So we’re back, and there was no time to blog, as it turned out: there was just too much stuff going on during the trip, both work and play. Now I have a lot of piled-up mail and business to deal with before there’ll really be time to post the many pictures we took. Anyway, we had fun: the weather held fair the whole time, which is a lot to ask, this time of year.
I stumbled across something neat, though. There’s a website called iPodLounge.com which caters to those happy folk who possess one of these sweet little things. (And one of those, as of a couple of weeks ago, is me.) One section of the site is dedicated to iPod “travel photos” — pictures people have taken of their iPods in interesting places, and sometimes using the image reflected in the iPod’s mirrored back surface to show where they are (the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai, for example).
There’s also an area where people can post pictures of iPods as art (check out the SnowPod at the bottom); and in another gallery, a contest has been going on for site users interested in designing new “concept” iPods.
Well, I must have had another of those Corel Photo-Paint blackouts after seeing that, because I can’t think how else this would have happened. (The image also appears somewhere or other on this page: I don’t seem able to do a fixed link to it — the URL changes dynamically as new images are posted.) Such a device does seem like a logical extension of possibilities we’ve already seen played out in earlier volumes of the Young Wizards series: wizards in general seem to be almost the archetypal “early adopters”…so it wouldn’t surprise me if one of these turns up in Wizards at War. We shall see.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for the first question about why the “bite” is missing….
