went live; I still use the Boox Note Air 4C; I still use the DIY TRMNL; I barely use the Heltec Lora V4; I might try to fix the charging ports on the stack of kid Kindle Fires because what do I have to lose?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 10 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get 15% off OneSkin with the code EGC at https://www.oneskin.co/EGC #oneskinpod
• Support this show on Patreon
• Elour's Homepage
• Elour's album Blood Running at Subvert.fm
• XTEink X4
• My blog post about not needing a writing deck
• PocketMage campaign at Crowd Supply
• Boox Note Air 4C
• DIY TRMNL from Seeed Studio
• Heltec Lora V4
• Graphene OS
• Forgejo
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from Elour; the kid lit all the fireworks; it's too dry for roman candles; clutter is physical procrastination; I'm trying to carry stuff immediately without piling it for later transfer; do the tedious stuff at the first opportunity rather than when disaster strikes; I killed a day in Columbia writing mobilely about how I didn't need a mobile writing tool; right after I stopped caringm the PocketMage campaign went live; I still use the Boox Note Air 4C; I still use the DIY TRMNL; I barely use the Heltec Lora V4; I might try to fix the charging ports on the stack of kid Kindle Fires because what do I have to lose?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 10 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get 15% off OneSkin with the code EGC at https://www.oneskin.co/EGC #oneskinpod
• Support this show on Patreon
• Elour's Homepage
• Elour's album Blood Running at Subvert.fm
• XTEink X4
• My blog post about not needing a writing deck
• PocketMage campaign at Crowd Supply
• Boox Note Air 4C
• DIY TRMNL from Seeed Studio
• Heltec Lora V4
• Graphene OS
• Forgejo
• The Subvert.fm collection of potential music for this show
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

PocketMage PDA with E Ink screen and QWERTY keyboard hits crowdfunding for $185 and up

The PocketMage PDA is a pocket-sized gadget that looks a bit like a tiny laptop. It has a clamshell design featuring a 3.1 inch E Ink display on top and a QWERTY keyboard for thumb typing, along with a smaller 1.8 inch OLED secondary screen.

Designed for use as a personal digital assistant rather than a full-fledged computer, the device is powered by an ESP32 microprocessor and runs a simple, […]

PocketMage PDA with E Ink screen and QWERTY keyboard hits crowdfunding for $185 and up

The PocketMage PDA is a pocket-sized gadget that looks a bit like a tiny laptop. It has a clamshell design featuring a 3.1 inch E Ink display on top and a QWERTY keyboard for thumb typing, along with a smaller 1.8 inch OLED secondary screen.

Designed for use as a personal digital assistant rather than a full-fledged computer, the device is powered by an ESP32 microprocessor and runs a simple, […]

PocketMage PDA with E Ink screen and QWERTY keyboard hits crowdfunding for $185 and up

The PocketMage PDA is a pocket-sized gadget that looks a bit like a tiny laptop. It has a clamshell design featuring a 3.1 inch E Ink display on top and a QWERTY keyboard for thumb typing, along with a smaller 1.8 inch OLED secondary screen.

Designed for use as a personal digital assistant rather than a full-fledged computer, the device is powered by an ESP32 microprocessor and runs a simple, […]

PocketMage PDA with E Ink screen and QWERTY keyboard hits crowdfunding for $185 and up

The PocketMage PDA is a pocket-sized gadget that looks a bit like a tiny laptop. It has a clamshell design featuring a 3.1 inch E Ink display on top and a QWERTY keyboard for thumb typing, along with a smaller 1.8 inch OLED secondary screen.

Designed for use as a personal digital assistant rather than a full-fledged computer, the device is powered by an ESP32 microprocessor and runs a simple, […]

In one of those positive side-effects, ever since I got the building of this 11ty blog working all the way to pinging Bridgy Fedi it has really made me want to publish more on this blog. As Drivin n Cryin once sang "A toy never played with is not a toy at all."

On the most recent podcast episode I discussed my desire for the XTEink 4, an ESP32 power device that has a number of firmwares that can be flashed on it. One of those makes it a writing machine primarily. If you look at the various places where people talk about their writing cyberdeck type devices, a number of people have 3D printed frames that hold both that device and a bluetooth keyboard. All good right?

