Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Words of the wise (oct 29); The World Turns Fast.

I used to have a tape, it was not even mine, but I had it (I think I optioned it thought less then illegal means). But that doesn’t matter much now, what matters is what I’m about to say; that is the speed at witch the world turns.
For my birthday I got a CD/tape/radio jam box or what ever it’s called, I also got a CD I put my tape in and listened to it, then I put my shiny new disc in and listened to that.
A few years later I got enough money from pay phones and vending machines to buy another CD I also liked it, after that I went into a CD buying frenzy I think I bought 3 in one year! Then I realized that I had over ten discs, I needed some way of lugging them all around, so like many other crazed consumers I did the sensible thing to do… Wait until Christmas and have Santa give me one. In this case I got a nice black and grey CD case holding a total of 32 discs! I put all my CD’s in it, but then I realized that I did not have the enough to fill it up, so I made back ups of all my music, then back ups of the backups, and then I made mixes of all my CDs.
My CD case was full at last, and I was happy until I got an iPod. Then I found out that all my backups and mixed CDs were good for only two things and they were transferring them to my iPod, and then selling them so I could buy more songs on iTunes.
Where did all this getting rid of my CDs leave my CD case that Santa gave me? Well it sat in the back of my drawer for a few weeks until I discovered a new technology; the DVD! So by this time I had collected about 40 digital video discs, how the heck was I going to take this massive collection to my friends house, so I loaded all my DVDs into my CD case grabbed my iPod, I was off to my friends house for 10,000 hours 41 minuets and 32 seconds of meada.
This is where I am now, but I know as well as you do that soon they will invent an MP3 DVD player and then I will not need my DVDs any more. I have prepared a plan for when this happens I will sell my DVDs to a history museum for lots of money.
This has all happened very fast, so fast that I’m sure that some people still have family air looms called records, I’m not sure any body knows what a record dose but I do know that Paleontologists just discovered a record about 3 feet below where they found Lucy, any way my point is to stay up to date on our fast moving world you have to be rich and fast so you can buy stuff the minute it comes out, because you know by the time Amazon ships it to you it will be outdated.

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