More signs of the 21st century

I got an iPod a few months ago, and love it. I listen to it (almost) daily, whereas before most of my music came from the car radio going to and from work. I have a CD player at home, but I rarely listen to it, since it plays (obviously) an entire CD at a time, and that's not necessarily what I want. So today I bought a speaker for my iPod, and will be getting rid of the CD player, and storing the CDs. It's all computers now.

I was in Dick Clark's restaurant in the Salt Lake City airport a few years back, and hanging on the walls are a bunch of platinum record plaques, with the LP in a frame with the award. A little boy at the next table earnestly asked his father what the big round things are. I think in a few years little boys may not recognize CD's, either.

Something fun to do in Mountain View Tuesday night

For those in the Mountain View area, on Tuesday night my friend Rachel is doing a reading/signing of her new book at Books, Inc. at 7:30. Her book (All the Fishes Come Home to Roost) is a very funny yet horrifying memoir of growing up in Meher Baba's ashram in Indian. If we're lucky, she'll do a reading. You should all come, because even if you don't have a lot of interest in funny-yet-horrifying memoirs, c'mon, it's a bookstore on a street full of good restaurants. What else are you going to do on a Tuesday night?