Modern vs. Classic

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/technology/personaltech/24basics.html?ref=technology
Spring Cleaning- Gadgets you should get rid of(or not)
By: Sam Grobart
March 23, 2011

Right off the bat this article reminds me of the newest Best Buy commercial, because being the tech savy, somewhat greedy human beings that most if not all of us are we want the newest things. Anyway this article is not what I thought it would be. To be completely honest I though it was a guide not only of what you should get rid of but what you shouldreplace. Big whoop I geuss, I don't see the point of getting rid of anything, it will eventually come back to popularity, that holds true to clothes I'm sure the same will hold true for technology.

The things you should supposedly get rid of are:

• Your Desktop Computer
• Cable TV(maybe)
• Point and Shoot Camera (which only applies to certain people)
• Camcorder(same as point and shoot)
• USB Thumb Drive(totally disagree)
• Digital Music Player(why? I will never understand why you should get rid of this.)
• The reasoning is that you can use your smart phone for the same use. However in my experience smart phones are not as sturdy as I-pod( case and point my ipod touch vs. my dads smart phone. He's had to replace it twice. I still have the same ipod not matter how many times I dropped it)
• GPS

So if you crace popularity go ahead and through all those things away. I guess. Like I said I don't see the point of getting rid of anything. It will be retro and popular soon enough.

Other things on the list. The things you should keep are:

• High speed internet
• Cable Tv(again a maybe)
• Alarm Clock(at least based onthe glitch the I-phone has with daylight saving time)
• Books(very shocking)
• Like I said very shocking with all the e books and other technological things out now. But hey books will always be popular with me.

The Start Of It All

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=magazine
James Patterson Inc.
By:  Jonathan Mahler
Jan 20, 2010

So Jame Patterson, whats to like about him? Whats not to like about him? Personally I like him, he isn't my favorite auther, per se, but he is inthe top twenty. Not that youmay care but its twenty for a reason, I read so many books that I forget names. Any who back to James Patterson. This nine page article is all about him, how he got started, what issues he had to face, his family, how much money he has made and is making and of course why he does it. Well if that isn't a stupid question I don't know what is. People do what they do for three basic reasons most times; Money, for the love of it, or because they're forced. In his case its the money and ofr the love of it. He wants  to be well known, but of course he has to provide for his wife and son. Between me and you I feel as if he's pretty well known but not in the way he wants to be. But then again what famous purpose is well known the way they want to be?

That is neither here or there, personally I like James Patterson for his books about Michael Bennett (Step on a Crack, Worst Case, Run for Your Life and most recently Tick Tock ) all co written by Michael Ledwidge. He has literally written hundreds of books varying from suspense, to young adult and even to romance. Much to the dismay of his publisher, at least in the begining, and as far as I know and can tell, James Patterson is the most innovative author, from coming up with the idea to have a tv commerical for his books( Along Came a Spider, Step on a Crack, Private, Swimsuit, and Tick Tock, as far as I have seen) to writing multiple books at the same time, constantly keeping his titles at the fronts of bookstores. Then again I'm not very open when it comes to books. I'm totally a 'judge a book by its cover' person, or by ear.

And again I digress, bottom line you should attempt one of James Patterson's novels, I don't care if you hate reading or if you love. He wants to make reading easier for those who viewed reading chore in school. (Page 3 and qouted below)

Patterson quickly turned Alex Cross into a booming franchise, encouraging Little, Brown to unify the series with a single jacket style — shiny, with big type and bold, colorful lettering — and titles drawn from nursery rhymes (“Kiss the Girls,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,” “The Big Bad Wolf”), with their foreboding sense of innocence interrupted. “Jim was sensitive to the fact that books carry a kind of elitist persona, and he wanted his books to be enticing to people who might not have done so well in school and were inclined to look at books as a headache,” Kirshbaum says. “He wanted his jackets to say, ‘Buy me, read me, have fun — this isn’t “Moby Dick.” ’ ”

Well thats all for now, till I find an interesting article.