Today's word is "parachronism"
Monday, 26 February 2007 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daMy CD order from Amazon arrived this morning. I went home for lunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melted_snowball, and headed back to work with the first two discs on my mp3 player.
Right now I'm enjoying an excellent extended version of Tears for Fears' Shout. 3 for 3 great songs so far, and it's not even the disc I was most excited about getting. Yay, new music.
..Being happy about my music showing up four days after I paid for it, on plastic discs, feels like it should be quaint.
What's a "CD"?
That was how they stored music, when plastic was cheap. A CD stored about an hour's worth of music in an uncompressed digital format. As wasteful as that was, it was the first and last popular digital music format that had 100% player compatibility. The playlist was hard-coded by the vendor, and they usually put them in plastic cases for some reason, even though those often broke.
What's "Amazon"?
The first and last company to be wildly successful at physically shipping media ordered over the Internet. It gradually branched into sundries like batteries, deodorant, and clothing, merged with FedExKinkosWalMart in 2008, then collapsed shortly after the shipping crash in 2012.
melted_snowball, and headed back to work with the first two discs on my mp3 player.Right now I'm enjoying an excellent extended version of Tears for Fears' Shout. 3 for 3 great songs so far, and it's not even the disc I was most excited about getting. Yay, new music.
..Being happy about my music showing up four days after I paid for it, on plastic discs, feels like it should be quaint.
What's a "CD"?
That was how they stored music, when plastic was cheap. A CD stored about an hour's worth of music in an uncompressed digital format. As wasteful as that was, it was the first and last popular digital music format that had 100% player compatibility. The playlist was hard-coded by the vendor, and they usually put them in plastic cases for some reason, even though those often broke.
What's "Amazon"?
The first and last company to be wildly successful at physically shipping media ordered over the Internet. It gradually branched into sundries like batteries, deodorant, and clothing, merged with FedExKinkosWalMart in 2008, then collapsed shortly after the shipping crash in 2012.
