There's a few things that I really like to do that I don't often make time for, and other, easier technologies have started to replace them.
One of these is reading the New York Times on a Sunday. Not the online version, the real thing. Preferably with good company and good coffee.
It's a leftover, I'm sure, from my record store days, but Adam and I went to Amoeba the other night and were both in a sort of giddy fever pitch flipping through the sale vinyl. I once made the mistake of getting rid of all the jewel cases to my cd's. I know it's made moving a lot lighter, but there's something about holding the actual album in your hand that iTunes just can't replicate. Not for better or worse, because I'd rather carry an iPod than lug cd's around, but - still.
Another is going to the movies. Actually GOING. And it's annoying to get there, it's too expensive, the popcorn usually sucks (unless you're at the Red Vic) and usually, nothing good is actually playing. I've probably seen three movies in the past six months, and only because I knew these deserved to be seen on a big screen - King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, and V For Vendetta. All of them awesome. V For Vendetta I saw this weekend, and not only did it totally rock, but it was interesting to hear who in the packed theater got which jokes.
Netflix, iTunes, online papers, craigslist, it's all just so easy now that sometimes I'm amazed that it's really only gelled recently. How did I know anything at all before Google?
Also, while we're making things easy, can I have back Kozmo?