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With the velocity of a Jamie Moyer fastball, my iPad hit the asphalt, face first.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think much of it, since it had a cover, but when I peeled it back, I was surprised to see that the screen had cracked pretty badly. Most of the damage incurred at the right- top and bottom corners, but at the right angle, light reveals a crack that goes across the center itself.<\/span><\/p>\n Functionality is intact, and from what I can tell, nothing seems to be a dead spot or any spot where touch is no longer detected.\u00a0 And the fact that my screen had a film cover atop of it additionally, there\u2019s only a tiny corner where any remote feel of jagged is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thing is, this folly had happened in the company of other people.\u00a0 I know for a fact that if it had happened while by myself, I probably would have yelled at least one profanity and felt pretty miserable and pissed off.\u00a0 But I certainly didn\u2019t want to be the guy that flipped out over something that was ultimately my own negligent fault, and I have to say that I was kind of surprised with myself at my sheer lack of concern for what was essentially now a dinged-up (once) $400 piece of electronics.<\/span><\/p>\n The presence of people had something to do with my emotional restraint sure, but at the same time I wasn\u2019t really heartbroken, because as much as I like my iPad, I actually had been thinking about switching it up, and pursuing an iPad Mini.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to justify getting a new iPad when I\u2019ve got a perfectly fine conditioned iPad3, but with the ugly crack now tainting it, it\u2019s now suddenly an inadvertent opportunity\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, I\u2019m a little bummed that I jacked up my own iPad, but I realized really, really quickly that it wasn\u2019t a big deal.\u00a0 Yes, they\u2019re like $400 a pop, but when the day was over, it was still just an iPad, something that can be replaced.\u00a0 It was more imperative when it happened, to not be a social buzzkill, and that I realized that the door to the iPad mini I eventually will want, has been opened up a little bit more now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the velocity of a Jamie Moyer fastball, my iPad hit the asphalt, face first.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think much of it, since it had a cover, but when I peeled it back, I was surprised to see that the screen had cracked pretty badly. Most of the damage incurred at the right- top and bottom … Continue reading Part social grace, part opportunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,52,25],"class_list":["post-40007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40009,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40007\/revisions\/40009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}