Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’re standing over the kitchen sink peeling a bag of carrots. After peeling the whole sack, you attempt to shove all of the resultant shavings down into the sink where the garbage disposal can quickly turn them to what amounts to wet dust and whisk them away to who-knows-where. But, as luck would have it, the disposal doesn’t live up to it’s end of the bargain and now you’re standing face to face with a sink full of murky water, complete with bits of last night’s meatloaf bobbing around, quietly mocking you. Most of the dudes reading this would shrug their shoulders at the inconvenience just before going to their garage to retrieve the appropriate tool to remove the clog. I, on the other hand, would probably pull my phone from my pocket and call up a friend of mine and ask him to come give me a hand. You see, I’m pretty much useless when it comes to fixing things around the house. Unless the item in question has a keyboard attached to it, there’s an excellent chance that my contribution in fixing it will be opening my friend’s beer while he does the fixing. Then, something awesome happened.
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The other day, I was leaving the office to drive home and wanted to download the latest episode of a podcast that I like. I fired up the iTunes app on my iPhone and tried to download it, but was quickly reminded that our office WiFi has been on the fritz for a few days and, because the audio file was larger than 10mb, I couldn’t download it over 3G. I remembered that you can play podcasts in their entirety through the iTunes app (a bit like the preview mode offered for regular music). I started the audio, it buffered quickly and I started listening. A few minutes later, I surmised that if I put the phone to sleep, it would probably halt the audio. So, for the entire ride home, I was swiping the screen with my finger every couple of minutes to make sure it kept playing. Definitely a workaround, but it got the job done.
Trading Comments for Adult Conversation
February 18, 2010A couple of weeks ago, a post I wrote on this blog garnered a bit of attention on Twitter. People showed up in pretty large numbers and so did the comments, many of which were positive. But, as with any opinion, there will always be people who don’t share it — and I’m fine with [...]