A young entrepreneur says to his partner, "Here's my big idea for a new green-friendly company: we take old business cards, fold them, and sell them as disposable toothpicks!"
Rolling her eyes at such a silly transformation, the partner replies, "But toothpicks are already disposable."
If you want to talk about true spiritual transformation, I preached recently a sermon called "Transformers." It's all about the pull between God and art. You can listen to the Transformers sermon here.
The title of the above comic speaks jokingly of innovation. However, readers of this site might be aware that I try a lot of hopefully innovative and different gadgets to draw webcomics on and am quite pleased with my current find, the HP iPAQ 211 Enterprise Handheld (also known as a Pocket PC). Here is my iPAQ review after one month of heavy usage:
HP iPAQ 211 Pocket PC Review
Despite the fact that this tough-looking black gadget has been out since January 2008, the HP iPAQ 211 is quite an awesome device and even still formidable among the latest devices out now. Long battery life, a massive 4 inch screen and solid build are some of its stand-out features. I use this Pocket PC for managing contacts, calendar, drawing webcomics (Pocket Artist as well as Vectorsoft Draw), writing documents, reading the Bible (Laridian Pocket Bible), listening to music and browsing the Internet via WiFi. Maggot Attack Pinball also plays great on this large screen portable device.
The two things to keep in mind, though, are...
1) It's not a phone. This is actually a plus for me, given that battery life of most Pocket PC Phones don't really last the whole day if you use all the features. However, with my cheap Cricket phone and an iPAQ Pocket PC, both devices can go multiple days without a recharge.
2) There is about a 2 second delay between when you press the power-on button and when it actually comes on. That's no big deal though. I just got into the habit of pressing the button and then getting the stylus out. By the time the stylus is ready in my hand, the device is powered on. So again, no problem.
This is not a device for people who feel the need to constantly live in the cloud. But for workers who want to develop ideas (writers and artists) as well as people who want to read and listen to media offline as well as sporadically online, it is a most excellent choice.
Webcomic drawn by Joe Chiappetta 2009 on HP iPAQ Pocket PC running Windows Mobile, in Conduits Pocket Artist program.
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