{"id":5891,"date":"2011-11-05T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/05\/help-me-with-my-new-toy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T22:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T22:27:56","slug":"help-me-with-my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/05\/help-me-with-my-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me With My New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent in the page proofs for <cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite> this week, and by way of celebration, I went out and helped boost the economy by buying some consumer electronics:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-afca22c38f5e9e3828a03f9817ce4ced-ipad.jpg\" alt=\"i-afca22c38f5e9e3828a03f9817ce4ced-ipad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I now have an iPad. Just one with wi-fi, not the 3G version, because we already send Verizon enough money, and if I need instant access to my email absolutely anywhere, I&#8217;ve got an Android phone. But I like shiny things, and this is pretty darn shiny (even if I&#8217;m hampered by it needing an immediate software update that&#8217;s taking six hours).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have a few ideas about what to put on this, and SteelyKid definitely has some ideas about what to put on it (one of her first requests on seeing it was &#8220;Let&#8217;s play Angry Birds!&#8221; She had to settle for playing it on my phone, because it hadn&#8217;t finished downloading). But I know there are plenty of people reading this who have had one of these for way longer than I have, so: What are the must-have apps that I need to maximize the shininess of the new gadget?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent in the page proofs for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog this week, and by way of celebration, I went out and helped boost the economy by buying some consumer electronics: Yes, I now have an iPad. Just one with wi-fi, not the 3G version, because we already send Verizon enough money,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/11\/05\/help-me-with-my-new-toy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help Me With My New Toy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}