At 04:23 PM Friday 12/1/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
One of my antidotes to the problem you describe (put text before
you and you read it) is my Blackberry, where I can use the browser
to bring up The Onion or archived New Yorker articles (or whatever)
and read them instead of whatever is demanding my attention while I wait.
Hm. I need to start putting things on my PDA for that, then.
And I know just the thing, if it doesn't exceed the allowed file
size for memos....
I don't know jack-sh*t about Britney or Lindsay Lohan or TomKat or
any of the other dozen or two bunch of idiots the Big Media
Conglomerates insist are interesting.
My biggest problem recently was when too many of my fairly sane
bloggers all told me about the demise of a particular marriage. To
be fair, they were doing it to criticize Big Media, by leading with
that and not getting to anything REAL until later, or putting the
REAL stuff in another post entirely.
And if I never see a name abbreviated as [first initial]-[first
syllable of last name] again, it will still be too soon. :P
PS: I have even stopped listening to NPR in the car -- on balance,
it's too much "cacaphony" for me, despite its fine moments.
Instead, I'm now listening to Audiobooks, which I get via Simply
Audiobooks, which is a kind of Netflix for audiobooks. Right now,
I'm listening to Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink: The Power of Thinking
Without Thinking". I told my 9-year-old about it, and we've stopped
listening to a 9-disc set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and are
listening to Gladwell instead. It's cool that Ryan is so interested
in how the mind works.
1) CDs we've burned ourselves.
2) KMFA (Austin classical station)
3) Bob FM. ( http://www.hibob.fm/ )
I can't handle audiobooks in the car. Not sure why, but that's how
my brain is.
Out of the car, I've got my own music collection, and if the TV is
on, the default channel is the Light Classical music channel. I
can't handle most of the other music channels for very long most
times. And we're careful about selecting videos for our
kids. (Wallace & Gromit are at the top of Tommy's hit parade right now.)
Does he refer to them as WalGrom or GroWall?
-- Ronn! :)
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