Phone

I have been working on real work. This has resulted in little to no work taking place on my online future. This doesn’t make me a happy man, but it does make me a paid one, and a fed one. And a fat one.

In the meantime I’ve been working on the equipment that I’m going to use to user in this domination (while reading this you can read “working” and substitute “fill in so I can write about something” if you will, although some of it will be interesting to the type of people who like to use their gadgets and gizmos in a different manor).

My iPhone is very important to me, because I have terrible attention span issues. If I don’t have the iPhone with me, then I feel a bit weird. I can’t walk from the car to the apartment without listening to some podcast or another. Seriously, this is a problem. I like the phone part because I can ignore your calls while I’m listening to some yahoo talk about something unimportant.

I watch a lot of videos on it as well. Frustratingly I do this while walking, which annoys some people (I’m not sure why because I’m 6’6” and 120kgs, so there is whole lot of me to see walking towards you. If you can’t get out of the way, better hope you’re 130kgs…). This creates some problems, because my phone only has 8gbs of energy. I mean memory, but it’s the same to me.

To combat this I came up with my own little system of playlists of awesomeness.

Album Favourites
I plonk my favourite albums with me here. I never know when I’m going to need to listen to some Bloc Party, or possibly some Flight of the Conchords. Needless to say I change this often because I have that whole attention thing…
And now I’ve forgotten what I was talking about. Oh yeah.

New Albums
When I buy new stuff, which I am prone to do, I put it here. I usually delete it when I’ve listened to it enough times to rate the tracks in iTunes (I may have mentioned this before, but I am a metadata freak. Sometimes stuff from here migrates over to the album favourites. It’s usually these that get deleted from there when I get bored of them.

iPhone Videos
The latest single episode of whatever shows I’m watching at the time. Also a bunch of old Doctor Who episodes, as I’m working my way through them again. This is cure for my attention thing. I always have time for the good Doctor.

What really keeps me going on this thing is the podcasts. I loves me some podcasts, and usually decimate my bandwidth with them. Decimate is a good word actually, as it actually does take 10% of the fricken bandwidth.

I’m bored of talking about this now.