Posts Tagged ‘tech’

  • The iPad Will Not Save Your Life, Nor Will It End It

    The iPad Will Not Save Your Life, Nor Will It End It

    January 28th, 2010 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 50 Comments

    Everybody just calm down. Shhh. Breathe easy. Here, towel off with this pair of old underpants I found under my desk chair. Let it absorb all your sweat and stress and… well, whatever other fluids are seeping out of you right now. Are you calm? Are you better? Don’t relax so much you void your [...]

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  • The Apple Tablet Is The Second, Maybe Even The Third, Coming Of Christ

    The Apple Tablet Is The Second, Maybe Even The Third, Coming Of Christ

    January 27th, 2010 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 23 Comments

    No, seriously. We may have skipped the Second Coming. It didn’t happen fast enough. It didn’t happen awesome enough. The Second Coming wasn’t portable — you couldn’t take it into the shitter with you — and so Steve Jobs punts us right into the Third Coming. He’s good like that. The guy is basically a [...]

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  • 2009: Miscellaneous Debris

    2009: Miscellaneous Debris

    December 30th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 7 Comments

    It occurs to me, I’m leaving a ton of delicious pop culture scraps on the floor. I don’t want the mice to get them. Oh, sure, you think mice are all cute? I thought that way, once. And then the mice found their way into my silverware drawer and pooped on my silverware. For reals. [...]

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  • The iPhone As Helper Pixie (The Digital RPG Assistant!)

    The iPhone As Helper Pixie (The Digital RPG Assistant!)

    December 5th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 15 Comments

    I’ve sat around one good game table over the last… let’s just go with “many moons,” and while that was a big bag of super-fun (Maschine Zeit), I do miss gaming on a semi-regular basis. Time and distance are not fond friends to the process, of course, but it doesn’t stop me from pretending [...]

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  • Wii Mais Non

    Wii Mais Non

    September 19th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 10 Comments

    Dear Wii,
    I think you gotta go.

    Please be aware — if you have a Wii, and you like that Wii, you can and should continue to enjoy it. I’m not trying to insult you by insulting something you like. Geeks do this thing where, if you don’t like something they don’t like, they take that [...]

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