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.)
Julia
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