haha
Korea + Korean on del.icio.us.
My links pertaining to Korea and anything I have found that is Korean on the internet. Check them out. If you have any recommendations, email me.
The ‘net is abuzz with news of Apple’s latest announcements: the iPod Nano, the Motorola ROKR E1, and iTunes 5. Here are my thoughts on all:
iPod Nano: Excellent idea, looks great, but there are two things that get me. The first is storage size. Only 2GB or 4GB!? My iTunes library has 20+ in it, and I’m not one to simply transfer playlists. Secondly, and this is more a problem I have with Apple as a whole, not just the Nano: Why does Apple keep making things smaller, but in turn keep limiting you in terms of gigabytes. I’d almost rather see a 200GB iPod than the 2GB iPod Nano. Increase storage capacity and keep the size and I will buy it immediately.
iTunes 5.0: Works great so far. The new search bar is something I’ve been wanting for a while. The new look is something I’ll have to get used to. I’m not sure what the playlist folders are for…I don’t see any applications for them. Smart Shuffling is another feature I’ve been in need of, and although it’s hard to figure out how to use, one you figure it out it’s great. Although I am not in need of the parental controls, I’m sure all of the parents out there are extremely happy about them.
Motorola ROKR E1: The concept is cool, but only 100 songs? Isn’t there a phone out there with a 4GB hard drive in it? Come on guys, you can do better than 100 songs. And CINGULAR!? Verizon has the superior coverage, but I’m not arguing over wireless companies, so I’ll stop.
Links: iPod Nano | iTunes 5.0 | Motorola ROKR E1
Why ask why?
I suppose that depends on who is asking why. To a child, asking why is necessary because he or she has no basis for the reason that man is in the wheelchair or why the pencil falls down when you let go of it. Children have a natural inquisitiveness about them that makes them wonder how things work and what makes them work the way they do.
Teenagers, however, ask why due to their selfish nature. “Why do I have to take out the trash?”, or “Why do I have to go to bed now?”. Everything is about them, rarely is anything about others.
Adults ask why because all their life they have asked why and never had a sufficient answer to the question. Until I myself reach adulthood, I will leave this as a mere conjecture to why adults ask why, as I will not know until then.
When viewed as a whole and not simply age-wise, humans have a deeper, innate sense of wonder provided to us by God to solve problems. Asking why allows us to get to the underlying problem that may not be visible by simply asking who, what, when, or where. Of all the questions one can ask, the answers “Why?” brings about are the least clear, which, in turn, bring about more questions for one to ask “Why?” about. Asking why is like peeling an onion: one layer comes off simply to leave you with another layer and so on. Until you reach the core of the question you are left with the simplest, outermost pieces of it.
Some may say “Why ask why? You will die anyway.” To that I say why eat? You will die anyway. Not asking why is a symptom of madness. Only the mentally ill would not question the world around them and the way things do the things the do. If one cannot or does not ask why, there must be something wrong deep inside them. Nothing should posses a human being to do anything but ask why about anything and everything. The question is the basis of 95%1 of every other question asked in the world. If one does not wonder why man has the faculty of wonder, then that man does not deserve feelings and thoughts, much less a brain itself to facilitate those perceptions of the world around him.
And because feelings and thoughts are perceptions of the world around us, and due to the fact that at some point in every human beings life they have felt or thought at least one thing, we are all given a brain to ask why those feelings and thoughts are the way they are. Some people, however, should not have been granted that luxury.
But above all other reasons to ask the question “Why?”, why not?
1 Statistics in this paper have not been based on any factual, scientific information.
Unlike many of my peers, I don’t like missing days of school or having days off. Why, you ask? It disrupts my learning process. I do best with no interruptions. Weekends are okay, but anything else hinders me in learning the most I possibly can.
Last spring my school had seven consecutive five day weeks of school. The previous fall we were continuously interrupted by holidays and random days off. When did I get better grades? Spring. What went by faster? Spring.
Since I’m not trying to argue or prove a point here, I won’t continue the opinionist stance of this post. On to better things.
Obviously, the above was provoked by the fact that we have no school today due to Labor Day. The only good thing about it, I suppose, is being able to sleep in. Otherwise all I’ve done today is homework. Oh, I also watched the movie Target of Opportunity. It was lacking to say the least.
On Friday night I was able to see The Transporter 2. It was full of great action, however somewhat unrealistic. I guess that’s what you get from Hollywood these days. I’ll probably end up renting it when it comes out on dvd, though.
Saturday my sister and I went to a show at the Mickinley Foundation. Medic! Medic!, Epitaph For an Enemy, For In You I Find Me, Ammi, Greenwood, and So Long Forgotten played. The show was excellent. One of the best local shows I’ve been to. It was my first time seeing FIYIFM and they were intense. If they are this energetic at all of their shows, then I will be attending every single one. Greenwood was great as usual. We had to leave during the middle of the SLF set, but what I heard of them I liked.
I am starting a new era in my blogging life. Not really, I just wanted to say that. I have a new design and I plan to update every day. I’ll cover the topics of my life, music, movies, and just about anything else I feel like covering. I plan on adding a bunch of features, some are already in the works.
You may notice that this is the only page on the site. I’ll be adding “about”, “contact”, and “archives” pages soon. I just have to find a good implementation for them in the design.