Friday Cat Blogging 2
"Like my speaker? I have another one over there."
"Like my speaker? I have another one over there."
"I think the lead channel needs more bite!"
Well, actually they said E differs from mc2 by at most 0.0000004, which is "consistent with equality."
Yet they've been largely ignored by the industry. I don't expect it to change either. My take is that women are buying more e-gear now because a lot of the tech has become mature—for example, you can buy a five megapixel camera for a reasonable price this year. But watch how the industry tries to court the female consumer. You'll see brighter colors and "simpler interfaces" billed as woman-friendly. Sheesh, most women want what <I>I</I> want: a good product at a good price. Instead, they get vanity mirrors.
My wife has suspected this for years.
They're different—physically and functionally.
During that brief, but sad, period when <a href="http://www.donewaiting.com/nyc/archives/002253.php">the Multi-Purpose Solution</a> wasn't making music, I spent some time booking shows at the now gone, but not forgotten, Jersey City rock venue, Uncle Joe's.
Tris McCall has posted his <a href="http://www.trismccall.net/pop_music_abstract_2005.htm">2005 Pop Music Abstract</a>.
"Do you want a ride to work?"<br>
"What?"<br>
"Are you going to Manhattan?"<br>
"Yeah."<br>
"Do you want a ride to work?"<br>
"What do you mean?"<br>
"I've got my car over there. I'm going to 58th Street, but you need four people in a car to be allowed to drive into the City. You wanna ride?"<br>
"Nah, man. You're a stranger. Good luck with that, though."
Some of these were banned, not because of what they showed, but because the censors had <I>really</I> filthy imaginations. Who would have ever guessed?