The truth is, I have almost that anyway. I'm writing this blog post right now, sitting in a Starbucks in Columbia SC while my kid is trying to see osprey fledlings in a riverwalk with a friend. I have a cheap iClever bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone, Gitnex on my phone connected to my Forgejo, all that jazz. My hope is that when I finally commit this to the repo, it pushes to the website and also to Mastodon. This is good stuff, right?

The truth is that my desire for zippy devices to ease writing on the go is ultimately kind of pointless for a lot of reasons. One is that while I am on the go today, that's a rarity. I spend an awful lot of my life sitting in my comfortable house in the country. Another is that I am now rounding the corner to my third full year without a day job. Writing anything - blog posts or fiction or anything I desire - is wildly available to me. I have ample computers and devices at my disposal and theoretically time to tap at keyboards. In reality, I've spent zero seconds writing zero words of fiction in that time. Whatever the holdup is, it is not rooted in my lack of a cyberdeck.

It is a sobering thought to realize that the problem is much more mundane than that, and that I am it. This exposes a larger truth about me and everyone. If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren't already doing it you won't do it then.

You do the things you do. It's not the perfect notebook or tablet or 3D printed enclosure that will make the difference. It's not the presence or absence of a PocketMage or XTEink or portable Smith-Corona.

I already have all the tools I need to do everything. The only variable is whether I do it or not. This hard to face. I'd rather blame Tyler Durden for my shortcomings but I can't.

My hope is to start today, where I am with what I have. I can only hope to carry it on as far as I can.

I miss blogging. I miss writing. Nothing is stopping me.

In one of those positive side-effects, ever since I got the building of this 11ty blog working all the way to pinging Bridgy Fedi it has really made me want to publish more on this blog. As Drivin n Cryin once sang "A toy never played with is not a toy at all."

On the most recent podcast episode I discussed my desire for the XTEink 4, an ESP32 power device that has a number of firmwares that can be flashed on it. One of those makes it a writing machine primarily. If you look at the various places where people talk about their writing cyberdeck type devices, a number of people have 3D printed frames that hold both that device and a bluetooth keyboard. All good right?

The truth is, I have almost that anyway. I'm writing this blog post right now, sitting in a Starbucks in Columbia SC while my kid is trying to see osprey fledlings in a riverwalk with a friend. I have a cheap iClever bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone, Gitnex on my phone connected to my Forgejo, all that jazz. My hope is that when I finally commit this to the repo, it pushes to the website and also to Mastodon. This is good stuff, right?

The truth is that my desire for zippy devices to ease writing on the go is ultimately kind of pointless for a lot of reasons. One is that while I am on the go today, that's a rarity. I spend an awful lot of my life sitting in my comfortable house in the country. Another is that I am now rounding the corner to my third full year without a day job. Writing anything - blog posts or fiction or anything I desire - is wildly available to me. I have ample computers and devices at my disposal and theoretically time to tap at keyboards. In reality, I've spent zero seconds writing zero words of fiction in that time. Whatever the holdup is, it is not rooted in my lack of a cyberdeck.

It is a sobering thought to realize that the problem is much more mundane than that, and that I am it. This exposes a larger truth about me and everyone. If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren't already doing it you won't do it then.

You do the things you do. It's not the perfect notebook or tablet or 3D printed enclosure that will make the difference. It's not the presence or absence of a PocketMage or XTEink or portable Smith-Corona.

I already have all the tools I need to do everything. The only variable is whether I do it or not. This hard to face. I'd rather blame Tyler Durden for my shortcomings but I can't.

My hope is to start today, where I am with what I have. I can only hope to carry it on as far as I can.

I miss blogging. I miss writing. Nothing is stopping me.

In one of those positive side-effects, ever since I got the building of this 11ty blog working all the way to pinging Bridgy Fedi it has really made me want to publish more on this blog. As Drivin n Cryin once sang "A toy never played with is not a toy at all."

