It's a Pterodactyl...

 

If you said, "A line from a Little Caesar's Pizza commercial in 1988, with the guy in the commercial folding the pizza box in origami-style," you get 50 bonus points.  If you asked, "There's a 'P' at the front of the word 'terodactyl'?" you get an additional 20 bonus points.  I had to look it up; the word spelling, not the commercial.

Stephanie and I still quote that "It's a pterodactyl!" line when folding anything.  Pretty much an inside joke.

Why are we discussing this?  Thanks for asking.  Joan ordered me a case for the new iPad Mini.  I looked at a bunch of different cases online and this one seemed light-weight and folds in a bunch of different configurations to set the iPad at different angles and orientation...

 No, that is not a page from the Kama Sutra - that is instructions on this case/cover/folio (pick the description you prefer) showing the 23 different configurations/angles.  I had to watch a YouTube video to try to figure them all out.  Realistically, you will use 3 or 4.  And some of them are the same configuration, just turned on its side.

But, next day deliver from Amazon, so I had it first thing this morning.

 It is rare that you will buy a device and not need accessories for it.  This case came with a "free" Apple pencil holder that attaches on the side.  I have two Apple pencils for previous iPads... of course, they don't work with this one.  The pencil always seems like a good idea... and then I don't use it... or it falls off the side of the iPad and I misplace it.  Yeah, I probably need one for this iPad.  ;-)

iPads are famous for being "intuitive."  Since I had been using my old one for 14 years, I thought I would just be able to use this new one in the same way.  I am so silly... the one game I play on the old one (Ten-Ten) doesn't exist in the App Store anymore.  There are newer whiz-bang versions that need to be connected to the internet and flash and make noise and make you watch a commercial to continue.  Bite me.  I'll find a new simple game.

I listened to some new podcasts overnight.  Well, they droned on while I slept.  Except they would quit after each episode and I'd have to manually start the next one.  "Put it on Continuous Play," you say?  Yeah, that's where I had it.  Apparently, there is more to it than that.  I tried my Sleep ear buds with the built-in white noise and "scenes"... I picked "SeaSide"... it was wave action sounds, then some new-age annoying chimes every now and then.  I will find something else that is just the background sounds.  Yes, I am an old dog, and these are new tricks.  I guess "simple" isn't a thing anymore.

Oh, and I discovered that "pterodactyl" isn't a thing anymore; it is now a pterosaur or a pterodon or a pterodactylus.  Or, as I like to say, "One of those extinct flying dinosaur things."  Simple.