Hell, when I was young we had to go visit someone who had somekind of 
instrument....  Two sticks as I recall, we all had to go over to his tree.

Bruce Dayton wrote:
> I think this phenomenon is more with the younger set.  Where I live,
> most of the book stores have gone out of business - just Borders is
> left and an odd store here and there.  They all seem to sell more
> music, videos and gifts than they do books, though.
> 
> It is even in the technology.  When we were younger, you had to listen
> to music on either tape or vinyl records.  The means of skipping
> around between songs was clumsy at best.  So we mostly listened to the
> whole thing once started.  With the advent of CD players and now
> Ipods, it is very interesting to watch the young ones.  They switch
> between songs constantly and rarely listen to the whole song - just
> catching the 20-30 seconds that is really 'cool' to them.  Sound
> bites online and on cell phones, video clips online and on ipods, all
> encourage short 'bursts' of information.  Since this goes on pretty
> heavily, making your burst stand out is tricky.
> 
> Food for thought.
> 

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