Well, evening has come and the day has passed, and I have tossed as many Mapreduces into the Great Cloud as the Great Cloud will take – time to go to bed. I leave you with these thoughts, overheard in the wild today:
Woman #1: And did you hear about the iPad?
Woman #2: Oh. My. God. That has to be the stupidest name.
Woman #1: I know. Don’t they know what it sounds like?
Woman #2: I think their brains must have been off for the entire development process.
Woman #1: And what gets me, there was a Mad TV skit about the “iPad” like two years ago.
Woman #2: Don’t they know people are making fun of it? Don’t they care?
Woman #1: Maybe they think at least someone’s talking about it.
Woman #2: I dunno. It seems so … useless. Who’s going to carry that?
Woman #1: It’s like a giant iPod you can’t talk on.
Woman #2: Might be good for some people. At $499, maybe for my nephew?
For the record, I know a lot of people interested in an iPad, I’m very impressed by the drawing features … and I’m not going to get one as I do not buy closed platforms. (My Mac has a UNIX command line, thank you very much, and no dang App Store is needed to put software on this thing).
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I’ll be buying a Spring Design Alex to help my favorite bookstore Borders and my favorite phone OS Android … assuming that Steve Jobs doesn’t crush his enemies, drive their tablets before them, and hear the lamentations of their programmers.
Good night.
-the Centaur
