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Thursday Musings
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 12:58 pmSo, the iPad.
It looks pretty - very pretty - but in all essential respects, it’s just an oversized iPod Touch for people with fat fingers. There’s still no multitasking, there’s still no flash capability and it’s still tied to iTunes for er… everything. I can live with that on an iPhone, though the lack of multitasking does annoy me somewhat, but on what is supposed to be the next generation laptop computer..?
Even if I could afford one right now, I think I’d wait until the competitors have produced something to goad Apple into making it work more like a modern computer should. Touch screen jollies and virtual keyboard not withstanding (and how much are they going to charge for the screen protectors?). See the owners constantly polishing the screens to get the finger prints off.
Away from the world of disappointing technology, I am trying to decide if it is now warm enough to dispense with my winter pelt and go back to my customary goatee (or Van Dyke, as some would say) beard. This weekend I shall be running the clippers over the largely bare melon anyway, so it may be time to dig out the razor and shave it back properly.
Apart from any considerations over the ambient temperature of these so-called temperate latitudes of ours, the damned thing is going grey on the underside of my chin, so unless I let it grow out in a ZZ-Top Gandalfesque fashion, from a distance it looks as though I have Farmer Giles sideburns and a dirty neck. An incidental side benefit (other than the saved cumulative cost years of hair cuts) of going bald is that you don’t tend to notice the get creeping in as you get older. With beards this is untrue. Even for someone like me with naturally fair hair, the beard is darker, so the grey shows up more and it’s now gone past the salt and pepper stage (on the chin at least). If or when the grey creeps up the front, my goatee will start looking like a goucho moustache for a while before becoming generally invisible from a distance at which point my bald pate will start looking like a hard boiled egg. The point of having the face fungus in the first place is to make it look less like there’s something hatching on my shoulders.
And prehensile eyebrows. I hate that. No-one warned me about that.
It looks pretty - very pretty - but in all essential respects, it’s just an oversized iPod Touch for people with fat fingers. There’s still no multitasking, there’s still no flash capability and it’s still tied to iTunes for er… everything. I can live with that on an iPhone, though the lack of multitasking does annoy me somewhat, but on what is supposed to be the next generation laptop computer..?
Even if I could afford one right now, I think I’d wait until the competitors have produced something to goad Apple into making it work more like a modern computer should. Touch screen jollies and virtual keyboard not withstanding (and how much are they going to charge for the screen protectors?). See the owners constantly polishing the screens to get the finger prints off.
Away from the world of disappointing technology, I am trying to decide if it is now warm enough to dispense with my winter pelt and go back to my customary goatee (or Van Dyke, as some would say) beard. This weekend I shall be running the clippers over the largely bare melon anyway, so it may be time to dig out the razor and shave it back properly.
Apart from any considerations over the ambient temperature of these so-called temperate latitudes of ours, the damned thing is going grey on the underside of my chin, so unless I let it grow out in a ZZ-Top Gandalfesque fashion, from a distance it looks as though I have Farmer Giles sideburns and a dirty neck. An incidental side benefit (other than the saved cumulative cost years of hair cuts) of going bald is that you don’t tend to notice the get creeping in as you get older. With beards this is untrue. Even for someone like me with naturally fair hair, the beard is darker, so the grey shows up more and it’s now gone past the salt and pepper stage (on the chin at least). If or when the grey creeps up the front, my goatee will start looking like a goucho moustache for a while before becoming generally invisible from a distance at which point my bald pate will start looking like a hard boiled egg. The point of having the face fungus in the first place is to make it look less like there’s something hatching on my shoulders.
And prehensile eyebrows. I hate that. No-one warned me about that.