On the most recent podcast episode I discussed my desire for the XTEink 4, an ESP32 power device that has a number of firmwares that can be flashed on it. One of those makes it a writing machine primarily. If you look at the various places where people talk about their writing cyberdeck type devices, a number of people have 3D printed frames that hold both that device and a bluetooth keyboard. All good right?

The truth is, I have almost that anyway. I'm writing this blog post right now, sitting in a Starbucks in Columbia SC while my kid is trying to see osprey fledlings in a riverwalk with a friend. I have a cheap iClever bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone, Gitnex on my phone connected to my Forgejo, all that jazz. My hope is that when I finally commit this to the repo, it pushes to the website and also to Mastodon. This is good stuff, right?

The truth is that my desire for zippy devices to ease writing on the go is ultimately kind of pointless for a lot of reasons. One is that while I am on the go today, that's a rarity. I spend an awful lot of my life sitting in my comfortable house in the country. Another is that I am now rounding the corner to my third full year without a day job. Writing anything - blog posts or fiction or anything I desire - is wildly available to me. I have ample computers and devices at my disposal and theoretically time to tap at keyboards. In reality, I've spent zero seconds writing zero words of fiction in that time. Whatever the holdup is, it is not rooted in my lack of a cyberdeck.

It is a sobering thought to realize that the problem is much more mundane than that, and that I am it. This exposes a larger truth about me and everyone. If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren't already doing it you won't do it then.

You do the things you do. It's not the perfect notebook or tablet or 3D printed enclosure that will make the difference. It's not the presence or absence of a PocketMage or XTEink or portable Smith-Corona.

I already have all the tools I need to do everything. The only variable is whether I do it or not. This hard to face. I'd rather blame Tyler Durden for my shortcomings but I can't.

My hope is to start today, where I am with what I have. I can only hope to carry it on as far as I can.

I miss blogging. I miss writing. Nothing is stopping me.

In one of those positive side-effects, ever since I got the building of this 11ty blog working all the way to pinging Bridgy Fedi it has really made me want to publish more on this blog. As Drivin n Cryin once sang "A toy never played with is not a toy at all."

On the most recent podcast episode I discussed my desire for the XTEink 4, an ESP32 power device that has a number of firmwares that can be flashed on it. One of those makes it a writing machine primarily. If you look at the various places where people talk about their writing cyberdeck type devices, a number of people have 3D printed frames that hold both that device and a bluetooth keyboard. All good right?

The truth is, I have almost that anyway. I'm writing this blog post right now, sitting in a Starbucks in Columbia SC while my kid is trying to see osprey fledlings in a riverwalk with a friend. I have a cheap iClever bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone, Gitnex on my phone connected to my Forgejo, all that jazz. My hope is that when I finally commit this to the repo, it pushes to the website and also to Mastodon. This is good stuff, right?

The truth is that my desire for zippy devices to ease writing on the go is ultimately kind of pointless for a lot of reasons. One is that while I am on the go today, that's a rarity. I spend an awful lot of my life sitting in my comfortable house in the country. Another is that I am now rounding the corner to my third full year without a day job. Writing anything - blog posts or fiction or anything I desire - is wildly available to me. I have ample computers and devices at my disposal and theoretically time to tap at keyboards. In reality, I've spent zero seconds writing zero words of fiction in that time. Whatever the holdup is, it is not rooted in my lack of a cyberdeck.

It is a sobering thought to realize that the problem is much more mundane than that, and that I am it. This exposes a larger truth about me and everyone. If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren't already doing it you won't do it then.

You do the things you do. It's not the perfect notebook or tablet or 3D printed enclosure that will make the difference. It's not the presence or absence of a PocketMage or XTEink or portable Smith-Corona.

I already have all the tools I need to do everything. The only variable is whether I do it or not. This hard to face. I'd rather blame Tyler Durden for my shortcomings but I can't.

My hope is to start today, where I am with what I have. I can only hope to carry it on as far as I can.

I miss blogging. I miss writing. Nothing is stopping me.

In one of those positive side-effects, ever since I got the building of this 11ty blog working all the way to pinging Bridgy Fedi it has really made me want to publish more on this blog. As Drivin n Cryin once sang "A toy never played with is not a toy at all."

