Article:		Failing Miserably, If Not Inventively
Subject:		??
Date:		2004-02-07 20:32:47
From:		seraglio
Response to: ??
With your rabid automation skills your robot computer could be collecting for you at exponential rates via broadband even when you're not around, right? You could be saving immense amounts of time, which as I am told is also money. Your religious devotion to dialup is, therefore, heresy. Dialup is dead.

Showing messages 1 through 1 of 1.

• ??
  2004-02-07 20:44:02  Kevin Hemenway | [Reply | View]
  
  
  Your suggestion is idiotic. Collecting is not about amassing files for the sake of amassing files. Collecting is about enjoying what you're collecting. Having more of what I like means less time to enjoy each individual piece. I'm already behind roughly 200 albums, all leeched through dialup (my listened-to collection is available at http://disobey.com/d/lists/albums, where I don't consider an album "listened to" unless it's gone through the player twice, from start to finish, sans interruption). Likewise, only 20% of my mpeg collection has been watched, cataloged, and enjoyed (that 20% is at http://disobey.com/d/lists/video_files). Increasing the amount I download merely decreases the amount I enjoy. The current line of reasoning is that I'm losing "time" because dialup is "slow"; it shows an incredible lack of understanding about what I do with my machine, how I do it, and what type of time I wish I had more of. As predicted, you hold your sides in contempt, yet I merely chuckle at your ignorance.