Watch that video. Lord have mercy, but I am too old for this.
I was out walking with my two younger children this weekend. We passed an antiques store that had a box of 45rpm records out on the sidewalk for sale.
“Look, Nora,” seven-year-old Lucas said to his sister. “Those are the ancestors of CDs.”
He wasn’t trying to be funny. He really thought he was looking at a fossil. I’d showed the kids some of my old 45s a couple of years ago while we were down visiting my folks a couple of years ago, and they couldn’t believe that music used to come from those things.
And you know, if it weren’t for the CD player in the minivan, I wonder if these kids would ever see CDs anymore. We never got around to hooking our speakers up to the CD player when we moved from Dallas. We get all our in-house music from an iPod connected to a kind of jambox. The sound is not nearly as good as what we had before, but our apartment is small, and it’s been good enough.
I told Nora the other morning, “Honey, don’t bother Daddy now. Can’t you see I’m reading the newspaper?”
“No you’re not,” she said. “You’re reading your iPad.” She was, um, right. But so was I. Strange times.
(H/T: Deacon Greg Kandra)
Rod,
First, let me start by saying that’s a adorable video. Babies are adorable under nearly all circumstances, but especially when they’re playing with strange new objects, and that baby is especially cute.
Having said that, when I saw this video yesterday, I checked out the original link on Youtube. Some of the folks in the comments thread (yeah, I know), were saying that this might not be anything conscious on the part of the baby at all. Babies like playing with things, they touch and prod nearly everything, particularly with bright pictures, and so it’s quite possible that the mom just edited out some particulalry amusing pictures and added some words to provide a ‘story’ for what baby was doing. It’s not necessarily true that the baby thinks the magazine is an IPad, it’s quite possible this is just the effect of selective editing.
As for CDs, yeah, I mostly listen to ITunes on my computer now, though I still do listen to a lot of CDs (and the radio) in my car. (I drive a fair amount for work, so i get to listen to a lot of radio). I’m also one of those few people who still listens to occasional tapes (and I used to make & listen to my own mix tapes, as late as 2003 or so).