{"id":37,"date":"2010-02-02T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-02-02T02:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T02:39:00","slug":"compline-ipad-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/compline-ipad-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Compline: iPad Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, evening has come and the day has passed<\/a>, and I have tossed as many Mapreduces<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n

Woman #1:<\/span> And did you hear about the iPad?
Woman #2:<\/span> Oh. My. God. That has to be the stupidest name.
Woman #1:<\/span> I know. Don’t they know what it sounds like?
Woman #2:<\/span> I think their brains must have been off for the entire development process.
Woman #1:<\/span> And what gets me, there was a Mad TV<\/a> skit about the “iPad” like two years ago.
Woman #2:<\/span> Don’t they know people are making fun of it? Don’t they care?
Woman #1:<\/span> Maybe they think at least someone’s talking about it.
Woman #2:<\/span> I dunno. It seems so … useless. Who’s going to carry that?
Woman #1:<\/span> It’s like a giant iPod you can’t talk on.
Woman #2:<\/span> Might be good for some people. At $499, maybe for my nephew?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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).<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4]<\/p>\n

I’ll be buying a Spring Design<\/a> Alex<\/a> to help my favorite bookstore Borders<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Good night.
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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