IPad Eve

The world or at least the US is all a Twitter about the coming of the iPad, the oversized iphone that will change you entire life.

My friend Sean is getting his in the mail tomorrow morning.  I can't imagine he will see much beyond the virtual world for a day.  Here is he looking longingly into the window of the Apple Store like it is FAO Schwartz as the Apple elves prepare for the onslaught.

We spoke with the first person in line at the 14th Street Store in Manhattan.  He has been there since 6pm and it was about 10pm when we spoke with him. Oddly he is all alone, no one else is waiting in line with him yet. We asked him about peeing.  I am sure his new ipad will take of that somehow. iPee!

So apparently the world will not be the same after tomorrow.  Stay tuned.

Smaller, Shorter & Cut

I remember that Joan Rivers joke about how Liz Taylor was the only person she knew who would stand in front of the microwave and yell "HURRY UP!!"

There was a day when we had to hunt and kill our food and now we can almost have it sprayed on.

But so many things I thought would never go away, have.  Like the record album and even the CD!

My friend Sean is counting down the days until his ipad arrives like it is Christmas and he is wearing pajamas with feet in them. (NB: My feeling is until the ipad and iphone act as a hotplate, we have not fully arrived. )

Change is a process of letting go and embracing.  Much like life, eh?  This morning I looked over at a stack of books I am putting aside for a trip and for the first time I saw how a reading device (Kindle, ipad, Sony Reader) really made sense.  (I still periodically dabble in the  "If we were meant to fly, we'd have wings" school of thinking.)  Here I am with airport weight limits going to put all these weighty, ancient papyrus tomes into my baggage when I could have one simple plastic light up thingy.

I marvel.


And I heard about Haiti and Michael Jackson first on Facebook, but that is another article...