As you know, school starts the day after Labor Day. (If you like or hate that, click here and scroll down a bit to vote in the poll.)

On Monday, I went to a school meeting at which Michael picked up his school-issued iPad. Platteville seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students are getting them in the first year of a program that probably will eventually see all students getting them.

One of the things iPads apparently can do is take photos. So can most laptops and cellphones. (But you knew that already.) But apparently iPads can take different kinds of photos. So for those who care (and you care because you’re reading this, right? Right? Hello?), this is what I look like with his iPad’s thermal imaging camera:

(In the background, by the way, is his bike. Actually, it’s my bike. I won it in a raffle. However, to no parent’s surprise, I never get to ride it.)

And this is supposed to be an example of the iPad’s X-ray camera capabilities …

… which brings to mind the days when David Letterman was funny, and he’d stare at the camera and say, “Hep me! I been HIP-mo-tized.”

I wonder if anyone would notice one of these in print.