Wasn't it just Wednesday? What the hell, man? I'm scared, Dave. I think my mind is . . . going.
Anyway, it's time for a new Geek in Review. This one is all about technology, and its role in my life:
I reached into my pocket and pressed play on my shuffle. Oingo Boingo's When the Lights go OutDark at the End of the Tunnel on repeat while I wrote the first drafts of what eventually became Just A Geek and Dancing Barefoot. I cradled my tiny iPod shuffle and its 240 songs -- about 26 albums or so -- in the palm of my hand, and began to jog.
And that's when I had it: I held, in the palm of my hand, a gigabyte of memory, and on that gigabyte of memory sat more music than all the records I owned just before the CD came out in 9th grade. I've grown up and come of age in a world where technology advances so rapidly and costs come down so quickly, I totally take it for granted.
I thought I'd hit about 1200 words, and ended up finishing somewhere closer to 1700, because I'm so goddamned wordy. The Newswire is gloriously safe for work at the moment, (I'm actually queuing this up at midnight, because I'll be out with Mrs. Wheaton when this goes live, not celebrating "that bullshit Hallmark holiday") so please enjoy, and please let me know what you think.
