Medical Minute: Patience Versus Immediate Gratification
The people in this line in NYC aren’t waiting to donate blood. Nor are they waiting in line for hours to volunteer to help others. They are waiting in the hot sun to purchase a cell phone.
Every person in this line knows that the phone they seek will be able very shortly in huge quantities. But, no, they have to have it right now.
The people in this line are typical of our impulsive, over-indulged, narcissistic society: they lack the patience or the maturity to simply wait until the supply of these phones meets the demand.
Patience versus instant gratification is a quality that many of us lack because we give in to our impulses to keep up with the Joneses.
When you react to life in this way, you allow circumstances to control you. If you choose to allow pressures to drive your decisions, then you do not act from your heart. You deny your true self, and sabotage your success. There are other ways to feel alive, other ways to feel good about life and satisfy the emptiness with true fulfillment. Self-sabotage is not the answer. Stop living under the control of your impulses, and determine to respond to life with strength and character. [link]
Is Barack Obama The Most Dishonest President Ever?
US president Barack Obama is shaping up to be the biggest liar ever to occupy the White House. A bigger liar than even Bill “I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton.
It would be too time consuming to list all of Obama’s untruths, so let’s just skip ahead to the latest piece of fiction to come out of his mouth.
If you recall, Obama said this during the Commencement address to the Hampton University graduating class this past weekend:
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation,” Obama said at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.
Well, as others have already pointed out, the Huffington Post, ran this piece about Obama listening to Jay Z on his iPod. The same iPod that Obama claims he doesn’t own or know how to work.
You might say lying about an iPod is such a small thing. But Obama lies about everything. How can we trust a man who can’t even tell the truth about an iPod?
He lies all the time He lied about how often he attended services at Jeremiah Wright’s church; he lied about how his parents met; how his uncle liberated Auschwitz; how his dad came to this country. The guy just lies about his own background and life. What a phony…and, btw, for someone who decries people’s use of IPODs, why did he give one to Queen Elizabeth as a diplomatic gift – one filled with his own speeches. How priceless! Source
Obama: iPad is the Most Useless ‘Distraction’ Known To Man
So yesterday I met up with an old friend who brought along her Louis Vuitton messenger bag to our lunch date. Inside the bag was her brand new iPad.
She happily told me she wasn’t following the crowd because she had resisted the initial onslaught of overhyped iPad ads for at least a month before she finally gave in after reading on my blog that her favorite singer Monica had an iPad. She said she loves it.
Me, on the other hand, I still have no use for an iPad. I already have a MacBook Pro (which I’m typing this post on) and a HTC smart phone, which I hate, but it serves my purposes when I want to browse the Internet while out & about.
I simply can’t see myself dragging that monster iPad out of a bag just to check the sports scores — unless I just want the people around me to see that I have an iPad — and I am not that vain.
US president Barack Obama probably feels the same way. He doesn’t own an iPad either.
Obama told the graduating class of Hampton University today (April 9) that the iPad is just another useless invention that will only lead them to distraction as they try to find work in a dismal job market.
Last week Apple CEO Steve Jobs bragged that his iPad sold over 1 million units. With over 300 million people in the US, I am not impressed.
Besides, that figure doesn’t include all the replacement iPads exchanged by clumsy owners who dropped and broke their first units.
Celebs Out & About: Trina and Kenyon
Rap Diva Trina wanted the world to know that her reunion with former boyfriend Kenyon Martin was not a ploy to help promote her new album. So she packed him off to Atlanta yesterday to sit by her side while she signed CDs at DTLR sporting goods store in Camp Creek (a suburb of Atlanta).
This is how closely Trina monitors Kenyon’s every move like a hawk! My spies tell me that while Trina was signing autographs, Kenyon received a call on his iPhone. She immediately jumped up and demanded to see his phone. Once she was satisfied that the call was innocent, she resumed signing CDs.
Police Capture iPad Thief Who Ripped Off Man’s Finger
A thug who ripped off a man’s finger during a brazen daylight iPad heist is in police custody.
Brandon D. Smith, 20, was arrested during a routine traffic stop early Saturday. Police say Smith was one of two men who stalked the victim, 59-year-old Bill Jordan, after he purchased a $500 iPad from the Apple store at the Cherry Creek mall in Denver, Colorado on April 15th.
Mall surveillance video shows the two thieves following Jordan as he walked down a flight of stairs holding a white plastic bag with its knotted cord wrapped around his fingers. Jordan said he wound the bag’s cord around his fingers as a precaution so he wouldn’t drop the pricey machine.
