Every now and then a friend will tell me that the blog has gotten a little too “girly.” When that happens, it’s time for a Man Post. I’ll keep this one limited to gadgets and sports.
Gadgets:
Sometimes photos uploaded to flickr don’t get mentioned in a post. If you happened to check my flickr account 2 weeks ago, you saw my birthday present from my parents.
My official review? I love it. Don’t get me wrong, nobody needs an iPad and Apple is an evil corporation, but I can’t put it down. It was perfect for traveling this weekend. Read an eBook on the plane. Looked over some news stories while in the hotel room. Picked out a restaurant for dinner. Checked in for the flight home. Reviewed some material for my course. And, the monthly data plan was less than it would have cost to access wifi in the room for the weekend. By far my favorite app is flipboard. I am a sucker for news aggregation mixed with social networking. That, and any app that uses airplay, allowing me to stream content from the iPad to the tv with the appleTV, which was a birthday present from Kyllan. (Seriously, apple is evil. But, Just like Sony, I buy their stuff.)
The only real question is, was the gift really for me, or was it for baby girl Cody? Either way, she’ll be getting an iPad3 because of this.
Sports:
I can’t believe that I am going to miss the 1st round of the draft on Thursday while teaching and in the air flying to Jacksonville for rounds 2 &3! I’m not even going to be able to watch all the pre-draft hype. How am I supposed to feel like this could be the Jaguars year if I don’t watch the draft? How am supposed to laugh at Kyllan when the Cowboys make some absurd trade to select a player that will be arrested before the season starts? By the time I get home Thursday, the only news story will be about how Cam Newton did or did not go first overall! By the time we make it to Jacksonville, the only story will be on “how did _______ fall all the way to the 4th round? Could ________ be the next Tom Brady?” At least I can watch Jaguars news coverage while in Jacksonville and won’t have to suffer through non-stop Cowboys coverage in Dallas.
We cracked under pressure too and we also LOVE our ipad. We fought it for awhile. The kids adore it…more the little one than the older one. I love the statement that you made that nobody needs an ipad….you are so right. It is just one more thing that we can play with instead of doing laundry or something constructive. I will say it has been awesome to have the kids skype with family on it…..they can carry it around and show the fam. anything they want. The kids got itunes cards in their Easter baskets LOL!
My mom hasn’t discovered the whole skype and facetime on the iPad thing yet. I figure that as soon as she does, she’ll have one.