Things I Don't Understand

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I am tired of seeing every electronic device with a screen have a built in camera.  The idea is not bad for certain devices.  Computers with built in cameras, for instance, are useful.  It is quick and easy to get a picture onto your computer for editing, emailing, and anything else.  Cameras on phones also make a little sense to me.  People always have their phones with them and they can also send their photos.  It is unfortunate that the quality of these cameras is poor, but size is a sacrifice for quality.
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The last straw for me was seeing that the new iPod nanos have built in cameras.  Why do you need a camera on an iPod?  Were there customers out there who liked iPods but refused to buy them because they couldn’t take pictures?  Of all products the iPod nano is about the silliest thing to put a camera on.  What’s next putting a camera on the back of our camera?
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The purpose of the posts on vintage TIDU (Things I Don’t Understand) is to show that I am not perfect.  Just because there is something that I don’t understand doesn’t mean that that thing isn’t awesome or that someday I will understand it.  Ipods are a good example.

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I was in fourth grade when I encountered my first iPod.  My friend, Andy, had one that he brought on the bus.  At this time kids had CD players to listen to their music.  I had a purple Casio and CD holder that held 32 of my favorite CDs.  When Andy showed me his square white device, I thought sure this thing is tiny and expensive, but why do I want it.  I couldn’t understand why a person would want to have all of there music with them at all times.  What are the chances of you needing to hear 30 hours of music?  Why not just bring 32 of your favorite CDs?

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Turns out, iPods are convenient.  Sure I still don’t need to hear 30 hours of music but now I can listen to random songs and easily create playlists.  I can also brag that I am not a PC and by default, I am also not a nerdy white guy in a suit.

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Today I understand iPods and accept their place in the world and in my ears.

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Next time: Vampires

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I don’t understand twitter. What valuable information could be portrayed in only 140 characters? I can’t think of anything. The only messages that are really important and also brief involve the words help, danger, fire, and diarrhea. Unfortunately, most tweets involve cat photos and mundane activities. Only occasionally does Ashton Kutcher tweet about bowel movements.

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There are some things that I don’t need to know about, and with twitter, I now know that there are many things I don’t need to know about. I don’t care how long the line at the grocery store was. I don’t care that you changed deodorant. I don’t care that your dog looks cute in “people clothes”.

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What they really should work on is a website like twitter but instead of telling me what other people are doing, the messages will be translated into what it means to me. I would call it MEtter.

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For Example a normal twitter message from “Randy” might look like this: “shoveled snow for 40 mins. winter sux..”

A translated version would look like this: “it snowed”.

See it got right to the point. I don’t need to look at pointless messages anymore (unless they are facebook statuses).

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Here’s are more examples:
Ted says “I ♥ garlic bread” =====> MEtter says “don’t get too close to Ted”

Paul says “played beatles rock band. drums are hard :/ ” =====> MEtter says “don’t mess with Ringo”

June says “out of red bull. gunna die” =====> MEtter says “Joe, get new friends.”
I cannot wait until twitter is gone because then maybe this will stop being “news.”

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.Next time: Matthew McConaughey

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