“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

R.I.P. Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

You may have noticed a number of other universities that have long been broadcasting selected lectures over iTunes for anyone to subscribe to–well Harvard is now joining the pack. Look out for it when they start! And no…this doesn’t mean don’t go to class.

A doodle of a bad pun? How positively analog of us.

Hung up on the name? Well, what’s in a name? An iPad by any other name would still scrub Flash content as sweet. And most VES concentrators would agree… that bezel is fugly. But anyone who’s been in a large lecture hall knows that this school is chock full o’ Apple whores (er, SteveJobstitutes?).  So we know some of you will at least think about buying it. Is it honestly worth it? And amidst our iphones/ipods/ and MacBook( Pro)s, what could this possibly add to the already complex student experience? The reasons are sometimes subtler than you might think but here’s how this blogger sees it:

Rah-rah ah-ah-ah!

Well it’s Affordable? Kind of.

Yeah. So it’s not exactly friendly to those of us here on need-based scholarships. But at $499 you could waive part of your university health insurance, and even have enough left over to get those f*cking adapters (USB, really?). Just hope you never need a UHS prescription. [Note: avoid sweaty finals clubs where fist-pumping shirtless man-boys could fling body sweat into your face and give you conjunctivitis. Is that paranoid? Not if you can’t afford the copay.] Read the rest of this entry »

I mean it looks awesome, but….uh….all I can hear in my head when people say it is TAMPAX TAMPAX TAMPAX.

I still want to play with one. What do you think of this thing? Worth buying? Or simply a cool gadget that doesn’t have any true purpose.

the iPad in my mind

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