Post by gammonstark on Aug 10, 2015 12:37:23 GMT -7
Incoming Epic post? I was almost tempted just to call in or email you an mp3 :-) I started listening to the episode as I hopped into my car to get food (irony, I guess). As I listened to Joe talk about the moving media conundrum, I told myself that I need to write some stuff once I get home. I ate and continued to listen to the show as I played some Tales of Xillia 2. You guys have basically become the soundtrack to that game. The whole time I am thinking that I need to write down some comments because I want to post once the episode is over. Then I get called out. Mind-blown.
Moving
When I moved out of my parents house (rather late in life), I knew I could not take all my books. Games and movies were not a problem (yet). I went eBay crazy. I started selling really valuable (economically and personally) stuff and giving other things away. There was a point where the item was worth more to me than the money, so I did keep a lot of my books. I ended up selling board games and AD&D stuff.
Once I was settled in my apartment, I felt fine. I had some good artifacts especially considering the minimum amount space available for said artifacts. A couple of years went buy, I got more stuff. Then came the Year of Four Moves! Each move, I ditched about half my stuff. Movies and games were a problem this time. I did do the CD binder thing. But I only did that for boxes that only contained the movie. I hate paying full price for a movie, opening it, and then only finding a flyer (or nothing) inside to keep the disc company. Especially when the disc is stamped with a only a title. Those are the movies to buy digitally. Movies with nice boxes or booklets or collections editions got to remain whole. Games where another story. I threw away every case, but kept every book.
I don't mind the binders. But they suffer from out-of-sight-out-of-mind syndrome. I hardly open up the cases to get out movies, music, or games. While those that still have a physical presence on my shelves will get watched. Those artifacts are conversation pieces for my wife and I, or for when friends come over. You asked about my daughter. I have started putting out movies because I want her to look at the case and ask to watch it or at least ask me to tell her what it is about. Same with other media. I want her to explore the physical space of my shelves and wonder what each item contains. Just like walking the bookstore. You walk past that one book for the 10th time and finally decide to pick it up. Unfortunately, what is true of the binders (for me) is also true of digital media. It's not there. I don't see it, people don't ask about it, my daughter does not wonder what it is.
Books and Music
I do go digitally for music... kind of. I love Amazon's autorip. I have a ton of unopened CDs that I listen to all the time. I give the CDs away as gifts, or keep them. If I really like an album, I may buy the record. A larger representation, never to listen to, but always a conversation piece. I also take advantage of the promo dollars from Amazon. Especially by choosing slow shipping via prime (though lately it has been 5 bucks of pantry items). I also go digital when it is cheaper (most of the time). 5 dollar Amazon albums are great. Authors are starting to put up .99 short stories that are not commonly available in binding. Series authors offer the first one for free at times.
I also prefer reading on my Kindle more than reading the new ergonomic paperbacks. I hate those tall little bastards. I hate how how I have to pay an extra buck or two so that I can hate how they feel in my hand :-).
I never would have bought a Kindle. My wife got me one. It broke a few years later and Amazon offered me 30 bucks off a new one (since my model was WAY out of production). I picked up a Fire super discounted and used more credit to basically get the thing for $15. I really like reading comics on it. The color is vibrant, and I don't have to worry about messing up the pages. As for my daughter and the Kindle, I kind of bought it for her. Yeah, I encouraged her to be digital. But not only digital. That is where this whole episode started. I could never be all one or the other; I don't think Joe needs to go to one extreme or the other. Especially when it comes to movies. That seems to be your passion.
Daughter
So I put Kindle Free Time on the my new device. My daughter played with it for an hour and discovered a bunch of stuff. She prefers to play with my iPod because I load it with a bunch of short videos. She is learning to take pictures and video. I want her to be a digital native, but also understand the joys of the analog world. She doesn't try to swipe and tap the TV any more at least. I think at this point, she does not see the digital world and analog worlds as different things. They just are. She 'read's books. She gets one beginning reader every time we go to our local bookstore. She walks in, pets the dog, then heads to the spinner to look for something Star Warsy or one of the National Geographic/DK animal books. When it's time to call grandma she grabs the iPod for facetime. She knows that "Pony Girls" is best watched on the big TV, but that the iPod also has random videos on there. She knows if she holds a button long enough, she can drive daddy crazy by deleting his apps. She is confused as to why daddy's iPod's screen is busted into a million pieces and does not understand how much she has contributed to that. Cases are for keeping the glass in, not for show.
Artifacts
Now that I have a big house I intend to live in for a long time, I miss all that stuff I sold. I don't mind the stuff I gave away because it got passed on, but I would rather have the stuff than the money now. The memories are still there, but the items themselves evoke (invoke?) the good times attached to them. I even started rebuying stuff from ebay to try to fill out and rebuild old collections.
