Big Apple.......Meet (Bit)ten Apple!
Couple of weekends back, I took the path train from Pavonia, NJ to 33rd Street, NYC.
Back in the fall of 2002, when I took that very same train, there were scores of commuters holding a paperback in one hand, and the other hand clasped to anything that supported them on a train that swayed erratically along the rail bends.
The ones who cared less for fiction, were either logophiliacs who were lost in the randomly shaded squares of the NY Times crossword puzzle or just commuters catching up with some sleep.
Three years hence, nothing seems to have changed. Same paperbacks for the mass market, same logophiliacs. But, there is a big and significant addition - digital music's biggest gift to a city like NYC.
Its almost become a closet essential for the upwardly mobile. There's that swanky spectacle frames from Chanel, shoes from salvatore ferragamo, ties from Pink, wallets /purses from Louis Vuitton, and then there's music from i-Pod. Hmm...ok! I meant upwardly, who happen to be mobile.
Big Apple.... Meet (Bit)ten Apple!
In a way, i-Pod trotting Newyorkers might have finally found a way to shut off their city's trademark sounds - sounds of cab honks and sirens, screaming street side vendors, the annoyingly loud and squeaky sounds of the train pulling over at the station.
A_Chote_Kucher sent me a link to a i-Pod center table. State of things to come? Don't be surprised if you hear Apple upselling a new line of bathroomware. Toilet seats with RFIDs perhaps. What bathroom reading material? You could be pulling up a LCD from the water tank behind and catch up with slashdot.org.
All that, while you are still seated and taking care of business. A_Chote_Kucher, isnt that bathroom nirvana for you?
So here's whats playing on my i-Pod these days.
Kaiser Chiefs - These guys are pretty new on the british rock scene. Their first every album titled 'Employment'. Kick ass is all I can say.
Bunti aur Babli - Shankar Mahadevan's fun, pacy tracks
Oasis's new album
Gwen Steffani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby
Back in the fall of 2002, when I took that very same train, there were scores of commuters holding a paperback in one hand, and the other hand clasped to anything that supported them on a train that swayed erratically along the rail bends.
The ones who cared less for fiction, were either logophiliacs who were lost in the randomly shaded squares of the NY Times crossword puzzle or just commuters catching up with some sleep.
Three years hence, nothing seems to have changed. Same paperbacks for the mass market, same logophiliacs. But, there is a big and significant addition - digital music's biggest gift to a city like NYC.
Its almost become a closet essential for the upwardly mobile. There's that swanky spectacle frames from Chanel, shoes from salvatore ferragamo, ties from Pink, wallets /purses from Louis Vuitton, and then there's music from i-Pod. Hmm...ok! I meant upwardly, who happen to be mobile.
Big Apple.... Meet (Bit)ten Apple!
In a way, i-Pod trotting Newyorkers might have finally found a way to shut off their city's trademark sounds - sounds of cab honks and sirens, screaming street side vendors, the annoyingly loud and squeaky sounds of the train pulling over at the station.
A_Chote_Kucher sent me a link to a i-Pod center table. State of things to come? Don't be surprised if you hear Apple upselling a new line of bathroomware. Toilet seats with RFIDs perhaps. What bathroom reading material? You could be pulling up a LCD from the water tank behind and catch up with slashdot.org.
All that, while you are still seated and taking care of business. A_Chote_Kucher, isnt that bathroom nirvana for you?
So here's whats playing on my i-Pod these days.
Kaiser Chiefs - These guys are pretty new on the british rock scene. Their first every album titled 'Employment'. Kick ass is all I can say.
Bunti aur Babli - Shankar Mahadevan's fun, pacy tracks
Oasis's new album
Gwen Steffani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby
posted by Still in Trance @ 1:19 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:16 AM,
compos mentis said…
Check this out while we're on bathroom nirvana. Nano Crappers. Delightful.
At 6:49 PM,
Still in Trance said…
Only you. Only you can can use "delightful" for a nanotech crapper:)..Pray! tell me how did you hit upon this site..did ya google (OR FROOGLE) for "crappers with LCD"
At 7:37 PM,
compos mentis said…
It was on Boing Boing :-)
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