Need a reason to get on board the iPad bandwagon? Check this out: http://www.apple.com/ipad/apps-for-ipad/#elements

Need a reason to get on board the far-less-popular periodic table of the elements bandwagon? Check this out: http://www.apple.com/ipad/apps-for-ipad/#elements

Both bandwagons are filled with thick-rimmed glasses-wearing tech-savvy twenty-somethings, but one throws cooler parties than the other. The answer to “Which one?” depends on your answer to another question: How do you feel about Dungeons and Dragons?

P.S. – I’m down with the whole lower-case-”i”-before-an existing-word-as-a-name-for-a-product trend Apple is so fond of. Sure, it’ll probably sound really stupid in retrospect when we all tell our children about our iPods and iPhones and what not, but that’s what growing old is all about: sounding stupid to our kids. That and being able to blame all of our eccentricities on “the War.” Fortunately, thanks to our public school systems, our children and grandchildren will be too stupid to know there was no such War in our lifetimes. So, I am cool with the lower case “i.” The iPad, however: not cool. There’s another pad I can think of that women regularly carry around in their bags, and I doubt anyone wants to confuse it with an electronic devise in conversation. Perhaps a non-menstrual affiliation would alleviate just a small measure of the chuckling our progeny will inevitably respond with when we tell them what we used to carry in our pockets, bags and purses respectively. Then again, maybe not. But we can always blame it on the War.