On the most recent podcast episode I discussed my desire for the XTEink 4, an ESP32 power device that has a number of firmwares that can be flashed on it. One of those makes it a writing machine primarily. If you look at the various places where people talk about their writing cyberdeck type devices, a number of people have 3D printed frames that hold both that device and a bluetooth keyboard. All good right?

The truth is, I have almost that anyway. I'm writing this blog post right now, sitting in a Starbucks in Columbia SC while my kid is trying to see osprey fledlings in a riverwalk with a friend. I have a cheap iClever bluetooth keyboard paired to my phone, Gitnex on my phone connected to my Forgejo, all that jazz. My hope is that when I finally commit this to the repo, it pushes to the website and also to Mastodon. This is good stuff, right?

The truth is that my desire for zippy devices to ease writing on the go is ultimately kind of pointless for a lot of reasons. One is that while I am on the go today, that's a rarity. I spend an awful lot of my life sitting in my comfortable house in the country. Another is that I am now rounding the corner to my third full year without a day job. Writing anything - blog posts or fiction or anything I desire - is wildly available to me. I have ample computers and devices at my disposal and theoretically time to tap at keyboards. In reality, I've spent zero seconds writing zero words of fiction in that time. Whatever the holdup is, it is not rooted in my lack of a cyberdeck.

It is a sobering thought to realize that the problem is much more mundane than that, and that I am it. This exposes a larger truth about me and everyone. If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren't already doing it you won't do it then.

You do the things you do. It's not the perfect notebook or tablet or 3D printed enclosure that will make the difference. It's not the presence or absence of a PocketMage or XTEink or portable Smith-Corona.

I already have all the tools I need to do everything. The only variable is whether I do it or not. This hard to face. I'd rather blame Tyler Durden for my shortcomings but I can't.

My hope is to start today, where I am with what I have. I can only hope to carry it on as far as I can.

I miss blogging. I miss writing. Nothing is stopping me.

