Yesterday the dominating topic of conversation was Apple’s release of the iPad. Alot of people were speculating about how it would look and what it would do but the actual release went something like the third Matrix flick. The ideas of speculation were better and more exciting than the real thing.

Now that’s a harsh comparison.  The third Matrix movie was terrible at best and should have never been made.  That’s not the case with the iPad.  Once the tech world gets over the fact that it’s not a write-on supercomputer that brushes your teeth while high-five’ng your iPhone they’ll come around.

The truth is the iPad is a natural progression of digital media.  This is your new favorite book or an interesting magazine you read on the toilet. It’s the morning paper and your email you read while eating breakfast.  You iPhone was cool but tiny.  Your laptop was powerful but bulky.  The iPad feels more like traditional media than anything we’ve had before.  And at $500 most of us can have one!

Come one, you weren’t expecting the iPad to be that cheap (I wasn’t).  Especially if you had envisioned a keyboardless laptop.

So what’s next:  a stylus?  a bigger screen?
Maybe, but I’ll bet it’s a low wall outlet in your bathroom.

No doubt you’ve seen the barrage of commercials touting the latest item to grace the McDonald’s menu. Yep, coffee.  McDonald’s has sold coffee, well, forever and we’ve all heard plenty about it with the famous hot coffee spillage lawsuit but until recently fancy coffee was something you had to get at Starbucks or the like.

I’m a fan of Starbucks myself, the product anyway, but hearing the overly happy barista read off my total evokes a cringe every time.  I’m willing to pay for two reasons, it wakes me up like a hurricane and it tastes freaking awesome.  I hate coffee but I love a Starbucks mocha-frap. Yum!  Soooo, naturally I had to give Mickey-D’s a shot.

I ordered 2 drinks, a medium mocha frap and an iced coffee for the wife. Both drinks are larger than their Grande equivalents and look about the same, complete with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. My total however was quite different. Five bucks for both and since I had a coupon I only paid two dollars! That’s all fine and good but how does it taste? Slurp. Not like Starbucks; I can tell you that. The Starbucks dynasty may not need to sell off the furniture yet. My frap tastes about like a McD milkshake with coffee added. Not bad but not great either. My wife reported her iced coffee to be crazy-sweet and “no Starbucks.” Oh well. It still had a kick and certainly wasn’t bad by any stretch. Two bucks well spent I’d say but nothing to, cough, blog about.