Like
So much nicer then squinting at my iPhone. So much.
Battery life
Nice calendar interface
All iTunes things transferred on sync
Keyboard works ok, still making mistakes and having to backspace or hold/move the cursor to fix things
It’s “snappy” to use, just like they said

Don’t like
App store is harder to browse, especially for free apps
I bought in the US and live in Canada, so had to setup a “free” US account just to access App store…this will change
Most Apps are still in iPhone format….this should change

I was tentative about buying it, but overall it’s taking over from my iPhone, for home use anyways, which was taking over from my laptop for most tasks. Amazingly, my laptops are now becoming my “desktops”, that is I will leave one at work and one at home….the iPad travels with me between locations or around work/house while the laptops generally stay on my desks, and everything resides in the cloud except media (videos, music and photos). But I really think it’s my iPhone use that is going down. I think I will upgrade to the 3G iPad once the Canadian plans have shaken out.

So run out and buy one? If you’re a techie sure, or getting ready for a new laptop but otherwise just wait to play with it at the Apple store, and definitely wait for the 3G versions

Sure is nice to use this sucker though….

I used to work in a warehouse as a “picker”. I’d drive around on a little electric vehicle picking up boxes from shelving units in long isles, assembling them into neat little cubes (yay for spatial training!) and delivering them to waiting semi’s. We used to compete on who could be the fastest, or just have yogurt fights. I was likely in the best shape of my life; who wants yogurt all over them? And I made some money to put me through university….and worked with some great people, some great memories.

And now, it appears we wouldn’t have as much fun:

Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses

but wow, how awesome is that? Another notch in Skynet’s belt.

What continues to amaze me about parenting is how it simultaneously expands and condenses time. The days can seem long, but the months fly by.

That really captures it for me. I feel like a goldfish sometimes. So I take video and photos in the hope that they will keep triggering the memories for me one day.

I went to the first video he did, ‘You Won’t Remember This’ and my wife spelled it out for me – that phase of our life is over.

There is something about the omnivorous now in parenting, and the constantly shifting challenges and demands of the moment, that creates a kind of rolling amnesia for everything yesterday.

I sure hope I got enough video of it cause I’m not much of an animator.

So, was this normal? Was he colicy? Were we doomed to the horror stories I’d seen on Nanny 911?

We very quickly accumulated a stack of books about 3 feet high on helping babies sleep. They spanned a spectrum from letting them cry it out to never letting a tear touch their cheek. As this was our first and we hadn’t been around babies very much we tried just about everything to “help” our child get to sleep and this went on for a number of months. Eventually we got onto “Healthy sleep habits, happy child” by Marc Weissbluth (disclaimer, I setup an amazon affiliate account and I may get a few pennies if you buy it). It helped us to understand what was “normal” at the various stages of our childrens lives and for my next children they had it much easier. They got more sleep, we got more sleep (more, that doesn’t mean enough…). Everyone was happier.

So, I sometimes come across first-time mothers and the inevitable question comes up, “does it ever end?” followed by, “how?”. I’m going to send them here because a) I can never remember his name and b) maybe it will help.

I’m partial to this one: Rancid Billy Dread

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Arrrr!

Now admittedly I didn’t build it. But I realized in that moment, in my son’s eyes, I could have.

I’m a geek, and a dad, and I’m proud.

Spending most of my time on twitter these days, there has to be a good way to integrate the two so that information isn’t silo’d over there.

No problems at all, w00t!