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Pee-Wee Gets an iPad
So much awesomeness packed into two minutes.
Apple
The iPhone changed our culture.
The iPad is going to change it again. It is an amazing device and should not be underestimated.
If you do not understand that the iPad is an amazing, world changing device you need to study it until you do understand that and know how to beat it.
Three years later competitors are just coming up with ways to equal the iPhone and Apple bests their own leading devices.
Can you do better? Put up or shut up.
New Orleans: the city that knows how to party.
Minneapolis: the city that knows how to suffer stoically, knowing that it is somehow their fault even though they have lived honest, Lutheran lives.
"Self Portrait" 2009 by John Rodenbiker (1979- ) Digital Photograph 34,763 bytes; 640x480 pixels
This is why I’ve stopped posting most anything even vaguely related to politics. Every time I try I devolve into sputtering about the incompetence of Congressional Democrats, the ambivalence towards the electorate by the Obama administration, and the evil of the Republicans.
“If it were possible for me to narrate this story, I’d begin here.
“This is Asterios Polyp.
“Right now, he’s watching his home burn up. Today—coincidentally—also happens to be his fiftieth birthday.
“Asterios lived in this Manhattan apartment for almost two decades, but until seven years ago he spent most of his time upstate, teaching at a university in Ithica. He was a tenured professor of architecture—a position buttressed by his renown as a ‘paper architect’. That is to say, he was an esteemed architect whose reputation rested on his designs, rather than on the buildings constructed from them. In fact, none of his designs had ever been built.
“Nonetheless, He had won numerous competitions and awards, enough to have earned him a highly successful career. He taught because he enjoyed the intellectual environment.
“It was at the university that he met his wife.
“His career really began with the publication of his first book in 1975. It was based on his graduate work at Oxford, where he was universally regarded as a brilliant student. It had been the same at Harvard, and in high school before that.
“As a boy he had a voracious curiosity, and practically everything he read, he committed to memory. At four, he took apart an antique swiss clock in order to learn how it worked.
“His father, Dr. Eugenios Polyp, had immigrated as a child with his family in 1919. An exasperated Ellis Island official had cut the family name in half, leaving only the first five letters. Eugenios married a hopeful young girl named Aglia Olio and on June 22, 1950. After a painful, thirty-three hour labor, Aglia gave brith by Cesarean section to identical twins.
“One was alive, the other dead. The living one was named Asterios. The dead one would have been called Ignazio, that’s me.
“And now (fifty years later), Asterios is standing in the rain, watching his home burn up, thinking one thing: ‘Not again.’”
— From Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli, most likely the best book I’ll read in 2010, one of the most original and brilliant graphic novels I’ve read, and certain to be a classic.
Awesome Statement from Conan Regarding the Idiot Management at NBC
For the record, I love Conan’s tonight show, but admittedly watch it over the noon hour on Hulu.
