Quick thought: iPad

Mark — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:28:43 +0000

I haven’t been neglecting this blog, honest. I just can’t finish any of the articles I want to write for one reason or another.

Just a quick thought. One of the most frequently heard questions I keep seeing over and over regarding the iPad is, “Why do you need it?” Now I have no interest in one myself — if I only casually wanted a portable PC, I’d be all over it, but I intend to go back to school eventually, and the iPad just wouldn’t cut it with its on-screen keyboard.

But I want to point out, it’s such a bullshit rhetorical technique. Everybody knows that nobody needs anything but food, shelter, and clothes if he or she is modest.

It’s perfectly okay to want/lust after something, and it’s nobody else’s business … except maybe creditors. I guess being an Apple fan is just a slightly more abstract hobby.

Rollerblading.

Mark — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:07:09 +0000

I had a big long post written out, but decided it was too wordy and whiny.

The crux of it

Rollerblading in downtown Toronto I feel like I’m the bastard child of of all commuters. Cars, pedestrians, cyclists: everyone hates us.

Yesterday though was something special. I was skating in the bike lane, and a cyclist flipped me off. Never mind that he was biking on the left-hand side, against traffic. Hey, he’s on a bike in the bike lane. Everything is right in the world except for the jackass daring to skate in the bike lane.

(For the record, I skate faster than most cyclists in Toronto.)

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Quick thought: iPad

Rollerblading.