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I am Tabletized

Used to be you could get traumatized. Although the exact meaning of that is unclear one can sort of begin to understand if one were to say witness a shoot out at your local pizza parlor leaving everyone including the cook bleeding or dead. More sauce than you care for. That can leave one traumatized I think. These days I am betting that people are feeling tabletized. Not in any small part due to consumption of all manners of tablets (or pills or gels or capsules or berries or the next wonder drug) but because of all these pieces of glass that suddenly everyone's uncle from Haiti to Vietnam is manufacturing. I mean have you seen the crop lately? From the quintessential iPad and its various incarnations with or without lightning striking your fancy there is simply way too many jolts from the all the advertising surrounding these fancy new screens. On the Surface it would appear to be good old fashioned competition but by the time you actually understand the Playbook its quite the Galaxy of idiocies. For one I am a big fan of PAD Thai amongst other things Thai but with the onslaught of the new Pads I am not sure I can take the heat. It seems without one (Pad that is), one is left without a 'Pad'dle up shit creek. Your old PeeCee is Passe it seems. Add to that the wonders of the Cloud and you get a brave new and yet cloudy world where Big Data is more important to mortals than say Anna Data (food provider in erstwhile Indus languages) and a Pad in hand is worth more than one to sleep in. Babus in the Indian government are seriously thinking of redoing the titling for people that achieve extra ordinary fame in a subject and calling them iPADa and iPAD2a and iPAD3a instead of PADma Bhushan et al... along the lines of PrabhuPada..
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  1. RajendraNovember 20, 2012 at 5:03 PM

    Pads were earlier asset-boosters for some Bollywood beauties who lit up the screen. At least they have come out of the closet now, in the form of the forbidden fruits of the Eden Gardens..the Apples.

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  2. Diamond HeadNovember 20, 2012 at 7:59 PM

    Bonglas and others I agree (outside the gardens)

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