When I was a DJ on my college station a couple years back, I bought an iPod so that I didn't have to drag my records and CD's all the way down to the university on my bike. I ran my show off of my little box of rock, and damn it, the thing has taken a severe beating and keeps on ticking. You definately get your moneys worth when you buy an iPod.
The reason why I bought an iPod over any other player?
Because I didn't really care, and when I went to buy an MP3 player, the only thing I could find was an iPod. If stores will only stock iPod, there must be something to it. I dunno.
The attitude of "books will be obsolete in the future" disturbs me.
Reading the news on the internet works, because it takes so little time, and you can generally sit at your desk or whatever and eat something while you cruise through absolute-up-to-the-minute-real-time world events.
Reading books on the internet? On cell phones and PDAs and iPods and whatever portable device you like? A book is a big thing, and I hope I am not alone when I say that reading off of a screen for too long gives me terrible, terrible headaches. What's so wrong with a book? They fit into your pocket. They are cheap (if you hit up the local used bookstore). They can be written on. They can be given to others to read. And they require no electricity, no machines, no batteries, nothing. How come books are suddenly old hat?
Maybe wanting to read books made with dead trees makes me a luddite. How depressing.
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When do I get to start playing God from the comfort of my own home?
....but I read that you have to be no taller than 6'1".
Profound is my dissapointment.
When I was a DJ on my college station a couple years back, I bought an iPod so that I didn't have to drag my records and CD's all the way down to the university on my bike. I ran my show off of my little box of rock, and damn it, the thing has taken a severe beating and keeps on ticking. You definately get your moneys worth when you buy an iPod.
The reason why I bought an iPod over any other player?
Because I didn't really care, and when I went to buy an MP3 player, the only thing I could find was an iPod. If stores will only stock iPod, there must be something to it. I dunno.
The attitude of "books will be obsolete in the future" disturbs me.
Reading the news on the internet works, because it takes so little time, and you can generally sit at your desk or whatever and eat something while you cruise through absolute-up-to-the-minute-real-time world events.
Reading books on the internet? On cell phones and PDAs and iPods and whatever portable device you like? A book is a big thing, and I hope I am not alone when I say that reading off of a screen for too long gives me terrible, terrible headaches. What's so wrong with a book? They fit into your pocket. They are cheap (if you hit up the local used bookstore). They can be written on. They can be given to others to read. And they require no electricity, no machines, no batteries, nothing. How come books are suddenly old hat?
Maybe wanting to read books made with dead trees makes me a luddite. How depressing.