April 6, 2010
Notes

Thank God for the iPad!

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Jason Saucier leaves after being the first customer to buy the iPad at the Apple Store at West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on April 3, 2010. Customer's lined up in the mall to purchase Apple's much-anticipated iPad that went on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday in each time zone.       AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Jason Saucier leaves after being the first customer to buy the iPad at the Apple Store at West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on April 3, 2010. Customer’s lined up in the mall to purchase Apple’s much-anticipated iPad that went on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday in each time zone. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Apologies to Cecil B. DeMille, but… holy Moses, the day finally arrived!

Looking at all the wire photos of people holding aloft their iPads while exiting the Apple store, or cradling one in each hand as above, I’m just wondering if anybody got the biblical hit that I did?

(photo 1: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. caption: Jason Saucier leaves after being the first customer to buy the iPad at the Apple Store at West Farms Mall in Farmington, Connecticut, on April 3, 2010. Customer’s lined up in the mall to purchase Apple’s much-anticipated iPad that went on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday in each time zone. photo 2: Charleton Heston in The Ten Commandments. 1956. Motion Picture Associates.)

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