Word: train
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...what you can do with the iPad. You can pick it up. You can rest it in your lap. You can pass it around. You can leave it on a coffee table. You can tuck it in a bag. You can one-hand it while reading on a train. (See the best travel gadgets...
...would pant excitedly. Douglas' wife Jane would point with resigned amusement to the stairs, and I would hurl myself up them to swap files and play. We were like children with toy train sets. And that was part of the problem. It was such fun. Computing was not supposed to be fun. Douglas and I once spent two weeks redesigning our desktop icons and then asked Jane to judge the winner. She tactfully awarded us each first prize. We would have sulked for weeks otherwise. But we both wrote books and scripts on our Macs too; it was the first...
Take as a metaphor a train stringing together 16 engines; these are the members of the Eurozone. Each has to steam along at the same speed. If any or several of the 16 engineers throw too much coal into the boiler by way of excessive government spending, the train will derail. That's grade-school physics...
Then my solo arrived, my very own Soul Train moment. Harvard parties had not prepared me well for this—there was no girl’s bottom to hide behind...
After a few improv games, we finished off by taking turns in a Soul Train, suddenly filling an ordinary church basement with “Funky Chickens,” “Shopping Trolleys,” and dance moves unlike anything that I could respectfully name...