May 2010
5 posts
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Being Played Out Live On...
My first reaction to this: awesome sauce!
My second reaction: a bit of melancholy.
Simply because times have changed. I guess I’ve gotten old. It happened without my knowing it. But when I imagine Ferris Bueller in our age, with our technological “tools,” it makes me miss the old days; days where you actually had to hang out with people if you wanted to talk with them, days...
Breakaway: Avoid awkward music slip ups
So you’re sitting in the coffee shop, surfing the web with trained skill, white Apple headphones trailing from the headphone port of your MacBook Pro, rocking the Rocky 4 soundtrack. You’re oblivious to all those around you, as they are to you. You go to take a sip of your Shot in the Dark, and you accidentally pull on the headphone cord.
Out pops the cord from your computer. And...
Theaters now paid to play even more trailers
In the not so near future:
Phone ringing.
Joe: Hello?
Bud: Hey man, you want to go see a movie tonight?
Joe: Sure man. How bout Clash of the Titans?
Bud: (in his best Liam Neeson voice): Release the Kraken!!!!! So, what time does the movie start?
Joe: Um, it says 7:15.
Bud: No, man, what time does the movie actually start?
Joe: Huh?
Bud: Well, first you got about ten trailers. Then the lights dim, and you think it's movie time, right? But then the commercials go. M&M's, red and green for Christmas.
Joe: Wow.
Bud: And I haven't even gotten to the dancing condiments.
Joe: So, what time do you think?
Bud: 9:30 should give us plenty of time.
Joe: Whoah.
MobileMe (and its associated grievances)
MobileMe sounds great at first blush. Complete synchronization of all your contacts, calendar entries, emails, bookmarks, etc…all done automatically, all done behind the scenes.
Then the problems start.
If you have MobileMe, chances are you’ve seen the sync warning a time or two (or twenty).