I’d buy an iPod Phone if it really existed (via The Cult of Mac Blog):
The iPod phone: another great idea from Isamu Sanada, the great fantasy Mac designer. Shades of Handspring’s Springboard expansion modules.
The device could be made to fit today’s iPods, except for the lack of an internal speaker for the user’s ear. Of course, the existing beep/alarm speaker could perhaps be used, and then we could hear both sides of your conversation from our restaurant table.
Those little buttons would be kinda hard to press, too.
Jennifer says:
I found an old cd tonight and with the finding came a bundle of memories. Choose Life by Big Tent Revival. The minute my fingers slipped it into my car stereo, I felt like I was back in college.
Careful: the music you listen to will imperceptibly and unconsciously brand itself with your current life circumstances.
Twelve years ago, we were going through a nasty church situation that ultimately ended with Dad resigning his pastorship there. Or so I’m told — I was too young for such insider’s knowledge. But for some reason during that period, we bought two copies of a children’s songs album entitled “God’s Way: A Song A Day”, with matching songbooks, and listened to them over, and over, and over. And then we’d turn the tape over and listen again.
Every few years now, we run across one of those catchy little cassettes. And each time we listen to it, Mom mentions how all those feelings come rushing back to her.
Similarly, I have music on my computer that I acquired when I first began working for PA.net and discovered MP3s, back when I was first stepping out into the world and learning to get over my socialization issues (which, in my parents’ defense, were not entirely induced by my home-education). Avalon’s Wonder Why, Point of Grace’s Circle of Friends, Steven’s The Change, and (somehow) John Starnes‘ Cornerstone all still take me back to that mix of insecurity and exciting self-discovery.
It’s a good feeling.
