Posts Tagged ‘digitollywood’
I Have A Technology Problem
It’s true.
I have a technology problem.
In particular, a high technology problem.
I told you I would not be buying the first generation iPad. I gave you several reasons why I wouldn’t.
But late yesterday afternoon, it was like another entity took over my person, got in my car, and drove to the nearest Best Buy.
Once there, I walked directly to the Apple section of the store and started playing with an iPad.
Then, I started asking the sales guy a bunch of questions about synching it with my various Mac computers, the service plans, etc.
Before you know it, I was into a full on bender, waltzing through the iPad peripherals section as if I didn’t have a care in the world. I played with the wireless keyboard, the new iPad dock, some carrying cases.
This was gonna be bad.
Then, ready to pull out my Best Buy card, I discovered that they had no iPads in stock.
You’re kidding me, right? I’m like tech sleepwalking here. I’m like coming straight here, a man possessed, ready to buy, and you’re telling me you don’t have any iPads in stock!!??
The fourteen-year old, pimply sales dude told me to hold on, he had one more idea: He called back to the stockroom.
It was my lucky day. My technology addiction would be sated.
There was a single 64GB WiFi iPad that had been returned.
One.
As in uno.
Did I want it?
Are you kidding me? Does a thirsty man crawling through the Mojave want a bottle of cold Evian?!!
Better yet, I discovered I was going to get $50 off because somebody had returned it.
Why did they return it? I wondered to myself.
Who cares! It was the only iPad for sale for miles around, and they were over a week away from getting anymore in stock!
And I had one, in my hands!
Take that, Mac fanboys! I won!!
For good measure, I also bought a cool carrying case and the little iPad dock, paid my tab, and drove straight home.
Once back in my domicile, I turned on the iPad, glared at the gorgeous glossy iPad screen, and promptly wondered aloud to myself what the heck I was going to do with this thing.
Who cares what the heck I’m going to do with it!?
I finally have an iPad and it’s the coolest piece of technology I’ve ever bought!
Blogger’s Note: This blog post was written using my brand new iPad, so at least one utilitarian purpose has now been uncovered since it’s recent acquisition. I will keep you posted as to other useful uses also discovered after the fact.
The Apple iTablet Podcast
Scott Laningham and I got together via Skype this afternoon to debrief on the Apple iPad tablet announcement.
As I joked in the podcast, the iPad looks like an iPhone for for the Jolly Green Giant, but don’t mistake the seeming limitations of the razor for the giant opportunity to sell more digital razor blades.
Scott and Turbo Apple iPad Debrief Podcast (12:34, MP3)
Anything For Ratings
Anybody see the drama on “The Bachelor” last evening?
Whoaaaa…didn’t see that one coming.
And apparently neither did “The Bachelor’s” Web team, who as of this morning hadn’t updated Rozlyn’s bio, the status for which says “Still competing for Jake” (see screenshot captured around 8:30 CST today).
Is there something somebody isn’t telling me?
If you didn’t hear about the bombshell, last evening, it was revealed that Rozlyn was allegedly having an on-set affair with one of the production staff and, when considering she was supposed to be on the show to get to know Jake, it kind of defeated the point if she was consorting with the help.
And poor, poor Jake, who was innocently drawn into the black widow Roz’s arms and had even given her a rose before she stomped on his wittle bitty Texas heart.
See my prior post to see why I would even waste any pixels on this.
As for my own pick for Jake, so far I’m putting good odds on Ali to go all the way…so to speak.
But a seemingly nice girl like her had better grow some claws and soon if she wants to survive the vicious UFC Tiger Cage Fighting likely coming her way soon.
The fact that an unscripted reality TV show (read: cheap to produce) about a guy trying to find a wife on national TV is now two hours long is a barometer of exactly what the commercial broadcast TV industry has come to.
That, and the recent snafu with trying to figure out exactly what time slot would best work for Jay Leno…err, the local NBC affiliates.
Which, in turn, has led to lots of discussions about which network Conan O’Brien may best be suited for — after the suits at NBC have thrown O’Brien once again into Leno’s exhaust. “Conan, what are you doing under that Leno bus!?”
As for what to show in the coveted 10 PM time slot that allegedly serves as the savior for beefing up the ratings of your late local news, well…good luck with that. Maybe some “Seinfeld” reruns?
They’re calling that slot the “DVR hour,” although that’s what I’m calling every hour of television I watch these days. The only thing I might remotely watch live anymore is news or sports, and usually even sports these days is delayed so I can watch at my own pace and sans commercials.
Does nobody on Madison Avenue own a DVR??
No, John Boy and the rest of the Waltons can say “Goodnight” all night long to appointment television, and it’s high time that the commercial TV programmers start to rethink the entire programming slate.
Also, they might want to work more closely with their interactive teams, and Heaven help ’em, please update the Web page when something happens on the TV show.
Let’s face it, that’s about the closest thing to appointment TV you’ve got left, a bachelorette getting booted for philandering with the staff, and just because the show was taped last June doesn’t dismiss the need to keep the Web tie-ins in synch.
As for NBC’s empty TV time slot, perhaps Rozlyn could jump over to the Peacock network and strut her stuff and suggest her own new reality TV show there.
The pitch? Disgruntled ABC “Bachelorette” breaks Bachelor’s heart and sets out to date underemployed NBC executives trying to find ways to keep Conan O’Brien from going postal at 30 Rock.
I’d watch every second of it…on my DVR.