It was inevitable, of course. It took more time than I would have originally predicted, actually, but our household has now moved on to the next level of Geekitude and acquired an iphone.
See how happy?
Tom has bravely stifled his desire to possess one of these little technical marvels for quite some time, now. Certainly, it wasn't exactly a necessity. But like a volcano about ready to blow, he had lately been giving off puffs of steam. Little jokes. Casual asides. Research. Attention to certain TV commercials. Think Ralphie and the Official Red Ryder Carbon-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.
I was neutral on the subject.
So, Saturday, we chugged down to Auburn to look at them. While Tom stood in line, I went over to the demo iphone on the wall. I stood there swishing my finger around on the little screen, scrolling, enlarging, typing. What?!
We got the basic run-down from the ATT Guy, much of which I had figured out, already, by playing with the demo. What's taken us so long to get one of these things? All the way home I played with the basic stuff--general layout, maps, compass (!), weather, camera--expertly pushing images around and magging-in and out as though I'd had one for years. OK, it's easy.
Since then, of course, it's all about hanging around in the online Apps Store. There are thousands (millions?) of them, many free or nearly so. Besides the internet access (now we can plug that annoying infomation gap when we-horrors!-don't happen to be near a computer), camera, music-player, and oh, yeah, phone, we now can get super-cool games (gotta download Zombie Pizza!), turn it into a little piano (or guitar) and install motion-sensitive sound effects--who can resist turning one's phone into a light-saber? Not Tom. Not me. It really is overwhelming and I can't look at the App Store site more than a couple of minutes at a time. But it is amazing. Not crucial for a high-quality life. But amazing.
I think there might even be a way to shoot your eye out with it...
