[IxDA Discuss] Back to Basics

A S aschechterman at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 13:49:09 PDT 2007


All, FWIW, had the chance to briefly test drive this tablet (below) . . .
very nice. But if Apple is truly going to unveil their own tablet in 2007
(rumors, rumors), I'd be inclined to wait for that one.  - Andrew
Schechterman, Ph.D.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/10/modbook/index.php.

On 3/23/07, Nasir Barday <nasir at userlicious.com> wrote:
>
> Cathartic indeed :). Though I use tea and rely on the built-in eraser
> (thanks to my 2nd-grade teacher, Mrs. Bradford, for showing us how to
> "clean" our erasers to keep them from making icky smudges).
>
> I'll probably become a Mac user when Apple comes out with a tablet. I
> do still like the physical interaction of graphite/ink on paper--
> there's something satisfying about the friction that
> plastic-on-plastic action can't quite match. In the mean time, I do
> non-web stuff, and projects are all over the place, so I'm stocking my
> toolchest with blank paper, and two #2 pencils, one dull and one
> sharp. Mechanicals, for me, are too hard to erase and I break the lead
> too easily.  I think I decided that in 8th grade. I'm pretty sure I'm
> an edge case ...
>
> I took a chance and showed my drawings in a meeting, and no one seemed
> to mind the graphite-lines-on-color-screenshot look. Score! This
> company really has come around over the past few years... *proud*.
>
> I learned everything I need to know about design in Middle School :).
> - Nasir
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