Posted on 04/06/2010 11:02:48 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
Besides using the iPad in bed and on the couch, you know the reason you bought this thing was for toilet entertainment. Verdict: It's decent but distracting and sometimes dangerous.
Setup Here's half the problem. In order to get your pants down for a No. 2 session (or zipper down for No. 1, if you're a dude), you have to use both hands. That means you need to place the iPad down somewhere. Not every bathroom is constructed with enough flat surface space to safely hold an iPad while you de-pants. The back of the toilet is fine, if slightly dirty, and the toilet lid is another option if you want to remove your clothing first, pick up your iPad, and then reposition yourself.
The top priority is to not break your iPad, though not getting it dirty comes in a close second. Like luggage in an airport, any time the iPad leaves your hands means it's time to worry. Overall, not so good.
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Apple's iPad becomes big fat intimate joke BUT and this is a big one the iPad is way too distracting right now to realistically use while you're doing your business. Instead of concentrating on the task at hand, you're flicking through Twitter, reading books, responding to emails, browsing the web, shooting triangles in Geometry Wars, slashing zombies or directing planes onto runways. That leaves little time left to do what needs to be done.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
People get paid to write this drivel?
LoL!~ Cell phones are another matter. The toilet is a cell phone magnet in my experience. If it falls off, I just wait for the inevitable ker-plunk sound.
iDump.
Have you actually seen one? It is small do drop in a toilet and get very wet. It is too big to flush down, however.
That’s a bit of a misconception. The iPhone and iPad can both multitask, they just can’t, or more accurately, won’t allow third party apps to run in the background.
Now on the iPhone I understood the reasoning: to protect the core functions of the device, and to keep the battery from getting sucked out of juice in an hour or two.
As for the iPad, those issues aren’t as great. And according to news reports, Apple is going to unveil iPhone OS 4 tomorrow. Speculation is that this upgrade will allow third party apps to run in the background, at least on the iPad, but maybe also on the iPhone. We’ll see.
What I would like to see is wireless data syncs between iPhone and iPad.
Just for info ... :-)
I’d lay it on the toilet paper roll.
Republicans read on the toilet too, never fear. They simply read more erudite fare.
Serratia was used in the 50’s and 60’s as a surrogate for radioactive fallout. It was released over cities. Along about 1972 we started seeing opportunistic infections caused by it. It causes pink pus in wounds and pink sputum in pneumonia.
My school lab had bottles full of mercuric chloride (2%) solution for disinfecting hands and work surfaces. That was my introductory class in the summer of '73. By the time I started grad school in the Fall of 1976, my profs were horrified when I mentioned that method of sanitizing surfaces.
I remember those flasks sitting on the counters from my first micro class.
RE: the 30 second rule -there was nothing in the link you posted about transferring bacteria from someone’s hand that is contaminated with fecal matter.
Floors are probably cleaner and drier.Bacteria probably die ,or at least become dormant, on a hard ,dry surface.Maybe the grad students could test this premise;it is likely to be more useful than many college projects.
My rule is: Don’t hand me any of your ****!
Like FR! (No, this isn't being posted from the john...)
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