I think I'm just going to go straight into my thoughts this time 'round. Except for this little blurb here at the top explaining how I'm going straight into my thoughts. Ya. Besides that I'm going straight into my thoughts. So, without further delay, my thoughts.

I was thinking about my post from last night. Amazing how I'm not 100% remembering everything that I wrote yesterday, since it's only been 24 hours. I know it was largely about the "iPad" and the many reasons I won't be buying it.

But it also occurred to me at some point else this could be turned into. Or some other similar device if not the iPad. What I have in mind is some kind of integrated dock, similar to the dock for the Motorola Droid but with the added benefit of component video outputs. At that point you could pair it with any number of devices including a game pad.

Actually I was thinking about this in the context of the iPad but was dismissing it in my own thoughts on account of all those buttons required for a game pad. Then in occurred me there are already all those iPhones and iPod touches floating around, so the only real task would be some how pairing the iPhone/iPod to the iPad and then you had a touchscreen-based gamepad already available. 

In other words it's a highly portable game console. Or with the right sort of docking features I suppose it could be a DVR or any number of things.

Alright so I just bothered to actually look up information on my own blog and yes and did write about the idea of connecting the device to the TV and using iPod/iPhone as the game pad. Some times I have really intense thoughts for an extended period of time and I can't remember if I wrote it or if I merely thought about it really, really hard.

Actually there will eventually be Android-based tablets with the "Tegra" graphics chipset and there's already touch-based devices like the Droid and NexusOne out there so something like this really could be rigged up. I mean it would have to use some kind of wireless technology like Bluetooth or similar but this really could be rigged up. I have no idea of course if a controller with no sort of tactile feedback wold actually work. I guess people would adapt to it eventually the same way people have adjusted to first person shooters with game pads.

I was some-what proud of myself today in that I did actual jogging for a large portion of the five mile route I enjoy taking so much. I also did some extensive stretching before the jog. I think you're actually supposed to do all the stretching after the jog not before. I think it helped though.

Tomorrow, assuming I can get a decent amount of sleep, I am planning on going down the flea market. Seems early in the year I know for thinking about flea markets. But it's supposed to 62 or so degrees tomorrow. That's right, while pretty much the whole of the rest of the country has lots of cold and record snow fall it's going to be in the low 60s where I am. I don't know what I'll look for. Maybe I'll finally buy an SNES after all this time. I mean I bought a multi-tap-like peripheral, several game pads and Bomberman II several years ago. I just never bought an SNES to actually play it on. Not one that worked anyway. Never willing to spend the $40 or $50 on a 20 year old console I guess. It's kind of funny really. There's consoles like the Dreamcast that sell for about the same price at flee markets as the SNES. And there's Genesis consoles in stacks going for super-cheap. But the SNES has been a very consistent $40 to $50 for like ten years now. With so far as I know little to no chance of decreasing in the near future.

Other than that I can't think of anything I would like to buy. Perhaps I'll just see something I can't live without and buy that tomorrow. Just have to see what they have.

The other decision of course is whether I will go for another five mile jog/walk tomorrow. Maybe that's a big excessive doing that two days in a row, maybe the old bones can handle it. From there it would before or after. I think since the whole thing has kind of started to wind down noon I would probably do the jog after the flea market. Well that's pretty much the whole day isn't it. I will have to go back into my PHP book and learn more WordPress.

In fact I'm writing today's entry while sitting in a Border's with a couple of WP books beside me. I can't quite decide which one I would like to buy. They're both fairly highly regarded by the readers of Amazon and they're both relatively recent. One is a "24 hour trainer" so it's obviously a beginning-to-end type of deal while the other is a "cook book" so there's more of a bite-sized how to do certain tasks.  Of course there's probably an even more up to date web site out there with all the information I'll ever need that would be much better.

Alright so I just looked up the current iPad information: there's no 720p video output but fairly close to that. There's already a dock for connecting it and there is in fact bluetooth. Whether or not the iPad could be some how connect to the iPad is still an unknown detail to me but at least I'm learning some stuff here.

I think it's dinner time so I'm going to publish this now and go home.