On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an atypical summer; I did less cheap comic shopping at Heroescon than ever; I did more art shopping at Heroescon than ever; this might be my last year of bulk autograph seeking; John K. Snyder III is a great guy; Walt Simonson's autograph line might have broken me on big ticket signatures; if you are going to embezzle then do it all at once and GTFO; I am at an all-time low in enthusiasm for technology but mostly because of billionaires and assholes; AI slop makes all fun stop; I stopped caring about the Pocket Mage; I was tempted by an XTeink X4 but probably won't buy it; I will probably still buy a Micimike; our computers and phones from pre-2025 are going to be like 1959 Cuban cars; do I really need a new 3D printer?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 26 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• James McMurtry main page
• Lost in the Stacks
• Heroescon
• Winyah Riverkeepers
• Drivin n Cryin
• Ron Randall
• John K Snyder III
• Gregg Schigiel
• Geologic Podcast
• PocketMage
• Xteink X4
• Micimike
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an atypical summer; I did less cheap comic shopping at Heroescon than ever; I did more art shopping at Heroescon than ever; this might be my last year of bulk autograph seeking; John K. Snyder III is a great guy; Walt Simonson's autograph line might have broken me on big ticket signatures; if you are going to embezzle then do it all at once and GTFO; I am at an all-time low in enthusiasm for technology but mostly because of billionaires and assholes; AI slop makes all fun stop; I stopped caring about the Pocket Mage; I was tempted by an XTeink X4 but probably won't buy it; I will probably still buy a Micimike; our computers and phones from pre-2025 are going to be like 1959 Cuban cars; do I really need a new 3D printer?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 26 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• James McMurtry main page
• Lost in the Stacks
• Heroescon
• Winyah Riverkeepers
• Drivin n Cryin
• Ron Randall
• John K Snyder III
• Gregg Schigiel
• Geologic Podcast
• PocketMage
• Xteink X4
• Micimike
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an atypical summer; I did less cheap comic shopping at Heroescon than ever; I did more art shopping at Heroescon than ever; this might be my last year of bulk autograph seeking; John K. Snyder III is a great guy; Walt Simonson's autograph line might have broken me on big ticket signatures; if you are going to embezzle then do it all at once and GTFO; I am at an all-time low in enthusiasm for technology but mostly because of billionaires and assholes; AI slop makes all fun stop; I stopped caring about the Pocket Mage; I was tempted by an XTeink X4 but probably won't buy it; I will probably still buy a Micimike; our computers and phones from pre-2025 are going to be like 1959 Cuban cars; do I really need a new 3D printer?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 26 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• James McMurtry main page
• Lost in the Stacks
• Heroescon
• Winyah Riverkeepers
• Drivin n Cryin
• Ron Randall
• John K Snyder III
• Gregg Schigiel
• Geologic Podcast
• PocketMage
• Xteink X4
• Micimike
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an atypical summer; I did less cheap comic shopping at Heroescon than ever; I did more art shopping at Heroescon than ever; this might be my last year of bulk autograph seeking; John K. Snyder III is a great guy; Walt Simonson's autograph line might have broken me on big ticket signatures; if you are going to embezzle then do it all at once and GTFO; I am at an all-time low in enthusiasm for technology but mostly because of billionaires and assholes; AI slop makes all fun stop; I stopped caring about the Pocket Mage; I was tempted by an XTeink X4 but probably won't buy it; I will probably still buy a Micimike; our computers and phones from pre-2025 are going to be like 1959 Cuban cars; do I really need a new 3D printer?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 26 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• James McMurtry main page
• Lost in the Stacks
• Heroescon
• Winyah Riverkeepers
• Drivin n Cryin
• Ron Randall
• John K Snyder III
• Gregg Schigiel
• Geologic Podcast
• PocketMage
• Xteink X4
• Micimike
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Join the EGC Discord server
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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On this show, I play a song from James McMurtry; I set my Waze voice to Chaka Khan; this is an atypical summer; I did less cheap comic shopping at Heroescon than ever; I did more art shopping at Heroescon than ever; this might be my last year of bulk autograph seeking; John K. Snyder III is a great guy; Walt Simonson's autograph line might have broken me on big ticket signatures; if you are going to embezzle then do it all at once and GTFO; I am at an all-time low in enthusiasm for technology but mostly because of billionaires and assholes; AI slop makes all fun stop; I stopped caring about the Pocket Mage; I was tempted by an XTeink X4 but probably won't buy it; I will probably still buy a Micimike; our computers and phones from pre-2025 are going to be like 1959 Cuban cars; do I really need a new 3D printer?

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@dichotomiker No comparison I’m afraid. As much as I love to see new palmtop devices available (#PocketMage hasn’t even shipped yet), there’s still nothing that comes close to the Psion, both in terms of hardware or software. Nobody is seriously going to write a book on a PocketMage with a membrane keyboard. I _am_ writing a book on the #Psion however, in the here and now, not in future promises.

Trust me, I want an affordable, open, palmtop writing platform more than most but it’s still an issue of design and intent before we even get to the hardware. A complete replacement for the Psion is still several years away.

@dichotomiker No comparison I’m afraid. As much as I love to see new palmtop devices available (#PocketMage hasn’t even shipped yet), there’s still nothing that comes close to the Psion, both in terms of hardware or software. Nobody is seriously going to write a book on a PocketMage with a membrane keyboard. I _am_ writing a book on the #Psion however, in the here and now, not in future promises.

Trust me, I want an affordable, open, palmtop writing platform more than most but it’s still an issue of design and intent before we even get to the hardware. A complete replacement for the Psion is still several years away.

@dichotomiker No comparison I’m afraid. As much as I love to see new palmtop devices available (#PocketMage hasn’t even shipped yet), there’s still nothing that comes close to the Psion, both in terms of hardware or software. Nobody is seriously going to write a book on a PocketMage with a membrane keyboard. I _am_ writing a book on the #Psion however, in the here and now, not in future promises.

Trust me, I want an affordable, open, palmtop writing platform more than most but it’s still an issue of design and intent before we even get to the hardware. A complete replacement for the Psion is still several years away.

@dichotomiker No comparison I’m afraid. As much as I love to see new palmtop devices available (#PocketMage hasn’t even shipped yet), there’s still nothing that comes close to the Psion, both in terms of hardware or software. Nobody is seriously going to write a book on a PocketMage with a membrane keyboard. I _am_ writing a book on the #Psion however, in the here and now, not in future promises.

