Technology: Threat or Menace?

[rolanni]

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

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

I mostly use an mp3 player for audiobooks (librivox.org makes public domain versions of public domain books) and podcasts. A podcast is basically a radio show minus the radio station. This sounds stupid, but in reality, is quite nice. The two podcasts I listen to most often are "Coffee Break French", which is devoted to learning French, and "A History of the World in 100 Objects" which was actually a radio show, put on by BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, jointly. And the audiobooks are because quite a lot of classic literature is something that doesn't work for me in print... but if someone reads it to me? MAGIC. I can follow the story then!

I do have some music on my mp3 player, but it isn't necessarily the first thing I'd put on. Many modern phones have mp3 players built in. You don't need an iPod to use a podcast, despite the name.

As far as a "real" iPod... I do have one now and I quite like it. But that's because I have an iPod touch, and it lets me put ebooks on it. If I'm using the thing, chances are I am reading. Including several of your chapbook collections :D. But I got it because my faithful mp3 player of several years killed itself after hours of playing French lessons and history discussion for me. The other pocket computer features a touch offers are not all that important to me.

(I'd probably find the music thing a lot more important if I didn't have the sort of brain that *always* has a soundtrack going... my music mostly gets used to jolt my brain off a soundtrack that was driving me mad)