neurological dryer lint

so the ipod shuffle is a neat little idea. i wonder what the backlash will be on the lack of screen - which i wouldn't mind because i don't usually ever look at the screen when i'm listening to mine. and i guess you don't have a listing of song titles on your regular portable cd player - but then again you don't have 1GB of music on there. i don't know. lots of people will get them, simply for the sake of trendiness.

it's really, really sick how i started thinking about how badly i needed one when i looked at the announcement. it's like, come on, you materialistic freak. what the HECK is my brain's problem? i'm sure there are plenty of people who did the same, yeah, and i'm sure mike will leave some sort of comment like 'geez you're probably gonna buy that too!'. yeah. i have a gadget problem. it's a weakness. it's my personal self-destructive behavior. i see myself do it and i beat myself up internally about it because i know i can't save money worth crap.

it's interesting. i read part of this book tonight at borders called blink, the author, gladwell, was on bob edwards this morning. it sounded really good - so i killed a few chapters... the whole thing is about the unconscious mind and how we make snap decisions. really interesting stuff. there's one part that talks about a section of the brain called the ventromedial area - how we obtain knowledge about things and somehow a portion of our knowledge is unable to affect our actions.

a very easy cop-out, yes. unless it's true. maybe it is. naturally, human brokenness comes in to play a major role here. i guess the things that i can't stop from doing - even though i know they're harmful - yeah, it's a little more common. anyway. real sweet book.

listening to: dead poetic - glass in the trees