On the topic of e-readers

I have absolutely no interest in getting one, which is weird because I love gadgets. I understand they're kind of convenient because you don't have to go to a bookstore to get a new book but, meh. Call me Amish but I don't want to have to worry about charging my "books" or syncing it to my computer. I would miss the smell of the page, dog earring a passage I like, and going to the bookstore/library. How will I ever live out my strange fantasy of living in the world of Fahrenheit 451 if we switch to a world of easily delete able books. Also, what will I put on my book shelves to show people I'm not a complete idiot?

In other news "Hey you kids, GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Jeez, I sound old.

(Do you like that picture? I made it in ms paint! Pretty spiffy huh? I'm overly proud of myself because I did it on my shitty work computer)

Social Network Overload!

Does is ever feel like there are just to many damn social networks? At some point it feels like social networking is more like real work. I have accounts with at least 10 that I can think of right now. So when a big company like Apple release a new social network like Ping, it makes me reevaluate which I actually use and want to keep.

With that in mind Ping actually sounds like a good idea, you're able to more easily share the music you like and see what other people are listening to. But there are already service that do pretty similar things like Pandora, Last.fm and Blip.fm. Ping clearly has an advantage over those in that many people already have iTunes, so getting them to sign up is really easy.

At any rate it'll be interesting to see who's still standing in 5 years.