Trust me, I want an affordable, open, palmtop writing platform more than most but it’s still an issue of design and intent before we even get to the hardware. A complete replacement for the Psion is still several years away.

@dichotomiker No comparison I’m afraid. As much as I love to see new palmtop devices available (#PocketMage hasn’t even shipped yet), there’s still nothing that comes close to the Psion, both in terms of hardware or software. Nobody is seriously going to write a book on a PocketMage with a membrane keyboard. I _am_ writing a book on the #Psion however, in the here and now, not in future promises.

Trust me, I want an affordable, open, palmtop writing platform more than most but it’s still an issue of design and intent before we even get to the hardware. A complete replacement for the Psion is still several years away.

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

@bonkers @littlealex @nazokiyoubinbou Have you seen #PocketMage? https://pocketmage.org/ He solves the latency issue by using a small OLED to display the ‘current line’ when typing. It’s a clever device but I wish the screen were wider

This is the best thing we've got for a cheap(?), hackable pocket platform with a keyboard in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3Q73iIAeg and even that is still a toy compared to a #Psion

#pocketmage

This is the best thing we've got for a cheap(?), hackable pocket platform with a keyboard in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3Q73iIAeg and even that is still a toy compared to a #Psion

#pocketmage

This is the best thing we've got for a cheap(?), hackable pocket platform with a keyboard in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3Q73iIAeg and even that is still a toy compared to a #Psion

#pocketmage

This is the best thing we've got for a cheap(?), hackable pocket platform with a keyboard in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3Q73iIAeg and even that is still a toy compared to a #Psion

#pocketmage

This is the best thing we've got for a cheap(?), hackable pocket platform with a keyboard in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3Q73iIAeg and even that is still a toy compared to a #Psion

#pocketmage

@jwo There have been *many* attempts and all appear to fall short because they keep targeting vibes rather than engineering. A modern “digital typewriter” like the Zerowriter (https://zerowriter.ink) is infinitely outclassed by a 90s #Alphasmart DANA (https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/2022/06/29/retro-writing-10-alphasmart-dana) in every measure. Like all things, _we are going backwards_. The #PocketMage (https://pocketmage.org) is interesting as a homebrew device but it’s still light years away from even a #Psion 3

#alphasmart #pocketmage #writingcommunity #retrocomputing #psion

@jwo There have been *many* attempts and all appear to fall short because they keep targeting vibes rather than engineering. A modern “digital typewriter” like the Zerowriter (https://zerowriter.ink) is infinitely outclassed by a 90s #Alphasmart DANA (https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/2022/06/29/retro-writing-10-alphasmart-dana) in every measure. Like all things, _we are going backwards_. The #PocketMage (https://pocketmage.org) is interesting as a homebrew device but it’s still light years away from even a #Psion 3

#alphasmart #pocketmage #writingcommunity #retrocomputing #psion

@jwo There have been *many* attempts and all appear to fall short because they keep targeting vibes rather than engineering. A modern “digital typewriter” like the Zerowriter (https://zerowriter.ink) is infinitely outclassed by a 90s #Alphasmart DANA (https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/2022/06/29/retro-writing-10-alphasmart-dana) in every measure. Like all things, _we are going backwards_. The #PocketMage (https://pocketmage.org) is interesting as a homebrew device but it’s still light years away from even a #Psion 3

#alphasmart #pocketmage #writingcommunity #retrocomputing #psion

@jwo There have been *many* attempts and all appear to fall short because they keep targeting vibes rather than engineering. A modern “digital typewriter” like the Zerowriter (https://zerowriter.ink) is infinitely outclassed by a 90s #Alphasmart DANA (https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/2022/06/29/retro-writing-10-alphasmart-dana) in every measure. Like all things, _we are going backwards_. The #PocketMage (https://pocketmage.org) is interesting as a homebrew device but it’s still light years away from even a #Psion 3

#alphasmart #pocketmage #writingcommunity #retrocomputing #psion

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And in case the name wasn’t a giveaway, it’s designed for pretty basic operation: it’s a throwback to an earlier time when […]

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