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I did it, finally...

I did it, finally...

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vandervelde

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It was yesterday, at some Greek taverna, whist Manchester City and WHU played their game and over second bottle of Keiser beer.

I came in from the beach from swimming (I did 60 minutes´ tae bo for old grandmothers in low watter and then swam a bit. I changed in a cute cabin like from movie about Monsieur Hullot. I was wearing bermudas on bare butt. I changed sandals, too.

I came into this restaurant with beach bag full of wet stuff and beach mat and all this.

And I took out my iphone which I used only a s a camera and voice recorder.

And I asked for a password for Wi-Fi.
And I joined the network.

It was difficult to remember what to do, to find Google. Finally I tried "Safari" and that was it.

I typed redhotpawn.com.

I found it. I managed to log-in with my frikadelle-fingers on little screen of iphone 4.

And I realized I cam play on the phone!
Quite amazing. I forgot the game, City was attacking in efforts to equalize, but I couldn´t care less.

I saw a new Hardcore tournament began.

Some player resigned both games without a move and made me sad about it.


The first available game on my phone was against vpadilla7.
And I played 1. e4 on September 19th, 20:20 Greek time, 19:20 CET.

So I did it, I made my very first move on iphone.

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I'd always assumed that one of the stipulations in that massive bailout package that they finally nutted out for Greece was that vandervelde would leave the country.

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Welcome to the collective. 🙄

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Originally posted by vandervelde
It was yesterday, at some Greek taverna, whist Manchester City and WHU played their game and over second bottle of Keiser beer.

I came in from the beach from swimming (I did 60 minutes´ tae bo for old grandmothers in low watter and then swam a bit. I changed in a cute cabin like from movie about Monsieur Hullot. I was wearing bermudas on bare butt. I ...[text shortened]... eptember 19th, 20:20 Greek time, 19:20 CET.

So I did it, I made my very first move on iphone.
e4 was the first move in a RHP game for over 5 millin times.

For that occasion soemthing more exotic would have been called for, don't you think?

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Thanks. Small step for a gadget world but a giant one for a fountain pen user.

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Originally posted by vandervelde
Thanks. Small step for a gadget world but a giant one for a fountain pen user.
If Neil Armstrong had tried to say this, he'd have probably said 'One small step for fountain pen user but a giant step for fountain pen users', so I'm glad you got it out right.

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Originally posted by FMF
If Neil Armstrong had tried to say this, he'd have probably said 'One small step for fountain pen user but a giant step for fountain pen users', so I'm glad you got it out right.
http://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html

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Originally posted by vandervelde
http://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html
He blew it. But we know what he meant to say. 😛

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Originally posted by FMF
He blew it. But we know what he meant to say. 😛
we know what he was suppoed to say. The NASA did order a n aphorism for the occasion as Henry Miller told us.

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