Count me as one who looked forward to the iPad but felt disappointment at seeing the actual device, for some of the same reasons "Working Mom" Katie Granju mentions:
I won't and really can't consider buying one until it has these missing features. And that's a bummer, because if it did have a webcam, a USB port and Flash capability, I would have been first in line at the Apple Store.
I growed up in rural Kentucky where many of us spent most of the summer outside with no shoes on, scoffing at the prissy few who felt the need to protect their delicate little tootsies (I think we called them "Hoosiers") so this is no big surprise to me, that "Long-Awaited Barefoot Running Study Finds Sneakers Are Harmful" because "Shoes change the human foot strike and may lead to more running injuries":
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is what I felt about "Catcher in the Rye" when I read it in my lousy high school class and what my life and all was like outside of class and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
This isn't exactly encouraging:
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect?
Oh, yeah, and Probert B. Parker, too.
Does that convey typographically that I was annoyed by the coverage of their deaths? Well, I was peeved, anyway. In fact, I had a near Mother Teresa moment. She and Princess Diana, recall, died within days of each other in 1997, and the coverage seemed stunningly lopsided. Oh, dear God, Di has been taken from us! How can any of us cope with our grief? She can never be replaced! The world mourns! Oh, yeah, and some nun expired. Worked with the poor or something.
I've always been impressed by people who have talent in more than one area. And I have so much respect for people who can create music. So I'm especially awed by those who succeed in one field but probably could have done well in music, too. Politicians like Bill Clinton and his saxophone and Condi Rice and her piano. Comedian Jack Benny and his violin. NBA great Oscar Robinson with his flute.
If you think the government interferes too much in our private lives here, just be thankful you don't live in France. A bill being pushed by Nicolas Sarkozy's government would make "psychological violence" between married and cohabiting couples "a matter for state intervention." And just what is that, exactly?
I hope Dutch and Maggie don't see this. They're sensitive creatures, and discovering they're not adored could send them into a funk for a week:
Clearly, there are dog people and there are cat people. But it's not much of a contest: 74 percent of people like dogs a lot, and only 41 percent like cats a lot.
So James Cameron now has two $1 billion movies. I saw the first one, which was supposed to be this magic combination of chick flick and guy movie, but my friend (a chick) and I (a guy) both had the same reaction: Will you please stop with the schmaltz and just sink the damn ship already!!?!??
Sheena Kiska lived in an apartment in Bristol, Ind., with her two young children. It was burglarized, and she wanted to move out, but the manager wouldn't let her out of her lease without paying three months rent, which would have been $2,500. So she stayed, and 30 days later, on March 18, 2008, there was another intruder, who beat and stabbed her to death.
Now, a Hoosier lawmaker, Democrat Craig Fry of Misawaka, wants to take some corrective action:
