Dear Apple, Love from Daedalus
Dear Apple,
Wake me up when you've finally invented something that could come near to Daedalus' laptop.
Sincerely,
Me
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To everyone who's following Apple news about their new products launch tonight, just remember - no matter how good Apple is, Daedalus is still better. Because Macbook? iPad Air? Pffft! Laughable!!! Daedalus' gadget will own them all! (We just have to wait until someone invents it...)
Percy passed out early, which left Annabeth with nothing to do in the evening except stare at her computer.
She'd brought Daedalus's laptop with her, of course. Two years ago, she'd inherited the machine from the greatest inventor of all time, and it was loaded with invention ideas, schematics, and diagrams, most of which Annabeth was still trying to figure out. Ater two years, a typical laptop would have been out of date, but Annabeth figured Daedalus's machine was still about fifty years ahead of its time. It could expand into a full-size laptop, shrink into a tablet computer or fold into a wafer of metal smaller than a cell phone. It ran faster than any computer she'd ever had, could access satellites or Hephaestus-TV broadcasts from Mount Olympus, and ran custom-made programs that could do just about anything except tie shoelaces. There might have been an app for that, too, but Annabeth hadn't found it yet.
- Mark Of Athena by Rick Riordan, Chapter XVII
I would really love to have a laptop that ties my shoelaces. Better yet, I want it to also re-arrange my closet for me and wash and dry and style my hair every morning. Please.
Wake me up when you've finally invented something that could come near to Daedalus' laptop.
Sincerely,
Me
*
To everyone who's following Apple news about their new products launch tonight, just remember - no matter how good Apple is, Daedalus is still better. Because Macbook? iPad Air? Pffft! Laughable!!! Daedalus' gadget will own them all! (We just have to wait until someone invents it...)
Percy passed out early, which left Annabeth with nothing to do in the evening except stare at her computer.
She'd brought Daedalus's laptop with her, of course. Two years ago, she'd inherited the machine from the greatest inventor of all time, and it was loaded with invention ideas, schematics, and diagrams, most of which Annabeth was still trying to figure out. Ater two years, a typical laptop would have been out of date, but Annabeth figured Daedalus's machine was still about fifty years ahead of its time. It could expand into a full-size laptop, shrink into a tablet computer or fold into a wafer of metal smaller than a cell phone. It ran faster than any computer she'd ever had, could access satellites or Hephaestus-TV broadcasts from Mount Olympus, and ran custom-made programs that could do just about anything except tie shoelaces. There might have been an app for that, too, but Annabeth hadn't found it yet.
- Mark Of Athena by Rick Riordan, Chapter XVII
I would really love to have a laptop that ties my shoelaces. Better yet, I want it to also re-arrange my closet for me and wash and dry and style my hair every morning. Please.