“Other Lessons Learned”

I just got that New Apple Watch 4 weeks early! #dontbelievemejustwatch #nowthatsludicrous

A photo posted by @ludacris on Mar 17, 2015 at 1:11pm PDT

Recently the ten-year-old in me was delighted to discover this fact:

The computers NASA uses now for missions are much smaller and more powerful than the computers used for Apollo missions. Your cell phone has more computing power than the computers used during the Apollo era.

Ha, I thought to myself childishly, an actual rocket in our pockets.

I suppose if we were to take this analogy further the Apple Watches shipping out today (pictured above) are an actual rocket on our wrists, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it or the same immature sexual allusions, so, pass.

Anyway here’s a story about a young woman who did a reasonable thing to a bad boyfriend. “Men, watch your rockets” etc.

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