[This is the first of a multipart post on iTunes]
I have a love-hate relationship with my iPod. I love my iPod, but I hate iTunes. Now, when I say that I love my iPod, I mean it. It’s an absolutely wonderful device. iPods themselves, I only have one problem with them. They tend to be [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
iPod, a Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain, or Why I Hate iTunes, Part I
Student Driver
I’m driving to work the other day. It was one of my late days, and I was taking a freeway I wouldn’t normally take. Normally, I take a different freeway, because on most days, that freeway has too much traffic at 8 in the morning. But on my late days, when I leave at about [...]
CruiseTrek
At work today, an oversized full color magazine appeared in my mailbox. It was published by the company and focused on the people who work there and what they did both inside and outside of work. It was nice, very well produced, full color throughout, even had a couple gate-folded (like Playboy centerfold) pages. It [...]
Sheldon’s Friendship Flowchart
Okay, I love the TV show, Big Bang Theory. On the last episode, Sheldon, the most hyperintelligent and socially inept of the cast, wanted to make a new friend, so he created a friendship flowchart. It looked something like this. Okay, it look a lot like this (I have a program on my work computer [...]
Call the Mayo Clinic
Most of my life, the packaging for condiments has been a jar. Mustard, mayo, relish, it all came in a jar. Some time in the last few years, it was decided that as a convenience these things had to be packaged in squeeze bottle. Brilliant. I can make a sandwich without dirtying up a knife. Hot damn. [...]
DDSmart
So I’m watching TV and a commercial comes on saying something about if you want to lose weight and be more healthy, you should try this new egg white flatbread breakfast sandwich. This new sandwich has less than 300 calories and is brought to you by the good folks at Dunkin Donuts, part of their [...]
Go Ahead, Mow My Lawn
I’m watching TV with my eight-year-old daughter, and a commercial comes on for the new Clint Eastwood movie, Gran Torino. In it, Clint comes out brandishing a rifle at some hoodlums standing in front of him. Then in his best make-my-day voice, he says, “Get off of my lawn.”
My daughter Jasmine says, “Boy, he sure is [...]
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
I took the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. Since the weather was nice I went skateboarding almost everyday. I really need to start getting some exercise and lose some weight, and skateboarding is the one form of exercise that I enjoy. I used to always go to beach to skate, but some time [...]
Calendars, Eureka
For the last I can’t even think of how many years. I’ve had issues with calendars. I’ll try to summarize quickly, since I’ve covered this before. I don’t use a calendar a lot. I just want something to hang on the wall, so I can occasionally write appointments on it and look at it and see what date a week [...]