The Belfry

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Themes of the iPad Announcement - SeoulBrother (via tbridge)

Me: I guess I’ve got a theme going. Here goes: I went to read the post quoted and linked above. On the site I came to this sentence:

Note: Instapaper this bitch because it’s long.

Aw. I love it when computer nerds get all chesty like that. Yeah, Instapaper that bitch! Y’all best step back and respect, this motherfucker’s gonna instapaper this web page. And don’t be gettin’ all up in his grill about it neither. Bitches. (Instapaper, by the way, seems to do for people what “save file to your hard drive” used to do. Did they do away with hard drives when I wasn’t looking?)

But yeah, something else by an iPad fanboy full of what we used to call macho posturing. Don’t get me wrong, I think the iPad is a neat gadget (yes) for people who want to do certain things and only those things. But it’s just a thing. It won’t make you a better writer. I won’t make you think more clearly. It won’t give you anything you don’t already bring to it. Though maybe if they added a program to it that gently (we are talking about Mac users here, they startle easily so you have to be gentle with them) suggested, each time someone wrote a phrase like “Instapaper that bitch!”, that maybe they should just chill and save the “verb that bitch” and “something as hell” phrases for situations that really called for it. It’s a nuance thing, you know?