Last week the police had to be called to interrupt a fight between two young men over an available iPad2 in Beijing China. Of course the Apple staff could not be reached for comment as they were too busy taking pictures of the incident on their iPhones. Malachi Urbini, an Art Institute of Pittsburgh student, was killed Sunday after he tried to trade his IPad and his IPod for heroin. What has this world come to? To heck with the gluttony and wrath from the Seven Deadly Sins; we now have brand new ones.
The Personal Computer
It started out innocently and it initially was costing me a fortune in monthly internet fees. There really wasn’t much out there on dial up when I started except BBS boards. We were content to have the best flame wars ever known to man on a brown screen with yellow text.
My sons progressed down the cyber road like college graduates and pretty soon I was in charge of a Grade 3 class that did their book reports on the library computers. I just smiled and had no idea what cut and paste was until six months later when the next one was due. I was finally cutting and pasting with the best of those eight year olds. The teacher walked by and put a gold star on my hand pleased that I had finally come up to an elementary school status in the cyber world.
iPhones
I never thought I would see the day where you could walk, talk and ignore life on a phone that could go out of the range of an antenna on a telephone base. What kind of miracle of life is this? I am still impressed with the LED lights on a calculator so how was I ever going to figure out apps, buttons and all things that are not friendly to Linda. Ebay sent me a pair of earphones when they bought Skype and I only use them to listen to music on my laptop. When someone calls me on Skype I tell them to call back on a real phone since Skype is like listening to someone speaking in a tin can.
Big Screen TV
A nowgoes out on a mission to find the biggest TV he can. The bigger the TV the bigger the balls he can throw around to entice the ladies or his friends. The proof is in the following Craigslist ad.
"I just want you to know I will date a woman between 3ft and 7ft tall as long as they are proportioned properly. Second you don’t have to make $150,000 a year! If you didn’t apply yourself last year and only made $149,000 in coin go ahead and contact me. I might be able to overlook that. The house is nicely furnished and I have a full blown home theater and big screen so the action feels like you're there.
Maybe a beer or two, BIG SCREEN TV and maybe even get off to some porn!” (unedited)
Internet Porn
Things have come a long way since the 35 mm black and white films shown in college days. Now your next door neighour might have a production company in his basement and you would never know it.
Do it yourself films are filling cyber space with titles like:
I’ve got Wood
Driving Miss Daisy Crazy
On Golden Blonde
Terms of Endowment
iTunes
What happened to the day you could go shopping for music and enjoy it? Headline News recently reported that a Memphis woman was charged with murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with her 60GH iPod Photo. It was later found out that the story could possibly have some "iHoles" in it.
The iPad
I fondly call this little number a glorified Etch a Sketch. I have been told there is some difficulty doing things but movies are great to watch on it. Steve just emailed me (from his phone!) to say he could not email me on his iPad2.
They are very hard to find and Craigslist has some available for 800 to 900 dollars. You can find them between the listings for a Sharper Image Massage chair and a Heartway Rhumba mobility scooter. Clever people know where they can get more bang for their buck in the classifieds. You most certainly are not going to get it with an iPad. That is what you use your laptop for.
The thing I do not understand about Facebook is the “it’s complicated” button. What does that exactly mean? Or how about the over 200 photos of the newest pet that people upload? Facebook is also the leading offender that is driving up the divorce rate. When and where will it end?
Never!
Google has just announced that their phone and tablet is going to have an app to double as the ultimate TV remote control. Who in the family is going to control this phone? Is this going to become the next deadly sin of us all after deaths have occured in attempting to change the channel?Interestingly my spell check recognized none of these brands that I typed in as deadly sins and I asked myself.
Is Apple really the devil?
Text and Images: Linda Seccaspina
Dedicated to Catherine Forsythe who is probably shaking her head right now. :)
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Mary Mary Mary.. I love you..:)
I thought you were supposed to be working..:) HMMM this place is like drugs isn;t it..:)
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Thanks for posting the video:)
Hayley: Like someone with a brain is going to run over there hahaha
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Snoopy paid me a daily visit`gin. Naughty.
To teach third grade must be wonderful.
Pupils no have nasty adult creepiness, yet.
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Nowadays scanner poke and pat folk down.
If you see beauty in a woman's form? Slap!
tease.
I ain't got no impure thoughts. Wear socks.
Soft Alpaca socks make blogger act sweeter.
Lefty-wing-nuts screw lefty-tight and berate.
Right-wing-nuts rattle in cranial cavity loose.
If Left or Right nuts rattles in head? Shake it.
You wrote ...
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Catherine Forsythe ...
She probably "shakes her right now."
I love when I can't label left or right.
If people can read my thought they`
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Ma slap me.
But, I hope not.
I mean no harm.
Who blocks comments?
I can tell will I'm hacked.
Take Kerry to woodshed?
Spank behind a outhouse!
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This sure do act 'fishy' `gin.
By the way, hotels are going to have to add more outlets. I had a helluva time figuring out how to get everything charged up last night.
Rugrat: I told you not to stay there hahahaha
I'm already stressed out, adding gadgetatious jigginess when I'm out and about won't benefit me. I keep an oMap and oPhoneBook in my car, if I need to find a business I use the oPhone and call an oHuman for a location.
Spell check hates my comment, and I love this post!
Take Kerry to woodshed?
Spank behind a outhouse!
:)
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They are only that way so that they can fool their little selves into thinking they're superior.
It's all bullshit and, they have a full supply..
If I have cyber troubles and our fair Catherine tells me how to fix it by the end of two weeks I have it figured out..:)
Unless someone pulls the plug we are into the cyberage with a bang. I for one love it but then I love most sins.
