The Wake

It finally happened. Steve Jobs and Co. have fallen from their mighty tower of hip. After months of buzz surrounding Apple’s new product, the much anticipated iPad was released to the sounds of bad puns and nervous laughter rather than the obligatory cash register ka-chings that one would expect from the prodigious technology provider of recent years.

Yes, the moniker attached to Apple’s sleek new life-enhancing gadget is an easy target for the internet hive …

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Frosted tree tips just outside the city, products of last night’s sleet barrage, greet me on yet another beautiful Minneapolis morning. Except this time, the frozen white fingertips of the tree line, stretching heavenward, are ushering me out of the metropolis and into the great northern realms of the state. Besides being drenched in freezing rain the prior evening, Minneapolis experienced a different blow of the cold kind—another talented young band forced to hang up …

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