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[theinevitable]

I, too, love that.

What bugs me is when there is some really easy, useful feature they could have, and don't.

My iPod example of this, which my brother claims that only I would use, is this--
let's say I'm listening to a playlist on shuffle, or just my whole library on random, and a song comes on. Oh, shit, I fuck*ng love Led Zeppelin. Oh man, I want to listen to more of this band, right now.
Now, see, right now what I would have to do is go menu menu music>artists>(scroll down to Led Zeppelin which takes forever because I have too much freaking music)>click.
where, you know, it seems like it would be easy to have some kind of little menu where you just click the center button a few times, and click a little thing that says "go to this artist" or "go to this album."

What I'm saying is, I have a love of things that are well designed, like the iPod, and would like to think that I could have a clever idea for a product or feature.

[Nabubrush]

Huh, turns out your brother is wrong about that, too.

[lprkn]

Dude, Inev, I am so with you. Here is a guy who is on your side.

A tiny can to acknowledge that whole thing about great minds floating past each other in the gutter, or whatever.

[theinevitable]

let's be honest here. i was pretty sure he was wrong, and I was giraffeing for people telling me I am clever. Sorry.

also, thanks for agreeing with me that it is a clever or useful idea.

[jay-ell]

no, it doesn't let you do slightly odd repetition patterns.
the options are:
daily
monthly
weekdays
every mon/wed/fri
tu/thurs
weekly
yearly

Actually, if you choose "weekly," you can use checkboxen to select the days of the week something occurs.  So you could do mon/wed (without Friday), or if you wanted to get really crazy you could even do mon/tues/sat!  Or Sun/Mon/Tues!  Or...whatever you need.  You can also choose under "monthly" whether an event recurs by day of the month (always the 15th) or day of the week (third Tuesdays). 

GooCal is The Hawt Roxx, Pedro and each have one that is attached to our gmail accounts but we share access to each other's, so he can put events on mine and I on his.  My calendar also hosts the kids' calendars, which we can both edit, and I can view the schedule for the drama group he directs at church but I can't change it. 

We've been using it for over a year now and it has been really awesome.  Previously I used Yahoo calendar, which is great for an individual but (last time I checked, over a year ago) not as good for sharing. 

[linnea]

...notice that Nabu has a really fuckin' cute avatar! Is that Bob, the 22-lb kitteh?

Also, my brain almost imploded from frustration today. I bought some shite on eBay and it was supposed to arrive Friday. But then it didn't. My roommate was in the basement and did not hear the postman ring the bell today, and so the postman took the package back to the cavernous, huge, scary post office. My roommate got my text message to let me know about this development. So I took off work early, drove like a bat outta hell through shiteous Denver rush hour traffic to get home, and then drove like hell another ridiculous distance to the post office. Of course, when I got there, I learned that it would not be available until 1/23 at 0700. Listen, fuck you people. I just want my goddamned stuff.

So that means I left work early, hauled ass to get home, and drove waaaaay out of my way for nothin'.

I'm sure that postal systems in other countries are even worse and Byzantine and require many little pieces of paper in order to get your shit back that the fuckers are holding ransom, and I should probably calm down about this, but I'm still cranky about it.

[lprkn]

I wonder if the postman rang twice...

[Doc]

Don't be crazy porkins, the postman Always rings.... OH god this is so shallow! Here we are just re-iterating tired catchphrases over and over again, never creating something and giving it to the world, just living in the shadows of glory; a great record on endless repeat, scratchier with every revolution.

I mean, yeah, he usually does.

[theinevitable]

have you been reading Cat and Girl a lot?

[Nabubrush]

Today I'll be watching the weather sock in, and hoping that it will blow itself out so the planes can fly tomorrow and I can get home so I can minister to my wife, who has strep throat. Currently the weather is such that no workers can leave the building for any reason, and only emergency personnel are allowed to travel around the field.



<--- That's Bob.

[Limmo]

My iPod example of this, which my brother claims that only I would use, is this--
let's say I'm listening to a playlist on shuffle, or just my whole library on random, and a song comes on. Oh, shit, I fuck*ng love Led Zeppelin. Oh man, I want to listen to more of this band, right now.
Now, see, right now what I would have to do is go menu menu music>artists>(scroll down to Led Zeppelin which takes forever because I have too much freaking music)>click.
where, you know, it seems like it would be easy to have some kind of little menu where you just click the center button a few times, and click a little thing that says "go to this artist" or "go to this album."

What I'm saying is, I have a love of things that are well designed, like the iPod, and would like to think that I could have a clever idea for a product or feature.

Canned for reading my mind.  Your brother is one of those unfortunates who just doesn't get it.

[littlefallsmets]

Aren't there mp3 players that can do such things already and they're just... the bigger models that allow for the proper buttonage for those choices?

This is a lot of why I have not taken the i-Pod plunge yet... they look over-user friendly. Like, one button and four directional arrows? Oh man, when I have tinkered with my girlfriend's i-Pod that crap drove me crazy.

"Just... let me type in which song I want. LET ME TYPE THE WORD. LET ME PLUG IN A KEYBOARD AND TYPE THE WORD, GODDAMN YOU."

This is also why I do not text from my cellular phone. I have a problem with facing a ridiculously over-simplified process and just throwing my hands in the air and giving up because... it is so user-friendly that it has spun the dial and become un-user-friendly again.

This is the problem with all Macintosh products, however.

[Nabubrush]

"Just... let me type in which song I want. LET ME TYPE THE WORD. LET ME PLUG IN A KEYBOARD AND TYPE THE WORD, GODDAMN YOU."

Well, to be fair, you can do this with an iPod.

[CortJstr]

I'm going to try to be motivated at work after spending 5 days working down in Ft. Lauderdale and going out way too late for drinks every single night. Also, when I'm here Veronika sits in a totally different room, but when we were in Florida she was right next to me. And in a couple of weeks she'll be back in Moscow. Boo to that.

[Nabubrush]

Is that the girl you couldn't get pictures of in the bikini?