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I just finished reading For Fuck’s Sake by Robert Lasner. It has generally been lauded. I thought it was OK. Maybe I’m unnecessarily critical, since one of my fantasies has been to write a book of my own, and whenever I read the work of one of my alleged peers who has been critically acclaimed, I always unjustifiably think to myself that I could do better, or at least just as good. (Ask me just exactly how much I’ve written. Go on.)

Anyway, it was somewhat refreshing, though a little disturbing, to find a guy writing about the absurd neuroses that fill his mind while pursuing a woman romantically. This is the kind of shit that I’ve always been told impugns my manhood. That real men don’t think about this shit, that I’ve got to get a hold of my balls and take charge. Right.

Still, this machismatic message (holy crap, maybe my mind is really scrambled, but I had a tough time deciding whether I should write machismo or masochism. Although, in any culture imbued with Catholicism, they somehow amount to the same thing…) has etched itself into my brain, assimilated into my superego, recorded onto my “parent” tapes. Resulting in the catastrophe that is my love life, no doubt.

For Fuck’s Sake is disturbingly, depressingly too much like my life, except that I don’t have any of the sex. (In the same way that The House of God is like my career, except that I don’t have any of the sex.)

So yeah, ladies, guys actually do think about this kind of crap. Unfortunately, if I’m any barometer on the issue, these same guys are usually very undatable.

Let me write this down before I forget about it, but you know what would be really cool? Stackable iPods. An option to daisy chain multiple iPods via Firewire and have the firmware regard them as a single unit. So that you could walk around with iPods strapped to your belt like so many packages of C4, with enough music to let you walk from NYC to L.A. without having to hear a single track twice. What’s the URL to Apple’s suggestion box, now?

On a related note, instead of Firewire, maybe they could just build in 802.11g or something like that. So you don’t have to wear the aforementioned belt of iPods when you just wanted to stroll around or something, but then when you got into your car, with an iPod network sitting in your trunk, you could have all 3 million of your songs at your disposal.

Of course, I have no idea what sort of latency this would impose. I mean, sometimes my 2nd generation completely full 20 GB iPod stalls when trying to scan for the next mp3 to play, so who knows what sort of delays you might have to deal with if you had 10 iPods networked together. But then again, people are willing to deal with the delays involved with a CD changer, so how bad could it be?

With the 802.11g option, though, I imagine we’d be dealing with a hell of a lot of RF interference. Maybe you’d have to use Bluetooth?

Well, I am not an engineer. Go to it, boys and girls.