Saying Nothing in Stereo. Tools as Novella.

A large section of the Internet today reminds me of the guy at your high school in 1984, out in the student parking lot, talking endlessly about the awesome new stereo in his red Camaro Z28. He spends much more time in that parking lot showing everyone his massive kicker box and bad ass set of tweeters than he does actually using them.

And when he does use them, it’s primarily so everyone else can hear it.

You know this guy. In fact, you might have been this guy, or girl (Sony made pink Walkmans). I’m sure at some point I might have been this guy, but about 10 years down the road.

The other day I gave my used iPod Nano to my eight-year old nephew as an unexpected gift.

His first response was, “Cool! Let’s put some songs on it!”

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