What Do You Love, and How Do You Know?

September 24, 2012 4 Comments

coffee stain music note

I’m looking for some perspective.

We all have things we enjoy doing. Hobbies, activities, whatever. Some of us are lucky enough to do our favorite things for money, supposedly. And some people have an incredibly long list of things they’re absolutely passionate about.

But I sometimes find myself having trouble naming those things that I like doing. Some of the things I rattle off don’t seem like much fun at that moment; am I repeating them out of habit, or because I think they make me sound cool, or what? Do I really enjoy any of them for their own sake? Would I enjoy other things I haven’t tried, or haven’t invested the time to learn about properly? Do I only really enjoy kind of dull things?

I sometimes fear I am unable to take an accurate stock of my own interests. So I thought I’d ask anyone reading: what do you love, and more importantly, how do you know? What makes your favorite hobby worth doing? Why do you do what you do? Leave a comment with your answer, or write your own blog and link your answer, or write to me privately if you’re shy about being frank.

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New Smartphones, Carrier Wars, and Apps to Defeat Drudgery

September 21, 2012 1 Comment

Once again, it’s been a busy few weeks.

 

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New Hippo Techie: Adapterphenia

September 20, 2012 Leave a Comment

Yes, yes, new iPhone, yada yada. By the time this column is published, news of the super-amazing iPhone 5 will be a week old, and anyone desperate for information will have already found it. Bigger screen, whoopdidoo. Thinner design, yay.

There is one thing I want to talk about: the new iPhone’s new connector. Rather than use the same venerable Dock Connector that’s been on all previous iPhones and on iPods since 2003, Apple chose to create a brand new proprietary port called Lightning. It’s smaller, which it allegedly needed to be to accommodate the thinner and lighter casing, and has fewer pins.

Read the complete article at The Hippo.

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Video: “Guess I Miss(ed) You” by The Daylights

September 18, 2012 3 Comments

Ever get a song so stuck in your head that you had to learn it? And then video yourself playing it and throw it online? Sometimes that happens to me.

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New Hippo Techie: Tablet tableau

September 13, 2012 Leave a Comment

Last week, Amazon announced a bunch of new hardware all at once. Pretty much their whole Kindle line got refreshed, e-readers and tablets both. Rumors of a Kindle phone proved false, for now, but the sheer number of new gadgets kind of made up for that.

Read the complete article at The Hippo.

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