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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.


sumi - Mar 06, 2008 7:54:17 pm PST #3419 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I was getting ready for bed when I suddenly realized that all the alarms I was hearing were, you know, right here.

Lots of flashing lights, that sort of thing.

I look out my window and there are like 3 cop cars blocking the street. Couldn't figure out what was what - then I noticed scads of smoke coming from a house across and down the street from me.

Lots of firetrucks parked up the street. (One of them a hook and ladder that is now right in front of my building.)


sumi - Mar 06, 2008 7:57:45 pm PST #3420 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Stepped out front and it's the house right nextdoor to where my friend L lives!


bon bon - Mar 06, 2008 8:04:57 pm PST #3421 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I have a hard time being precise with the touch wheel. And I would kill for a normal volume button so I didn't have to wait for it to "go back" to the song to access the volume.

Yes. Steve Jobs' whole "one button" thing is ludicrous.


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:05:46 pm PST #3422 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Its so nice that it wants to do things automatically for me. Really. But it needs to hush up and let me do what I want.


§ ita § - Mar 06, 2008 8:09:05 pm PST #3423 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Steve Jobs' whole "one button" thing is ludicrous.

I don't think the iPod succeeded despite that sort of thing--I think the simplicity was part of the win.


Consuela - Mar 06, 2008 8:11:25 pm PST #3424 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I admit that normal use of my iPod is okay, but there are definitely some problems with the audiobooks. Every once in a while it just loses its place and goes back to the beginning of the enormous file. Argh.


bon bon - Mar 06, 2008 8:14:30 pm PST #3425 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't think the iPod succeeded despite that sort of thing--I think the simplicity was part of the win.

yes, it's all very cute and sexy, until you use it, and by the time you realize how annoying it is you're locked into iTunes.


megan walker - Mar 06, 2008 8:16:26 pm PST #3426 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Its so nice that it wants to do things automatically for me. Really. But it needs to hush up and let me do what I want.

It's like Microsoft Word that way.


Trudy Booth - Mar 06, 2008 8:21:44 pm PST #3427 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

It's like Microsoft Word that way.

It sure as fuck is.


§ ita § - Mar 06, 2008 8:23:08 pm PST #3428 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it's all very cute and sexy, until you use it, and by the time you realize how annoying it is you're locked into iTunes.

I have interface problems, but that's because they kept changing the bits I'd gotten down pat. I think that the functionality is pretty well matched with the complexity of thte interface--there's some extra stuff I might want it to do, but there's no way I can think of without adding more buttons, and I don't wanna.

And you're not locked into iTunes. If you want out and have a CD burner you don't even need to download cheating software.

I'm actually curious about iTunes competitors--the ones I've used have been horrible. I was a paid up MMJB user, and really balked at iTunes, but it ended up being much less messy. Various other music software came with phones or PDAs, but still ugly.

Does anyone have a Zune? What does its software look like?