Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!

Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 10:59:28 am PST #921 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there's all the fiddling and playlists and blah blah

There's no mandatory fiddling, honest. I fiddle and playlist because I like the idea of playing all the LotR soundtracks in one shot, in sequence, or having all the 80s music I like in rotation for a whole week.

But you don't have to. You can play by album just like before, or by artist or genre without playlisting or fiddling at all.

50% of the conversations I've overheard between strangers today have been about the not!suicide. One of them seemed to be between lawyers who will be working on the case. Not sure in what capacity -- them talking about the company's exposure in the case made me think that Metrolink might be their client.


Jessica - Jan 26, 2005 11:00:39 am PST #922 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Apparantly New York is the best/fastest at cleaning up the mess and resuming normal subway service - I've heard it takes them about an hour.

Just as long as nobody sets fire to our only A-train control room, we're good.

Aga stoves. Want.


sarameg - Jan 26, 2005 11:01:21 am PST #923 of 10002

Also -- I don't get how they're a lot of work.

You are talking to someone who doesn't play many of her cds because that would involve turning on the cd player, switching the non-remoted tuner to the cd channel thing, putting in or taking out cds and finding the remote. I am lazy, hear me snore.

There is not a cd burner in the house (unless...well, no, I don't think my laptop has one.)

The ipod in theory would make it possible to avoid such. But it would never get set up.

Instead, I listen to a lot of radio. Or nothing.


Steph L. - Jan 26, 2005 11:02:12 am PST #924 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

There's no mandatory fiddling, honest.

Anyone else picturing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"?

....just me, then.


Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 11:02:18 am PST #925 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

There's no mandatory fiddling, honest.

But I figure that's a big reason why you'd (one would) have one. I mean, I can just play CDs. I get the convenience thing of being able to carry all your music around, but I'm not a person who carries around 10 CDs anyway. Or even one CD, usually.


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 11:03:06 am PST #926 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, if you don't ever play CDs, you can buy an iPod and never use it -- no more work than before, no more music. So you'd be good.


sarameg - Jan 26, 2005 11:04:14 am PST #927 of 10002

Cat toy!


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 11:04:53 am PST #928 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But I figure that's a big reason why you'd (one would) have one

It's big for me. But I may have OCD tendencies. However, just being able to have all my music with me (in car, plane, gym, doctor's office) and being only a skosh away from any album or song -- that'd be worth it anyway. The OCD stuff is gravy.

Cat toy!

And if you get an iSkin, they're good for teething toys too.


Kat - Jan 26, 2005 11:07:08 am PST #929 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita's explanation is cracking me up.

There's less fiddling than you'd imagine. I like having all my music with me and I love having it play randomly, which is pretty fiddle free.

Narrator, yes, that's where both Allyson and lori work. It's the second book on JPL that I've seen or heard about recently.


aurelia - Jan 26, 2005 11:07:24 am PST #930 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

By the way, I have a Rio MP3 player that I don't use at all. Don't know what the memory is, probably smallish. Free to a good home if someone wants it.

Really? Are those compatible with iTunes/Mac? I covet an iPod, but it's a bit out of my price range at the moment.