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“But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate exception that the monosyllable nuoc reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (van nuoc) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nuoc‘ (yeu nuoc).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

How I use my iPad personally

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Going off on what Miguel has been talking about, the iPad isn’t for the smooth-blind.

That is, if one cannot envision oneself utilizing the iPad as an enabler of a smoother media consumption (sometimes production) device, well, you can lead a horse to water, but…

 Here is how I use my iPad, personally.

  • Media consumption while in the kitchen, laying in bed or in the John
  • TED talks while I am eating at the dining table
  • Review Twitter feed using the Flipboard app - once you go flipboard, you can’t go back
  • Review RSS feeds using the Reeder app - I used to mess with Byline, because it has a free Ad version, but Reeder is just some kind of wonderful (hi Talib)
  • Break out ideas using the iThoughts HD app - mindmapping is almost better than sliced bread with smeared almond butter and honey, almost
  • Read ebooks within my Kindle and iBooks apps - (backlit for sundown and most importantly, what Miguel has been talking about)
  • iA Writer, for personal journal entries - arm yourself with an Apple external bluetooth keyboard, and you’re set, like a devil with a blue dress
  • Reading comic books using the Cloudreaders app - as of late: Kick-Ass, Astonishing X-Men, X-Men: First Class, Wolverine Noir
  • Goodreader - to read PDFs, because you can highlight, most important for indexing, because what would be the point of reading if you can’t refer back to your highlights
  • Playing multi-player games with people like Monopoly or Carcassonne (and getting kicked out of brunch joints for doing it)
  • Maps as a navigation device while traversing a new city in Vietnam on zee motorbike - Vietnam 3G, and a running back’s arm extension: necessities

This is how I used the iPad at work, whiles back.