Since the iPad wasn’t available in Canada until late April, Nick Small and I drove down to New York to pick one up on day the iPad launched. After explaining to the border patrol why were crossing into America at 1am we finally arrived at the Apple store at 3am, only to find a line already 10 people long.

Apple gave us coffee and I even got to slur my way through a small local news interview after a night of no sleep.

The line up was very long (around 200 in the reserved line and about 150 in the non reserved) so getting there early was definitely worth it.

The experience of purchasing the iPad was incredible. The Apple store employees opened the store with a little song and dance and when an owner of a new 9.7″ inches of glass walked out the store the employees applauded. When people say Apple has a “cult following” they aren’t kidding.

The iPad itself is truly amazing. I took it to a party the next day and it was a hit. People were passing it around showing off their photos and watching yours truly on TV.

What do I use the iPad for? Other than it completely revolutionizing the way I eat breakfast, I have found a few practical uses for my new iPad…

1. It replaces my ebook reader when I read ui/design books
2. RSS reader
3. An excuse not to cuddle with the girlfriend
4. Something to use in the kitchen when waiting for things to cook
5. Showing clients mock ups and designs (which is way more intuitive than bringing a laptop)

There is a lot of negativity surrounding this device, since people aren’t focusing what the iPad is on a macro scale. The iPad is a blank slate computer where the applications define its purpose, not the hardware.

Unfortunately, the iPad’s user interface doesn’t feel polished and lacks Apple’s legendary attention to detail. I wish I could go more in depth into this issue, but I sold my iPad to keep the loan sharks off my back a little longer.

The glossy screen is also a major negative.

Overall, I love the iPad and am looking forward to waiting in line again to grab a replacement iPad when it comes to Canada. Kidding. Sort of.

The ducky and flowers were taken with a 70-300mm VR and the spiders were taken with a 50mm 1.8.

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A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person’s torso. A T-shirt is usually buttonless, collarless, and pocketless, with a round neck and short sleeves. The sleeves of the T-shirt extend at least slightly over the shoulder but not completely over the elbow (in short-sleeve version).

A shirt that is either longer or shorter than this ceases to be a T-shirt. T-shirts are typically made of cotton or polyester fibers (or a mix of the two), knitted together in a jersey stitch that gives a T-shirt its distinctive soft texture. T-shirts can be decorated with text and/or pictures, and are sometimes used to advertise (see human billboard).

T-shirt fashions include styles for men and women, and for all age groups, including baby, youth, and adult sizes.

The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, through cutting the one-piece “union suit” underwear into separate top and bottom garments, with the top long enough to tuck under the waistband of the bottoms. T-shirts, with and without buttons, were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 1800’s as a convenient covering for hot environments.

A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become in American English a catch-all term for almost any upper-body garment other than outerwear such as sweaters, coats, jackets, or undergarments such as bras, vests or base layers. ladieswear. In British English, a shirt is more specifically a garment with a collar, sleeves with cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons. This is known in American English as a “button-up” shirt or dress shirt.

The world’s oldest preserved garment, discovered by Flinders Petrie, is a “highly sophisticated” linen shirt from a First Dynasty Egyptian tomb at Tarkan, ca. 3000B.C. : “the shoulders and sleeves have been finely pleated to give form-fitting trimness while allowing the wearer room to move. The small fringe formed during weaving along one edge of the cloth has been placed by the designer to decorate the neck opening and side seam.”

The shirt was an item of men’s underwear until the twentieth century. Although the woman’s chemise was a closely related garment to the man’s, it is the man’s garment that became the modern shirt. In the Middle Ages it was a plain, undyed garment worn next to the skin and under regular garments. In medieval artworks, the shirt is only visible (uncovered) on humble characters, such as shepherds, prisoners, and penitents. In the seventeenth century men’s shirts were allowed to show, with much the same erotic import as visible underwear today.[ In the eighteenth century, instead of underpants, men "relied on the long tails of shirts … to serve the function of drawers. Eighteenth century costume historian Joseph Strutt believed that men who did not wear shirts to bed were indecent. Even as late as 1879, a visible shirt with nothing over it was considered improper.

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