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What I repeatedly find I cannot express, when I launch my verbal shards of that day into the air, in such poor imitation of my grandmother, is what I really mean to, the core of what I want to say about the moment.
When I launch a phone-in that asks: "How often should you wash your towels?" or "How long can a dog stand on its hind legs?", it's as likely to be enjoyed by a housewife in Hemsby as it is by a factory owner in Guangzhou or a weaver high (or low) in the Andes.
This is the part when I launch into a rant about how the elevation of a gadget whose function is to cut its wearer off from the rest of society to the top of our wish lists is a symptom of all that is wrong with the modern world; about how wrong it is to fetishise and glamorise a product that turns us all into Matt Damon in The Martian, going slowly insane in futuristic isolation.
I install a popular, well-funded application like Instagram, Flickr or Circa on my iPad, but when I launch it, three-fourths of the screen is black bars, with a teensy little app in the middle.
That is, if I'm reading the Wikipedia entry on, say, WrestleMania 10 on my desktop, that same Web page will be displayed when I launch the mobile version of the browser.
But not even the swans are perturbed when I launch myself at them.
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But I was about 30 when I launched my own first company.
Then I used those relationships to sponsor my league when I launched my league.
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