Before my children were born there were lots of preparations to be made. We stocked up on parenting books, baby clothes, baby furniture, quilts, toys, mobiles, diapers, and all the other supplies and equipment of parenthood. It was a big deal! The preparation and anticipation were all consuming.
Lest you jump to any hasty conclusions, I’m not about to equate having children with acquiring a new iPhone. There are, however, some interesting parallels.
(more…)
I love this age of hot and cold running information! Random songs used to wander around in my head for days. What was that song? Who sang it? Now, with minimal effort, and a few well chosen inquiries, it takes very little time for a song to move from inside my head to inside my iTunes library.
“It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wro-ong”; my head sang to me. I was sitting on the patio having dinner with Linda. I sang her the snippet. “Who sang that?”, she asked. “I think it was Free“, said I. “They also did “Alright Now”, Linda offered. “Then it wasn’t “Free”, said I.
A quick trip to iTunes on the kitchen computer identified “Spirit” as the group that sang Nature’s Way in the early 70′s. 
It also provided a plethora of subsequent covers. Then to top it all off, a short search of youtube uncovered this video:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsTK2LHZKPQ]
I know I’m not the only one to believe that this is amazing. Why isn’t everyone amazed? How old do you have to be for it to be amazing? Will those who aren’t amazed finally be impressed when they can hum the song and a Google-created audio-algorithm can identify it? Is it possible that, in this time and place, an attitude of “anything is possible” has supplanted “wonder”.
Making Persistent History One Post At a Time