if all I have is an iPad, I can write lots of potentially interesting software for it.  They <i>are</i> still programmable, after all.<p>That said, the fact that you seem to think that cooking meals, gardening, woodworking, and appliance repair are also impossible indicates to me that you're not really railing about the iPad.<p>These are great days to tinker.  Just a slightly different kind of tinkering, is all.