I got an iphone last night for just $49! What a great deal!! I only had to sign up for two more years with my provider and pay a $15/month date package charge. Such a great, great…
Wait.
Let me use this new iphone to multiply $15 by 24 months… Add $49. That’s $409. Hmm… Looks like $49 becomes $409. That one little zero makes a world of difference.
But who cares???!!! I am now bona fide. I’m in the 21st century. I’m one of those people. I’m… locked in yet another contract. Argh.
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A couple months ago I heard this story on NPR about a game called Angry Birds. People raved; it was the cat's meow. Apparently the intellectuals were all in love with this game where pigs have stolen a baby chick and the adult birds are upset, so they catapult themselves via catapult into the ever increasing pig built labryinths of ice sheets, boards, TNT, etc, in an effort to… to knock it down. (Admittedly Terry Gross described it a bit better on the air)
I was perplexed. Is this a metaphor for the middle East conflict? A retelling of Dante’s Inferno? An old fashioned think piece? A game that might ruin my life? Or a huge waste of time and yet another reason to avoid actual human interaction?
Jury's still out. But they got my 99 cents for the app and it’s worth every penny.
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