Spa Nordic Station; the Android experience

SPA NORDIC STATION in MAGOG
I've discovered a new world. For the first time in perhaps years I've managed to phase out what's running in my head, without having to do some inane activity like playing Minecraft with the kids or cleaning up.

I went to a Spa.

Suzanne and I went to Nordic Spa today where we had a most pleasant experience. I never thought that spending 15 minutes in a very hot place, then dipping yourself in a very cold place, relaxing for 15 minutes, then repeat the cycle over and over again would make me phase out but it did. I was in pure relax mode, with nary a thought.

And that total body massage... Wow!

Thanks Kim for introducing Suzanne to it, and Donna to tell me that real men actually go to these places, and for Sylvain (Donna's husband and a great guy) to actually go. His words to me were simply: "Enjoy."

And we did.

ANDROID a few days before the iPhone announcement seven years ago.
Seven years ago yesterday Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world.

Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone...are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone

Too many of my Android friends keep annoyingly telling me stuff like "Your crappy iPhone" or "Oh, I'm glad Apple copied this from our phone." Now I don't really care about other people's phone that much (though to be honest just the fact that most of my Android friends need to change their phone once a year is not a great testament on how great their phones are; I still absolutely love mine after 1.4 years) but please stop annoying me with how great your phone is, because it isn't. It wouldn't even be had the iPhone not been created, you wouldn't have a phone. Case in point, from an Android engineer:

Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’” [...] 
“What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.”

Here's what the Android phone looked days before the iPhone announcement: