Technology: Threat or Menace?

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So, who wants to explain to me what, exactly, an IPod is and why “it’s essential” that I have one?

In other news, the deck is roofed; the crew boss is due back on Monday (or Tuesday, or “early in the week”) to measure for the back-splash and install the pesky mini-blinds that refuse to acknowledge my dominion over themselves.  I think we’ll hold off on the ceiling fan; the installation sounds like too much wear-and-tear on everyone at this point.

The house is very slowly coming back into something resembling coherence.  I’m trying to sort out books, music, and knick-knacks that no longer give pleasure rather than mindlessly tossing things back where they were.  This?  Is harder than you might think.

And, yes — we are still working on Dragon Tide, which as some astute readers have noticed, is late.  Our fault entirely, for not completely grokking how much the new order of bidness would affect the old order of bidness.  We have kindly received an extension from Madame the Editor.  And I’m busy cutting-and-pasting, foreshadowing, and laying in the subplot(s).  This?  Is also harder than you might think.

So, in a few minutes, I’m off to the Word Mines.

What’re you doing today that’s fun?

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

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If you have an iPhone, you don't need an iPod Touch (you have a superset of its functions), and if you have an iPod Touch you don't need a regular iPod except for driving[1] because ditto.

By the time you get up to the iPad ... it started life as a bloated iPod touch, but it's now a de facto new type of computing platform, as different from regular PCs/Macs of today as a Mac was from a PC back in 1985. And about as mature as a 1985 Mac[2].

I wuv my iPhone 4. Seriously, if the screen was just a little bit bigger I'd do everything with it. Just my luck that it didn't become available until I was succumbing to middle-aged eyeballs.



[1] I keep my old click-wheel hard disk iPod simply because I get tactile feedback from the play/pause/stop/forward/backward buttons, so I can use it via a cassette interface in my (ancient) car without having to look at a touchscreen.

[2] The seeds of future success and ubiquity are visible in the iPad today, but it's still rather limited.