Thoughts on the mobile internet

[xlagartixax]

I spent a very surreal day yesterday. Now that I'm making the Big Bucks (actually I haven't been paid yet but hope has emboldened me to exercise the credit card just a bit), I finally broke down and joined the ranks (the last kid on my block to do so) of Smart Phone Users.* For someone whose livelihood depends more or less on staying abreast of the

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[xredcordialx]

Do tell me what you think of the phone- I myself don't have a smart phone, and it is an investment I intend on making sometime when I finally have enough money.

Are people seriously calling it the Tea Party Of The Left? Because last time I checked, the state wasn't randomly inserting mace into the eyes of rednecks for fun...

[xlagartixax]

More to the point, the groups doing the protesting cover a wide range of the political spectrum (figure the 99% are anyone left in the country worth less than billions of dollars). Ergo some of them are, in fact, Tea Party members.

Now that this is starting to get US coverage outside the Twitterverse (and this in spite of the fact that Twitter's blatantly censoring the trending hashtags associated with the protests), it's starting to get hijacked by outside groups. The fact that President Obama, labor unions, Michael Moore, et al are starting to broadcast their solidarity makes it look a lot more partisan than it really is.

Which explains the pepper spraying, I guess.

[xlagartixax]

Also, the phone has been invaluable. I highly recommend it. I mean, it's nice to know when the next bus is coming, of course, and I just downloaded my first e-book, which is also nice. But seriously, if you're at all interested in this war of information that's happening all over the globe (or like me you're just addicted to said information), you pretty much need a smart phone to properly parse what's happening.

It kind of makes me ill to say that because of the implications for the haves and have-nots, but it's taken me all of a week to arrive at this conclusion. I think the last techno-epiphany I had of this magnitude was when I used a search engine for the first time.

[xlagartixax]

Radar Ratrace was for the Commodore 64, which I think our class had before the Apple IIe, but it was not the first computer I fell in love with. ;-)

Welcome to Apple or whatever it was called had a bunch of mini-games, like using the arrow keys to steer a rabbit through a maze. I seem to remember if you crashed him into a wall, he'd bump his head and give you an exasperated look.