electric relaxation

Two ideas for applications that I think I would find useful, though I’ll probably be too lazy to ever write them:

1. Automatically guided media purchases
   The basic idea would be to have a service which automatically spends money out of a dedicated/auto-debited account with a preset limit. The funds are spent on a selection of movies, music, TV shows etc. You could control the ratio of how you spend your dollars and/or how you want your content composed; e.g. $20/mth on stuff my friends liked, $20/mth on what Pitchfork thinks is hot shit, and $20/mth on Amazon recommendations. This makes the most sense to me when combined with actual ownership a la iTunes, but I suppose the selection is really the point so it could be just as useful as a set of filters on top of say Rhapsody. Actually, I think you could do this just for Kindle books, like guided Kindle purchases. I wonder if Amazon has thought of this already.
   
2. Automatic lyric quoting via Last.fm/Scrobbling + some lyrics service
   I don’t know if there are any good free lyrics services out there; I assume there’s some decent freetard one. So the idea here would be to just have a Facebook app that automatically updates your status with quotes from songs you’re listening to in realtime. Basically automating what I do with my Facebook status by hand. Yes, I am that lazy.

I tried a few boxes in the terrain park at Heavenly today. Nailed the first two, they were nice and wide with an easy lead up so this was no big achievement, more of just breaking down a psychological barrier. On the third one I went for the grind; didn’t really end up as impressive as I was hoping but I didn’t eat it. 

For an encore, the next time through I went for airtime, hit two big jumps in a row and then with my confidence at an all-time high, I tried to go for a 180 transfer off the side of another jump. That ended badly. I’m real glad I wear a helmet. Also my tongue has a welt on it from where I bit down at impact, so I’ll be sucking on ice for a day or so.