loose ends

mo’ pixels, mo’ shame

no correlation whatsoever. so please stop coming back.

celebrating loneliness with numbness

media addicted, procrastinating, tech spending, disperse, compulsive, coffee addicted, self distancing, cynical, money avoiding, intimacy fearing, rss comforted, undecided (cryptic), impatient, obsessive, change reluctant, non exercising, bad eating, unwilling, confrontational, angry.

this is the only hapax legomenon i will ever post on loose ends.

is there a word for when you really know someone (through flickr and facebook and jaiku and whatnot) but have never actually met?

so i have a sizable collection of movies to watch, and i recently got an apple tv. faced with two choices, i could either rip the device open, hook up it’s hard disk to my computer, install new codecs and ssh and whatnot and eventually have it run any filetype i threw at it; or i could convert my movies mp4 h.246 and let itunes natively organize them. no option corresponds to the intended use of the device and each required it’s own kind of hassle. i opted for converting my library simply because i can’t be bothered to have to read up on forums and sites every time itunes or the firmware updates – you know, to be sure nothing’s gonna break.

and of course i’m interested in a multitouchy iphone. i’m beyond satisfied with my e61i, and would not trade it’s keyboard for anything in the world, no matter how compelling mobilesafari is. however, the main reason i’m not getting the iphone (even for secondary use) is for all the trouble to make it work where i live. iphonesimfree sure looks good (when it works), and slicing your sim-cards might be a blast – but, again, having to take a gamble every time i download updates is just not for me. unless i change my mind.

[ ] get my social network profiles sort-of up to date.

Ten years ago, there was no digital photography to speak of. You did not call your parents over VOIP. Desktop video editing was inconcievable. Not a shred of user generated content existed. You did not get your news from the web. Your mobile made calls, looked like a brick, and at best sent SMS. High Def was a research experiment and TV frankly looked quite good. International phonecalls were bloody expensive. Going online meant stopping what you were doing. You’d never dream of downloading your favorite TV shows and stream them to your 42” screen wirelessly. Youtube was inconcievable. As was Flickr. There was no such thing as always-on data connections and emailing photos from your phone to anyone. You knew of *a* guy with broadband. Music was invariably something physical. IM was all the rage, but you had fifteen friends on there. No Orkut or Facebook because putting any personal information online was freaky. Searching online meant that you already sort of knew what you were looking for. And you did it once a day. Your 300mb hard disk had a few hundred personal files. You would rarely dare buying anything online, and when you did, it was a big deal. A good half of the technologies you’re using right now had not yet been thought of.

So what do the next ten years hold for us? And then the next? Hold your breath because it’s just getting started.

[written & posted from my phone because I can't sleep]