A move always disrupts your life in countless ways that won’t necessarily be apparent until months after the fact. When we packed up to move, I was only about halfway through sucking the souls of my CD collection onto the harddrive for iTunes management and iPod portability. Our collection was already a bit of mess …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
iPod update
I’m doomed. The cost to repair my iPod is MORE than the cost of a next-generation unit with 20gb storage. What a racket. When I told the tech on the phone that I was simply following their directions on the reinstall she said “maybe it was a bad download.” Buyer beware! As usual, Apple tech …
Cold Update
So today the streak of cold looks like it’s breaking. That’s a good thing. Locals have grumbled at and/or made fun of my perverse enjoyment of extremely cold temperatures, but I don’t want to romanticize it too much. The cold is hard on machinery as well as people: –after leaving it for a week, the …
update
Strangely enough, this morning’s cabdriver was even more upset about the Steelers’ loss than I was. And he’s never even been to Pittsburgh.
Steelers Letdown
Now THAT was a disappointment. Time to watch a movie.
Bad Television
I’ve been saving up the TV comments, so they’re all coming out in this entry. You will learn that I generally a) watch crap and b) am happy watching crap. OK, let’s begin. American Idol is now completely boring and lame. It was always boring once they got rid of all the bad people. Competent …
Cold
Yesterday, according to the weather channel’s website, it got down to -17F/-27C. According to my cabdriver, with windchill the “felt” temperature was -45C. If this was actually the case (cabbies have been known to exaggerate), that would be a new personal record for me. Last year, on this very weekend, I interviewed for the job …