Thinking about somebody lately? A college friend, your grandma, that nice lady who works at your favorite restaurant? Do something nice for that person today. Send a card, leave a nice message on the voicemail, give a hefty tip or whatever might make that person’s day a little brighter. I guarantee that good energy will come back to you.
Happy Groundhog Day!
I got out of bed at 6:30 this morning for no reason in particular. Actually, I was awake at 6:00, but stayed in bed for another 30 minutes, waiting for sleep to return. I used that extra hour productively though. Got in a deeper meditation and got a few small things out of the way. Today will be a good day!
Apple finally unveiled what everyone knew they would unveil, a tablet computer called the iPad (ugh). At first glance it has the things we’ve come to expect of Apple products–cute, sleek and capable of doing impossibly cool things. It also has the very surprising added bonus of costing alot less than people thought it would. The starting price is just $499! There’s a digital keyboard, you can play games, do office stuff, email, surf the web, etc.
The thing that I love, no ADORE, about the iPad (ugh) is that it’s an e-book reader! Text books and regular books will be available through the iBook store. Isn’t that just wonderful? Your books are displayed in a bookshelf on the screen. Very nice. (Oh and I l0ooooove the note-taking app that looks like a notepad. Cute.) I’ve posted before about my yearning for Apple to get into the e-reader market and they have finally heeded my advice. Unfortunately, I won’t be getting this version of the iPad (ugh) for the following reasons**:
No Printing
From what I’ve read, I don’t think you can connect the iPad (ugh) directly to a printer. What the heck? After spending all that time writing my novel while I’m laying in the park, I have to email it to myself and print it from my laptop? My meticulous notes from that 3-hour city council session have to be emailed too? There are no USB ports on this device, but Apple does provide a dongle to connect to a camera to download pics. Can’t they do something for a printer? The printing thisng is not a huge deal right now, but if the tablet is going to be something that could possibly replace laptops and desktops, it needs more connectivity. Perhaps there’s an app to print wirelessly?
Can’t Use My Handy Dandy Memory Stick
Because of the aforementioned lack of a USB port, that means no Memory Stick. Memory sticks are such a great way to move large amounts of data from one device to another. I’d hate to lose that.
No Flash
There’s lots of Flash out there, so going to certain websites and playing certain games (Any Farmville players out there?) would be out of the question on the iPad (ugh). This is something that could possibly be addressed with an app though.
Even with those things though, if the iPad (ugh) was a little cheaper, I would buy it just for the e-reader aspect. Since that’s not the case, I’ll wait until Apple polishes this thing up and hopefully changes the name too.
*The name iPad (ugh) is the biggest marketing flub I have ever seen by Apple in recent years. Are there no women on the branding team? Not a soul at Apple had seen this MadTV skit? Until there is a name change, I will refer to this device as the iPad (ugh).
**I am not a techie, I just like Apple stuff and other cool things. I could be wrong about some of the specs. Feel free to correct me. 
“If you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
~Conan O’Brien on has last Tonight Show appearance~
I had a rough couple weeks closing out December of ‘09 and I feel like I’m still trying to catch up from all the work I missed. More than the work though, I’m trying to jump back into my good habits full throttle. Still digging out of a creative rut. I kinda slipped back into the habit of not doing morning pages and not sticking to my to-do lists and schedules. Gotta jump back on things. So starting tomorrow, I’m going back to “normal” no matter what. I’ll report back with the results of my self-administered pep talk.
It’s Tuesday, but it’s really like Monday. Muesday? Well, whatever you want to call it, it’s today, which makes it the/a present.
Salon has by far the funniest and most on point break down of the whole Leno/Conan debacle on NBC. My favorite quote: “There’s a collective scorn for the way that NBC has so openly pooped on its audience like Triumph the Insult Dog: replacing its 10 p.m. lineup with five nights of cheap, clunky Jay Leno shows because they’re easier than, I don’t know, creating something new that doesn’t suck? Well, f#ck you, too.”
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I was fortunate enough to be born in the decade that produced the BEST music. (That’s the 1970’s for those that don’t know. Sure I was born in 1979, but it still counts.) One of the booming voices of that era and surely someone whose songs were the soundtrack to countless conceptions was Teddy Pendergrass. Teddy P passed away and the New York Times provided a lovely and respectful obituary to mark his transition.
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I recently discovered a hair site that I absolutely adore called Curly Nikki. Here’s a post from earlier this week.
“Girrrrrrrl, I was through with him. He kept blowin’ up my phone, but I never called him back. He got the hint after a while.”
“He was in the pew behind me. He tapped my shoulder and asked me where I got my Bible. We’ve been inseparable ever since.”
“I made him wait like three months before he got some. I was not trying to rush.”
*sigh* The story. We all have at least one. We have a story about how some guy was semi-stalking us, how we met our current beau and how we were prudent with the punany. Most of the time, such stories have a sprig of truth, but rarely are they 100 percent faithful accounts of what actually happened.
There’s nothing wrong with propagating casual myths per se, unless you start to believe your own hype. You want to save face with your girlfriends and act like you weren’t staring at your cellphone, willing it to ring? Fine. Just remember that in reality, you did care about whether or not he called and maybe you were even a little bit desperate. Acknowledge your behavior and change it if you think it needs to be changed.
I have some stories.
It’s Friday, hopefully you have a job and you definitely have sh*t to do.