Driving Miss Daisy Crazy
On Golden Blonde
Terms of Endowment
Love these titles and love this post. I am actually scared and worried over all these wireless devices. Nice post and POV. Your sons like my friends are like western gun slingers with these devices. Any time a question arises out come a device and within moments the answer is there.....but at what cost to our DNA ? Then the passing on of this DNA in an destructed form for future generations.Thanks for this post, Our blogging genius!
Interesting stuff Linda...I likey.
Brassawe: LOL I know.. who knew what went on in the homes of America??
Jon: I so believe that video of Matt's.. I have seen something similar.
Zanelle: We all love our naught girl..:)
Will: I agree about the bullshit but where is it going to end? BTW I bet you were a hell of a BBS board flamer..:)
BSB: I agree no rush.. Death is coming faster for me than a new iPad..:)
BUT the PC saved me $$$$$ of psycho analysis treatment..:)
can you see the invisible glue on my fingers? :) I have to go out today and it;s killing me..:)
I liked the Pixar video. I took Amtrak to SF almost once a week for a couple of years. Changed from train to bus and rolled through Emeryville, past Pixar to the Bay bridge. Always wondered what Emeryville was like but never had time to walk around. Seems an unlikely place for anything creative.
Thanks to you, now I know.
We're trying to get down South if the weather ever clears!
Catherine: I would so love to know just an with of what you know.
But that is not to be. I understand about the phone..:)
These just may be the new sins.
Let's dance..:)
I have no intention of giving it up, I came here
to share a new app with you.
Wonderful post, I want to eat at Rudy's
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R Poetess: You love your etch a sketch:) HUGGGGG
In the UK there's a web site called Friends Reunited, where you put in your elementary school, cub scout pack, HS, college etc and regain contact with people you would avoid if you were crazy enough to go to the reunion. Apparently it has led to a stunning number of divorces when former HS sweethearts abandon their probably relieved spouses for each other. Wonder how long it takes them to find out the person it was fun to fumble with in the back of their dad's Ford out by the bay in 1972 is actually a total psycho and impossible to live with and they should have stuck with the first wife who may have lost her figure but at least has foibles you know and can tolerate as she tolerated yours for so long (person who told me that shall also remain nameless).
I will say, I do love and rely on my iPod. It's not just that I love having music to work by when I'm at work. It's a hand-held sanity device and aid to concentration, and a lot cheaper than a murder trial. Without it, I might have murdered one of my colleagues a thousand times over.
I'll buy an iPad when they come up with a name for it that does't make me think of feminine hygiene products.
=o) Is Apple actually the devil? I don't know--I'm pretty sure they're not the true God, or true prophet, though.
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...and I'm glad to hear I don't need an iPad2... : )
about your own presence in the online world
note: speaking of Etch-A-Sketch,
what are we going to about
acid in the paper that is burning scars
in the faces of people who are only
in pictures now?
Lezlie
(sorry, couldn't resist!)
Facebook doesn't cause divorce. It just provides a means to make your spouse leave you faster than they would have anyway. I imagine some folks' marriages have been saved by giving the other somewhere else to natter all day long. "Look what I just did! come, look at this! did you know .... " Like OS does for other marriages.
GoogleMap is an app.
**Giggle**
I still haven't fell into Facebook. Some of my friends are like, "You need to join!!!! UPDATES!!!"
"You can just send me an email with UPDATES I need to KNOW! I don't need to KNOW that you're at a fancy restuarant without me!" **giggle**
GeeBee: WOW.. that story was something else. I know at least 10 people that have 'It's complicated" on their FB page. Get un complicated please.
Christine: If I cold look a piece of tech in the face and udnerstand then I might be a wee bit great hahaha
Shiral: I am going to do a Cyril the Gnome here to that ipad comment.. lololololololol:)
Chrisssie: tell me about it
Victoira: Thanks
as shiral said ipad- sanitary products hahahaha Thats what they will think
Alysa: I prefer the etch a sketch.. at least you can control it.UNTIL you drop it hahaha
Leon: I am!!!
Ume: YOU are a prophet like my friend Brassawe
Walter... we are gluedddddddddddddddddd
Lezlie: That is what I think.. so many new sins..
Maurene: dont ask don't tell LOL.. that is a good one
Rolling: Bucket list for Linda: One postcard from Rolling from the moon..:)
Cindy: Well you must have Skype from some other channel hahaha. Everytime my son calls me it is awful.
Oryoki: so well said
Ava.. welcome!! glad you have apps..:)
Techie.
Believe it or not, I actually received a handwritten letter the other day. Seeing the paper and pen marks the person made gave it an intimacy that email never has.
Hugs me: Oh I remember those days.. I had no phone, nothing hahaha
Scanner: Congrats on the EP and I so agree with you.
Dianaani: Now there is a sci fi book ready to be written:)
Cranky: I know those sites and I think that is why I joined FB to start off with..:) Easier access..:)
-R-
great post
r
And Linda, your porn titles reminded me of the double bill gracing one of Times Square's sleazier movie houses way back when: Backside to the Future along with The Hindlick Maneuver.
Leepin: Catching any good Id"s??:)
Cyril: Or a nice letter:)
Jack: I agree but we are losing personal contact with everyone
Gigi: HUGGGGGG
Wow.. those typing teachers must be rolling over in their graves.:)
My typing teacher circa 1979 had helmet hair that made her look like a cone head. She wore pantsuits that looked like ugly sofa upholstery. She must have been about 93 . She'd loom over us as well as a 4 foot six inch gnome can loom and pronounce "You're peeee-king again, honey!"
If she's rolling in her grave, I never want to visit that cemetary!
Shiral: LOL you havea to be the funniest person around
BrianB: LOL what was your first clue.. hugggggggg
Jerry: If you develop an app your life is made as some of these youngsters know. An app to God??:)