iPads aren’t just for cats, they’re for moms too.
Every email I’ve received from my mother in the past month now has the addendum “sent from my iPad”, something that I view with increasing distress. As I so often do, I was recently bemoaning how much time I spend on the computer, and how I feel like my right hand is permanently transforming itself into a disfigured claw from my overuse of a laptop mixed with poor posture. This person replied “well hopefully someday everything will be touch screen like an iPad and we won’t have that problem anymore”. Maybe that will help, but I feel like instead I’ll get tennis elbow. Anyway, we’ll probably run out of the rare earth minerals we need to build these things soon.
I hate digital technologies. I love analog technologies that produce physical artifacts that are independent of the device used to create them. I recently got my hands on a Marantz cassette recorder and have gone a little crazy with it. I’ve made over 400 minutes of cassette recordings, and that’s not even counting mixes. I love it!
It automatically shuts off when the counter reaches 199 and 299. This, apparently, is a common glitch with these devices. I have heard rumors that cassettes are cool again. Although, when I ask my friends if they can listen to cassettes (still my preferred method for making mixes for people) they often say “no”. It’s a shame, because I have always put more care into making cassettes for people than CDs. Like any other physical format, it forces you to pay more attention to it. And since I’m lazy and prone to shortcuts, I find that valuable.
