On Tuesday 25 August 2009 02:43 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > However did we survive in the eras of CDs, cassette tapes, 8-track > tapes, transistor radios, or before?
We also survived in the days before email, yet here you are. > > Or as I've mentioned, if you for instance get talking to someone about > > a band from two decades ago that you have a half dozen albums of... > > sitting at home on the computer! > That just doesn't happen too often. I recommend music to people on a pretty regular basis. Of course, I don't carry my Archos around much because it's failing, but since about a month ago, if I want to badly enough, I can ssh home from my phone and send a file to someone. It's a lot more awkward than just playing the song, though, so I need to come up with some kind of UPnP over ssh tunnel, or just roll my own player on the Pre. > (For me, though, R&R is about youth, which I left far behind long > ago. I'm just not music-obsessed anymore (and I think that people > constantly walking around with buds stuck in their ears is > destructive to society). For me it's never been about rock and roll, except for that one band I was in 20+ years ago and this one guy I jam with once in a while. But luckily the other 90% of music doesn't require you to throw the horns. And earbuds are awful. I made the mistake of mastering a demo on earbuds once, and 7 years later I still haven't been able to fix it. I understand about outgrowing things; in my early 20s I worked in a big corporate environment, drank a lot of coffee and read the Wall Street Journal before and after work for pleasure before going home to install Linux off of 41 floppies or compile a kernel or something. For the last 13 years, though, all that excitement is gone. Well, I still do Linux installs, but now it's Ubuntu so a chimp could do it, and somewhere out there, one probably does. Rob _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
