Disclaimer: I understand that all you iphone users out there love your babies. I'm not trying say anything bad about them, I'm just going to discuss my preferences.
So the iphone: what is the deal with the iphone? People freakin' love their apple products. However, I've spend way to many minutes of my life on a cell phone that didn't do its job: to be a phone. The jury is still out on how the iphone will rate as a phone. I've also come to love my verizon service, which does its job well. After seeing the iphone's big movie break in SatC when Carrie says "I don't know what to do with this," I sort of feel like it is just one more gadget in my life that be bring me one closer to too many.
What is my point? Do I just really love hating on the iphone? Well, yes, but I also have a point. Just now, while at the itunes store purchasing "Apologize" by Timaland, I saw that they have a graphing calculator app. This made me think, Wow, I could really go for an iphone. It turns out that the app still isn't bug free-it crashes the phone, and like most high school students I've met, uses the wrong order of operations. But, still, I do love my graphing calculator. I'm having fantasies of, in the manner of those who can't compute tax unaided, busting out my phone to do some math. But then, instead of doing a simple 20%, I would do, like do a little multi-variable equation using a matrix. Oh, Bob and Tom both made purchases using only dimes and quarters, and between them they used 30 dimes, and both purchases totaled $5.30. Don't worry I've got it. Let me just pull out my phone.
Oh, man, am I a dork.
Sometimes people ask me if I ever use calculus. My answer: well often my Dad uses calculus recreationally. Example: on a ski trip he ended a conversation with: "well, you just take a derivative of the mountain.
So the real question is nature or nurture.
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