That should be enough eye-candy for now. My lunch is almost over anyway. Joe, you like to talk about movies. Keep the physical stuff that is meaningful to you, so that later in life you can look at the shelf and talk about it with folks or so that when you and Kaleb figure out how to produce a child together, you can tell little Ghibli about the movies s/he asks about.
Moving
When I moved out of my parents house (rather late in life), I knew I could not take all my books. Games and movies were not a problem (yet). I went eBay crazy. I started selling really valuable (economically and personally) stuff and giving other things away. There was a point where the item was worth more to me than the money, so I did keep a lot of my books. I ended up selling board games and AD&D stuff.
Once I was settled in my apartment, I felt fine. I had some good artifacts especially considering the minimum amount space available for said artifacts. A couple of years went buy, I got more stuff. Then came the Year of Four Moves! Each move, I ditched about half my stuff. Movies and games were a problem this time. I did do the CD binder thing. But I only did that for boxes that only contained the movie. I hate paying full price for a movie, opening it, and then only finding a flyer (or nothing) inside to keep the disc company. Especially when the disc is stamped with a only a title. Those are the movies to buy digitally. Movies with nice boxes or booklets or collections editions got to remain whole. Games where another story. I threw away every case, but kept every book.
I don't mind the binders. But they suffer from out-of-sight-out-of-mind syndrome. I hardly open up the cases to get out movies, music, or games. While those that still have a physical presence on my shelves will get watched. Those artifacts are conversation pieces for my wife and I, or for when friends come over. You asked about my daughter. I have started putting out movies because I want her to look at the case and ask to watch it or at least ask me to tell her what it is about. Same with other media. I want her to explore the physical space of my shelves and wonder what each item contains. Just like walking the bookstore. You walk past that one book for the 10th time and finally decide to pick it up. Unfortunately, what is true of the binders (for me) is also true of digital media. It's not there. I don't see it, people don't ask about it, my daughter does not wonder what it is.
Books and Music
I do go digitally for music... kind of. I love Amazon's autorip. I have a ton of unopened CDs that I listen to all the time. I give the CDs away as gifts, or keep them. If I really like an album, I may buy the record. A larger representation, never to listen to, but always a conversation piece. I also take advantage of the promo dollars from Amazon. Especially by choosing slow shipping via prime (though lately it has been 5 bucks of pantry items). I also go digital when it is cheaper (most of the time). 5 dollar Amazon albums are great. Authors are starting to put up .99 short stories that are not commonly available in binding. Series authors offer the first one for free at times.
I also prefer reading on my Kindle more than reading the new ergonomic paperbacks. I hate those tall little bastards. I hate how how I have to pay an extra buck or two so that I can hate how they feel in my hand :-).
I never would have bought a Kindle. My wife got me one. It broke a few years later and Amazon offered me 30 bucks off a new one (since my model was WAY out of production). I picked up a Fire super discounted and used more credit to basically get the thing for $15. I really like reading comics on it. The color is vibrant, and I don't have to worry about messing up the pages. As for my daughter and the Kindle, I kind of bought it for her. Yeah, I encouraged her to be digital. But not only digital. That is where this whole episode started. I could never be all one or the other; I don't think Joe needs to go to one extreme or the other. Especially when it comes to movies. That seems to be your passion.
Daughter
So I put Kindle Free Time on the my new device. My daughter played with it for an hour and discovered a bunch of stuff. She prefers to play with my iPod because I load it with a bunch of short videos. She is learning to take pictures and video. I want her to be a digital native, but also understand the joys of the analog world. She doesn't try to swipe and tap the TV any more at least. I think at this point, she does not see the digital world and analog worlds as different things. They just are. She 'read's books. She gets one beginning reader every time we go to our local bookstore. She walks in, pets the dog, then heads to the spinner to look for something Star Warsy or one of the National Geographic/DK animal books. When it's time to call grandma she grabs the iPod for facetime. She knows that "Pony Girls" is best watched on the big TV, but that the iPod also has random videos on there. She knows if she holds a button long enough, she can drive daddy crazy by deleting his apps. She is confused as to why daddy's iPod's screen is busted into a million pieces and does not understand how much she has contributed to that. Cases are for keeping the glass in, not for show.
Artifacts
Now that I have a big house I intend to live in for a long time, I miss all that stuff I sold. I don't mind the stuff I gave away because it got passed on, but I would rather have the stuff than the money now. The memories are still there, but the items themselves evoke (invoke?) the good times attached to them. I even started rebuying stuff from ebay to try to fill out and rebuild old collections.
That should be enough eye-candy for now. My lunch is almost over anyway. Joe, you like to talk about movies. Keep the physical stuff that is meaningful to you, so that later in life you can look at the shelf and talk about it with folks or so that when you and Kaleb figure out how to produce a child together, you can tell little Ghibli about the movies s/he asks about.
