3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

The wife has been ill, so a not so early run as I had to get our son ready for school AND take him to school. Normally, we share these tasks. A good run nonetheless. I listened to the Daily Source Code and The Vines. Which made me think of some irony. I bought The Vines because of an iPod commercial. Yet, I don't own an iPod as it would require me to re-rip or convert music I have ripped already. I don't want to spend any time recapturing music I have already captured. So, I bought the Creative Zen Sleek because it supported MP3 and Microsoft's format. [side thought: I remember purchasing LP's to given them a thorough clean and deionizing to record onto cassette. Good clean sound, little wear and tear, and portability. I already repurchased and re-ripped much music once] It doesn't end there though. I was recently listening to a podcast of Peter Coffee, eWeek based podcasts. He correctly noted that the recording industry just doesn't get it. The more they invest in suing customers and making DRM so onerous that we can't easily get music, we will just do it illegitimately. I don't support stealing music (file sharing copyrighted material) AT ALL. I buy CDs, rip them, put them on my MP3 player and share with no one. Why? Because, I can BUY the music and get it how I want it easily. In fact, I have purchased 1 song from iTunes. I couldn't legitimately convert it to something I could use. The end of iTunes utility for me. I went and bought the CD (yes, for just 1 song). I recently tried to buy a song from other sources that I could put on my player. Every single site I found wanted me to install their "jukebox'. Are you kidding me? I don't want you f**king software. I want the music. I already have more jukeboxes then I know what to do with. Fortunately, I realized I had the CD already. I just hadn't ripped it. Hint to music industry: give us a easy, reasonable, legitimate way to pay for music without sneaking software (sometime insecure software) on to my machine. Don't try to corner me into a single provider for hardware or software. To do otherwise, makes us both consider doing things that really doesn't help either of us. Get a f**king clue. OK, the irony turned into a rant. EXCUSE ME! (Not) Data: Distance: 3 Miles Time: 29:04 Heart Rate: 156 Pace: 9:40 Weather: Mostly sunny, 52 degrees