3.05.08

Category: dribblings

is anyone tired of me talking about my Abraham Lincoln addction? you are?

well tough tea bags. my nerdness knows no bounds. do you KNOW what i FOUND the other DAY on iTunes?! capital O, capital M, capital G.

iTunes U. eeeeeeee! i found it by accident. i was actually searching for audiobooks about Lincoln, and i ran across these college lectures. oh sweet treasure of nerd! so today while i painted i listened to some pretty good lectures, two on Lincoln (one was Doris Kearns Goodwin talking about her book Team of Rivals, which was a serendipitous find because i’m reading that book right now. did she write this one? hee, that’s bad.) (i’m not actually a fan of Mrs. Goodwin, and her voice was borderline annoying, but she’s a huge baseball nerd… and i suppose that gets points.) and one was on John Brown. and? best part of all? THEY WERE FREE. DO YOU HEAR THAT, AMERICAN HISTORY NERDS? FREE.

my incredibly small ipod shuffle was all, “no, please! let’s listen to something fun! i’ll play the pixies! i promise! we’ll have fun! i can play all your favorite songs!”

speaking of the tiny of tinies: mr. fleegan gave me an ipod shuffle for Christmas. it’s small and green. i had a regular ipod (it was an old one, no color or video… just songs.) but it bit the dust over a year ago and i never replaced it. i wasn’t sure if i’d like the shuffle cos you can’t see a list of the songs… so you can’t choose what song to play next. but i have found that (after making a playlist of songs that do not piss me off) i can totally live without a screen. i love how small it is, and it’s clip is awesome.

the only thing that pisses me off about it is i look at it and it’s so small and so light that i can hardly believe that it even does anything at all. and then? it works. it plays songs or audiobooks etc. and i marvel. and then i’m pissed because if we can make a tiny machine that weighs NOTHING and actually does SOMETHING… then how come we can’t cure diabetes or crohn’s disease, or end war?
i have a machine that is slightly bigger than a quarter; it currently holds one book (five hours long), and six lectures (about 40 minutes each) and probably some songs i haven’t run across yet. we have this amazing technology and for SOME DAMN REASON milk is $3 a gallon. don’t get me started on the price of eggs and gas.

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