The video shows Jordan leaving the mall through an exit to a parking deck when Smith quickly walks up behind him, snatches the bag and runs off. As Smith yanked the bag, the cord tightened on Jordan’s pinky finger ripping the tip of his finger off along with the tendons, ligaments and muscle, leaving only the exposed bone.
A surgeon later amputated part of Jordan’s pinky finger. Smith is being held in the Denver County jail on charges of robbery and second-degree assault.
Thanks to tips called in from the public, Denver police already knew who they were looking for when they rolled up on Smith’s car at 1:14 am Saturday. His mother must be so proud of him.
300,000 iPads Sold on Saturday
They say a sucker is born every minute. Well, on Saturday, 300,000 suckers paid around $500 to be the proud owners of an oversized iPod Touch that can’t even connect to the Internet without a WiFi hot spot.
According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, over 300,000 of the WiFi iPads were sold on Saturday. That estimate includes the iPads that were shipped to customers who pre-ordered.
Apple would have rolled out the 3G iPad on Saturday had AT&T not begged them to hold off for fear of crashing the broadband service and disrupting signals to millions of cell phones.
The iPad sales eclipsed the July, 2007 first day sales of iPhones by 100,000. But iPhone sales were limited to one phone per person back then. The iPads did not exactly fly off the shelves as analysts had predicted. Many Best Buy stores around the country report unsold iPads remaining on the shelves.
One Atlanta area Best Buy that I was in on Saturday (launch day), had several iPads sitting out on a table around 9 p.m. — and many more in the storeroom.
No one picked the units up until I started playing with one. As I turned the iPad over to look at the back, the slender unit slipped out of my hands and crashed onto the table. It wasn’t damaged, and I’m sure my grip would have been more secure had I paid $500 for it. But just the idea of carrying around something the size of a dinner plate just to surf the Internet when a handheld iTouch does the same thing, is ridiculous.
The iPad mania shows just how easy it is to create high public demand for something worthless by taking advantage of people’s insecurities and low self esteem.
Sales of the iPad will probably taper off as soon as people figure out they’ve been suckered in by the Apple hype machine.
Apple’s CEO, Jobs predicts the iPad will be a game changer. But if you recall, Jobs also said the two wheel Segway was a game changer before it debuted back in 2001.
In fact, the massive hype and build up leading up to the debut of the Segway was covered by all the major news networks because Steve Jobs said the Segway was the greatest invention since the Internet. He said the Segway would change the way we looked at transportation.
The only thing the Segway changed was the way mall cops get around the mall.
Don’t Think You Need An iPad? Think Again *UPDATED*
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I decided pretty early on during the iPad’s overhyped, pre-launch mania that Apple’s shiny new toy would be useless to me since it doesn’t have Flash and most of the websites that I visit requires a Flash player to view properly.
In addition to that, the size of the thing and the fact that it’s not a standalone device such as a laptop, is discouraging.
If there’s no table around to lay it on, Apple’s iPad will be too large and cumbersome to hold with one hand and type with the other when sending texts. And if I need both hands to handle the iPad, how will I answer my phone when it rings since this thing doesn’t have one?
Besides, I already have a Macbook Pro (which I love) and a new touch screen HTC smart phone (which I loath), so as the April 3rd launch date approaches, I ask myself, why do I need an iPad?
Then last night I stumbled upon ThinkGeek.com and this beautiful desktop iCade cabinet built especially for the new iPad.
The majority of you know you’ll be purchasing the iPad just to say you have one. So what better way to show off your new toy than to display it in this cute arcade cabinet?
The neat thing about the iCade is it actually works and you can play hundreds of classic arcade games such as PacMan and Donkey Kong on your iPad without developing a hump in your back from bending over it for hours.
To use the iCade, you slide the iPad down into the cabinet and dock it in a 30-pin cradle that links the iPad to the professional-grade arcade controls. To make the controls work, you’ll need the iCade app which will be available for download free in Apple’s online store by the iPad’s April 3rd launch date.
The cabinet comes equipped with integrated 2.1 dolby speakers and subwoofer and includes a 10w USB power adapter to keep your battery charged.
The iCade will set you back $149. But since you’re already throwing away spending at least $499 for the cheapest iPad model + $30 a month for a data plan from ATT, what’s an extra $150 down the rabbit hole?
Update:
Apparently this was an April Fool’s joke. Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this being a dumb joke.
