A _perfect_ use-case for the iPad
So I'm sitting on the balcony of a holiday house a bit north of home:
I'm idly flipping through Twitter, and Vernon Reid (from Living Color, remember the song Cult Of Personality?) tweets about Eric Johnson, who I haven't even _thought_ about in years:
So I put Eric's 1986 album "Tones" on, and think " This is a _great_ album! I wonder who this is playing bass on Soulful Terrain?".
A quick poke at Wikipedia and Itunes reveals there's a recent album which I buy:
And and also tells me the bass player is Roscoe Beck, who's also played with Robben Ford (which the iPod is unfortunately lacking, I must move his albums up in the "must get around to ripping from vinyl" list), and Leonard Cohen (there's the next select for the playlist).
And then, as this post gets weirdly self referential, I take a bunch of screen grabs, crop them with PhotoPal, upload them to Flickr with Mobile Fotos, and blog about it...
I think its pretty amazing that's possible at all. High powered mobile computing, ubiquitous wireless broadband (& _affordable_ wireless broadband), Twitters global "random thoughts" stream and my ability to "eavesdrop" on posts by people who might interest me, Wikipedia's amazing collection of random information on just about any odd query that might pop into my head, iTunes music stores practically endless catalog of obscure mid 80's bands and ability to sell me new albums by old favorite artists over the air on an impulse-buying whim.
I wonder how I used to fill the 30 or 40 minutes everyone else took to get ready to walk 70m to the beach before technology let this happen? (I guess it probably wouldn't have cost me ~$17 buying a new album...)
I'm idly flipping through Twitter, and Vernon Reid (from Living Color, remember the song Cult Of Personality?) tweets about Eric Johnson, who I haven't even _thought_ about in years:
So I put Eric's 1986 album "Tones" on, and think " This is a _great_ album! I wonder who this is playing bass on Soulful Terrain?".
A quick poke at Wikipedia and Itunes reveals there's a recent album which I buy:
And and also tells me the bass player is Roscoe Beck, who's also played with Robben Ford (which the iPod is unfortunately lacking, I must move his albums up in the "must get around to ripping from vinyl" list), and Leonard Cohen (there's the next select for the playlist).
And then, as this post gets weirdly self referential, I take a bunch of screen grabs, crop them with PhotoPal, upload them to Flickr with Mobile Fotos, and blog about it...
I think its pretty amazing that's possible at all. High powered mobile computing, ubiquitous wireless broadband (& _affordable_ wireless broadband), Twitters global "random thoughts" stream and my ability to "eavesdrop" on posts by people who might interest me, Wikipedia's amazing collection of random information on just about any odd query that might pop into my head, iTunes music stores practically endless catalog of obscure mid 80's bands and ability to sell me new albums by old favorite artists over the air on an impulse-buying whim.
I wonder how I used to fill the 30 or 40 minutes everyone else took to get ready to walk 70m to the beach before technology let this happen? (I guess it probably wouldn't have cost me ~$17 buying a new album...)
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