{"id":748,"date":"2019-07-12T20:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T03:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=748"},"modified":"2019-07-12T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T03:26:27","slug":"a-glimpse-of-rivendell-on-my-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/12\/a-glimpse-of-rivendell-on-my-wrist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse of Rivendell on My Wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently replaced my original model Apple Watch (sometimes referred to as a \u201cSeries 0\u201d model) with a Series 4. I really liked my old watch, but Apple stopped issuing system updates for that model so I knew its days on my wrist were numbered. When I finished a couple of particularly big projects recently, I decided that my reward would be a new Apple Watch.<\/p>\n

The new Series 4 is a worthy replacement. Everything (except, of course, the time) runs\u00a0much<\/em> faster on it. It has a much better speaker. It does ECGs. It has great battery life. It can spit water<\/a>!<\/p>\n

But my favorite feature is its slightly larger display, and its ability to run the Kaleidoscope watch face full-screen on it.<\/p>\n

On my old watch I had created a Kaleidoscope watch face based on a photo I had taken of some jacaranda tree blossoms. The result was a watch face I nicknamed \u201cRivendell.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rivendell looked lovely on my old watch, and it continues to look lovely on my new one. But when I made a full-screen version of it for my new Apple Watch, it became mesmerizing. In fact, it\u2019s so<\/em> mesmerizing that\u00a0I consume much of my new Apple Watch\u2019s extra battery power by keeping my portal into Rivendell running on my wrist for minutes at a time while I gaze at it. It\u2019s very calming\u2014much more so than the Breathe app.<\/p>\n

\"Rivendell
A still image cannot convey the stately Elvish grace of this slowly animating watch face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know for a fact that jacarandas grew in Rivendell, but Elrond, who ran the place, knew Gandalf, and he<\/em> knew the Valar queen Yavanna\u00a0Kement\u00e1ri (the Giver of Fruits) \u00a0back in the old country, and she<\/em> is the one who basically planted all the original foliage on Middle-Earth, so if Elrond had<\/em>\u00a0wanted one of those purple-blossomed lovelies in his valley estate, he could probably pull a few strings.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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