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On today's Rhetorical Situation, Jacob and I fill your ears with love songs from Gossip, Portugal. The Man, The Magnetic Fields, and Howlin' Wolf. You can also hear my story about being nearly run down in a parking lot, and Jacob and I lament the lack of compassion on Facebook.

Oh, and, of course, we give you the usual 30 seconds of dead air right before the first song.

(If you want to read my thoughts on how technology like the iPad plays a part in adding to the widening gap between the upper and lower classes, go back to the first part.  If you want to read my pre-amble about workflows and how to move beyond "gadgets" in

(If you want to read my thoughts on how technology like the iPad plays a part in adding to the widening gap between the upper and lower classes, keep reading.  If you want to read my pre-amble about workflows and how to move beyond "gadgets" in your life,

I went out this morning and diagnosed the broken shift lever in the Chevy truck.  Diagnosis: broken. ;)

Ran to campus and dropped off some work today, then took a little mid-morning moto ride.

When IBM introduced the PC (yeah, like, a computer named “PC”, not just the personal computer), Apple ran a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal that could best be described as, well, snarky.  It looked like this:

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I spend hours every day on a computer. I make money with it. I interact with friends. I learn and experience with it. And yet it's still imperfect. Very imperfect.