MobileRead's Win an iPad - E-Reader Survey

[Davimee]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I think I'm trying to say: "We're still waiting - patiently."

*lol* And here I was looking for an iPad in all the pictures.

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I think I'm trying to say: "We're still waiting - patiently."

And growing OLD in the meantime! Thanks for the translation. My brain without chocolate is useless! But I'm much better now!

[Davimee]

Originally Posted by David Munch

*Stares at the dust devil that tumbles by...*

Originally Posted by dsvick

While listening to the crickets chirping in the background...

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

A month since the survey closed and over 500 posts later. Is this a contest record?

And the theme song for this thread should be...

[Davimee]

Grrr... I'm still not figuring out how to post a video!

Ooh, I got it!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Davimee

And the theme song for this thread should be...

Now I wish I hadn't just given you Karma for that other post, because you deserve some for posting The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and MR won't let me Karma you again until I spread the love around!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Now I wish I hadn't just given you Karma for that other post, because you deserve some for posting The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and MR won't let me Karma you again until I spread the love around!

Karma given

[Davimee]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Now I wish I hadn't just given you Karma for that other post, because you deserve some for posting The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and MR won't let me Karma you again until I spread the love around!

Ha! Thanks! We first discovered the Ukulele Orchestra of GB when my daughter started taking ukulele lessons, last year. They are AWESOME and if we ever get over across the Pond (which I doubt will ever happen, but you never know) my two goals are to see the UOGB and at least one of the places visited in Doctor Who.

[Davimee]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Karma given

Thank you!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

What are you trying to tell us VR?

We are readers! We need words! If there is a message, I'm just not getting it!

He's using pictures, they are worth a thousand words .....

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

He's using pictures, they are worth a thousand words .....

Well, I guess I think that 1000 words in the right head are worth much more than one picture!

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

Well, I guess I think that 1000 words in the right head are worth much more than one picture!

Well, okay.

"As long as you are journeying in the interior of the Desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted shrubs; even these fail after the first two or three days, and from that time you pass over broad plains, you pass over newly-reared hills, you pass through valleys that the storm of the last week has dug, and the hills and the valleys are sand, sand, sand, still sand, and only sand, and sand and sand again. The earth is so samely that your eyes turn towards heaven—towards heaven, I mean, in the sense of sky. You look to the sun, for he is your task-master, and by him you know the measure of the work that you have done, and the measure of the work that remains for you to do. He comes when you strike your tent in the early morning, and then, for the first hour of the day as you move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side and makes you know that the whole day’s toil is before you; then for a while, and a long while, you see him no more, for you are veiled and shrouded, and dare not look upon the greatness of his glory, but you know where he strides overhead by the touch of his flaming sword. No words are spoken, but your Arabs moan, your camels sigh, your skin glows, your shoulders ache, and for sights you see the pattern and the web of the silk that veils your eyes and the glare of the outer light. Time labours on; your skin glows and your shoulders ache, your Arabs moan, your camels sigh, and you see the same pattern in the silk, and the same glare of light beyond, but conquering Time marches on, and by-and-by the descending sun has compassed the heaven, and now softly touches your right arm, and throws your lank shadow over the sand right along on the way to Persia. Then again you look upon his face, for his power is all veiled in his beauty, and the redness of flames has become the redness of roses; the fair, wavy cloud that fled in the morning now comes to his sight once more, comes blushing, yet still comes on, comes burning with blushes, yet hastens and clings to his side."*

....and still no word about the iPad.






* from Eothen by A. W. Kinglake

[Vintage Season]

A picture is worth a thousand words, if the picture is offered by someone with linguistic barriers, shoddy grammar, or insufficient vocabulary... or represents a highly detailed object or scene. Even then, you risk that individual's ability to either draw something better than stick figures, or snap an acceptable photograph.

The previous paragraph is only fifty words, but I am at a loss as to how its meaning could be condensed to a single image. Perhaps XKCD could do it.

- M.

[Godzil]

I will get my i4 before my iPad will come

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Vintage Season

A picture is worth a thousand words, if the picture is offered by someone with linguistic barriers, shoddy grammar, or insufficient vocabulary... or represents a highly detailed object or scene. Even then, you risk that individual's ability to either draw something better than stick figures, or snap an acceptable photograph.

The previous paragraph is only fifty words, but I am at a loss as to how its meaning could be condensed to a single image. Perhaps XKCD could do it.

- M.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A thumbnail is good for 50.

[WT Sharpe]

While we're waiting, here's my new desktop. It's the first time in quite a while I've anything on the screen. Usually it's just solid black with the icons hidden and the toolbar tucked away.



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