I think that it takes some heightened level of contentness and relaxation to allow your iPod to play continually on shuffle. I’m almost there – I still skip a lot of songs, but at least I’m better than I previously was about saying, “I’m sick of randomness, I just want to listen to a coherent album rather than a parade of songs.”
Is it creepy to find and/or read the blogs of acquaintances who are not necessarily in the “friend zone”? A lot of people @ TU blog, and I happen to RSS subscribe to many of them. Many of these people are my friends, but some are only acquaintances (aka we’re facebook friends, ha). I suppose that by blogging, you implicitly agree that these sorts of things are okay. I know that I am okay with it and even would welcome feedback from such friends/acquaintances.
This is sort of a procrastinatory blog – I’m working on a paper rough draft.
This morning, Amanda described the pastor’s trousers as “emergent pants”.
If you live reasonably close to Indianapolis, you should go to the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s performance of “A Christmas Carol” sometime this Christmas season. It’s well done and unique; I’ve seen it twice this decade and loved it both times. Oh, and there’s plenty of tasty places to eat in downtown Indy after the show, too.
Because Woot! is awesome, Amanda and I will each be receiving a Hue HD webcam ($100 value, purchased for $20 each) at some point during the coming week. This will make communication immeasurably easier while she’s in Ireland this spring (ps – I’m jealous of her). [note: Hue HD's website seems to be down right now]
Friends often enforce the idea that I have a broad vocabulary, but sometimes, I surprise myself with my inability to spell/use the right homonym.
“Christmas Time is Here (Instrumental)” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio off of the Peanuts Christmas Special album just came on during shuffle; I almost forgot to skip it. By the way, if you own 1 Christmas CD, that should be it.
I want to write a memoir, even if no one would read it or find it interesting.
This is the sound of Dauthan ending this post before he gets around to saying too much.
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I read your blog and it may or may not be creepy on my part but in my opinion, you can read blogs to your heart’s content.
In response to your “iTunes shuffle” paragraph: have you not discovered iTunes genius? It literally works at genius level providing exactly the right mood every single time.
That was a ridiculous post. You say you don’t like shuffle because it is too random? Does that mean you don’t like your blog?
Blogs = public. Read away.
“Emerging pants”? Maybe they should wear suspenders to really embrace the ancient-future faith.
This blog post is really on shuffle too. I enjoy it. Great story Dauthan.
Josiah, I also read your blog; I believe the fact that, as CWillZ said, blogs are public means that we’re justified and not creepy, and the fact that I read the blog of each of the three people above me AND they read mine actually means we’ve got a little community going on.
I’ve only used Genius sparingly, Josiah. But I will probably do it more frequently now.
Bryant, c’mon! This is actually a mostly random sampling of what went through my head over the course of like 120 minutes yesterday, so yes, this post is on shuffle. Music evokes a mood, though, that simple thought usually doesn’t, and I think therein lies the difference.
CWillZ, I knew that part would elicit a response from you, so mission accomplished. The pants were “emergent” not “emerging”, which I think is possibly more scandalous? I think coattails and a stove top hat would greatly evoke the ancient-future state.