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Truly On Demand

And that's the way we like it, right? The thing about NetFlix and Blockbuster and all the other ways you can rent movies aside from iTunes is that it isn't realy on demand. When I decide I want to watch a movie, I could be in any mood. Drama or independent or just a tear jerky lame movie meant to stir the emotions. The thing about iTunes is, I can say gee I want to watch a movie, check out what they got and download what I want in that moment. No forecasting for Sunday or maybe if I decide to watch two.

The Son and I are on our own this weekend. Indian Princesses are in Catalina. He had a baseball game today. Two and half hours. I took about 200 pictures with my new lens. It isn't a great lens but it is definitely better for baseball. It was so cold outside my hands were numb when I was done. I was looking through the lens at one point and a baseball literally grazed my shin. Everyone was yelling Heads Up! but I didn't realize they were talking to me. Doh.

The Son's friend is here tonight and they are playing an online game together. Earlier this morning, they called each other while they were playing the game to talk about what they were doing in the game. This is because the game disallows personal conversations. You can only say a certain set of canned words to each other. It's remarkable the social interaction when they do it together. This includes break dancing to the wierd song by Wierd Al that is the theme song of something or other, running around in circles following by squeals and bursts of hysterical laughter.

I want to be truly on demand. I want to be able to demand what I want to do in any moment and just do it.

Comments

societally speaking, if one desires/expects to be able to demand on demand, is there a quid pro quo of demand response that is required for it to work? if so, is DOD (demand on demand) worth the cost?

We don't rent movies anymore. For a while it was because we never returned them & got lots of fees. Then I went through a period of buying what looked good from the pre-watched discount bins, but ended up never watching most of them.

On demand is the way to go.

For movies at least ;)

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