iPad
oh my goodness yes!. someday, I promise myself, someday I'll learn how to really use the iPad. after using the iPad for seven years, that promise looks a little thin and tattered. I'm still a doofus. I do the few things I know reasonably well. but this isn't an appreciation of me, it's an appreciation of an artifact, a tool, of a design done right, an iPad. there were tablets before the iPad, and they were okay, they worked well. then Apple stepped in with the iPad, and we knew how a tablet computer was supposed to work, like the iPad. and for the few things I wanted to do with it, the iPad works almost intuitively. it's like an extension of my hand, and I figured out how to use my hand as a baby. go ahead, feel superior, I don't mind. I store my poems on my iPad, then use it to pick out the ones I want for a reading, copy them into a folder I set up for that reading, then order them the way I want to read them. my iPad is light enough to hold while I present my poems without getting the shakes, and it never loses track of where my poems are. so far, my iPad and I do this comfortably. I also take notes on it, in workshops and classes. if I need it for a calculation, I can do that. if I need it to find out where in the world I am, it'll do that. And there are many, many more things it can allegedly do, maybe a bazillion, but I haven't figured out how. I know people program on it. not me. I am told people do astronomical calculations on it. not me. it does what I got it for and maybe half a dozen other things I've tried. yea iPad! and thank you, Apple.
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