iPods, Bluetooth & the Meaning of Life
As I've mentioned before, my morning bike rides provide a pleasant break from the daily fingers-to-the-keyboard grind. It's a time when I let my mind run free, and while my mind usually chooses to dwell upon unpronounceable words or erroneous conjugations of Spjavascript:editPlacements()anish verbs, every now and then it seizes upon a gem.
This morning was one of those rare occasions. I was pedaling down the 191 service road, just entering Steeple Row, when the most amazing thing sprang fully formed into my mind: an allegorical metaphor, incredibly multi-faceted and yet so simple that a child could comprehend it, even though it presented itself in the obscure alliterative onomatopoeiac form so favored by the early Phoenicians, and -- most wonderful of all -- pointing clearly to the key to the very meaning of life! My heart skipped a beat -- not a pleasant experience on a bike at 20 mph -- as I contemplated the implications of the gift I'd been bequeathed, and I turned it over and over in my mind, beholding its delicate beauty in awe, as one might examine a flawless jewel or, rarer still, a logical comment from Al Franken.
Unfortunately, I caught a glimpse of a mountain lion* and by the time I reached my turnaround point at the underpass, I'd completely lost every detail of the thought.
That's a darn shame, given how many people are making bad movies about the meaning of life. And thus, I make this appeal to Apple: give us a Bluetooth-capable iPod, and quickly. And then, to Dr. Bott or Kensington or Belkin: give us a wireless voice-activated headset microphone and receiver combination to mount on that iPod.
I don't think it's unjustified hyperbole to say that what's at stake is nothing less than the very meaning of life.
*OK, it wasn't really a mountain lion. But it was a baby squirrel**, and you know how attention-diverting they can be.
**OK...there was no baby squirrel, either. I just didn't think it was seemly to admit that I was distracted by my shorts riding up on me.
I'm simply confirming my commitment to Content Free© blogging.
Besides, I think this has all the elements of The Perfect Post: obscure references to dead civilizations; baby squirrels; and iPods. The symmetry is most pleasing.
Posted by: Eric at August 10, 2005 11:06 AM".......give us a wireless voice-activated headset microphone and receiver combination to mount on that iPod."
I am sure that's in Beta from somewhere's. And always remember, betaware is better than vaporware....
Yeah, it's too obvious an application for Apple NOT to be working on it.
Posted by: Eric at August 10, 2005 01:18 PMHmmm, does Amazon have a wish list for vapor ware? If so, sign me up for this one. :-D
Posted by: Kelly at August 13, 2005 12:18 PMHaha! This post is brilliant.
Posted by: mis_nomer at August 15, 2005 08:34 PMAbout the publisher
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