On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]>wrote:
> Happy Sunday all > > received and added to grand plan here is an iPad story my Dad who is 80, a technophobe, slightly right of Attilla the Hun in an eccentric old guy way who enjoys baiting the enemy [ ie: me a socialist anarchist lackey ] into circular political arguments that descend into ridiculousness fairly rapidly had a routine wake up round the time the newspaper was delivered ... wander down the drive get the paper .. make tea and toast ... read the thing cover to cover .. ring me and tell his new plan [ based on whatever he read ] to save everybody from themselves ... then for several days the paper didn't arrive ... and I didn't hear from him ... I didn't worry at first sometimes he takes a road trip I half expected him to appear at our front door .. but then I started to worry he was "down the gully with two broken legs" [ he usually won't answer his phone in case it is a telephone marketer .... ] finally about the fourth day he rings ... his paper hadn't arrived all week ... he rang the newspaper subscription office in the city to find out if he had put a hold on it and was actually supposed to be away visiting somewhere and had forgotten to go .. but no the News agency [ a kinda corner store that sells newspapers magazines lottery tickets stationary ect had gone broke and shut as papers can only be delivered by a registered news agent ... no paper ... somehow the idea that an iPad was good for reading the paper had filtered through to him and by the fourth day without a paper he had made a trip to town and could I help him set it up over the phone ... well I immediately passed that job on to my brother ... we already had the wireless broadband set up for when we are up at the beach now I get a morning email [ rather than a phone call ] Dad has very proudly reached level 5 of Angry Birds ... reads the paper on it ... one of my brothers loaded up a very large eBook library ... he carries it with him every where... it has a snazzy faux leather case with pockets for notebooks and pens and glasses ... and is called MY IPAD ... heaven help the world if he discovers social media mx > Sent from my iPad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
