I'm convinced that the applications coming out for the iPhone are going to change the face of mobile computing forever. There are numerous tools already available that are productive, time saving, efficiency maximizing godsends. And there are usless gadgets and do-dads as well. After all, all work and no play.....
One of the apps in the latter category is an incredibly simple little drawing product that lets you scribble lines in four choices of color. It is right up there next to "iBeer" in the useless hall of fame. But with kids, useless is relative. So I installed it.
This morning, over breakfast, I took it out for them to both tinker with. When doing so, I showed them how it work by selecting the blue color and drawing a smear down the left side of the screen. I followed with a yellow one in the middle, and red on the right. Primary colors.
It took only a moment before I recognized something strangely familiar, and a moment or two later for the connection to be made. I drew the colors from the cover of Synchronicity. At least, it was close enough to trigger the weak sparking of some random, dusty brain cells, forming a connection from subconscious to consious thought.
I wish I'd remember more critical things over these little tidbits, but it seems my mind holds on to inconsequential details with the same randomness as it does the important stuff.
