No, it's true. They fall out. When I run, I hold the cord up high so it doesn't pull, and I still need to push them back in from time to time.

I know people, including b_b, who can't even get them to stay in for any length of time. They aren't shaped well for everyone's ears.

It might seem weird because they might fit your ears well.

Actually, you are full of shit.

Wired headphones are great if you want to hear your music. Bluetooth is great if you want it to cut out every ten minutes, or every time you touch the volume control, or every time you get a phone call, or every time the moon is in aquarius. Bluetooth is also great if you want your headphones to run out before your phone, or if you want a device that can discharge in a drawer because you haven't used it in a week, or because your car was too hot.

Let's talk about ADC connectors.

That's apple eliminating the "required" power and USB cables in an effort to "move technology forward." But as it turns out, you can't spit a monitor's worth of power down 30-gage wiring and USB interferes with high-bandwidth video. Six years of that bullshit - it came out the same time as the G4 Cube's magical mystical "electrical disturbances cause me to power down" capacitive power switch.

Hey, how 'bout the Dock Connector?

Yeah. Apple's "universal" connector includes bidirectional audio, two flavors of analog video, 3.3V DC power, 5V DC power, 12V DC power, Firewire data, USB data and two channels of serial control. All to guarantee that if you actually want to interface with any of that shit, you have to suck down Apple's proprietary connector.

Know what I use? Koss fitclips. Know why? cuz I sweat them out every six weeks. Which is fine 'cuz they cost $14 and don't require a fucking ADC to listen to music. And I'm not even listening to music most of the time - I'm listening to 128k audiobooks. FUCK fidelity I want something that I can wrap around the goddamn spokes and not give a shit about. And that's what I got. I also like being able to buy charging cables two for a dollar off Amazon.

But I got the fuck out of Apple three years ago.

"Consistently right."

Yeah - all headphones consistently suck... but only Apple will charge you $169 for them.

Jogging with apple earbuds is the worst. They fall out every eight steps and then your sweat soaks into the mic and kills them permanently. It's spectacular. Now you don't need to worry about that because they'll fall into a puddle long before...

actually, watch this space. I bet within two months someone is making an iSweatband that goes around your head to keep your fucking earbuds in your ears.

I know goobster is an OG Burner from what I've read thus far, and elizabeth just recently went to one. In fact, she did a vlog on it. Let me pull up the post, there's an article somewhere from the goob himself linked about his time with Burners.

This is why you must sign up for Apple Music.

Because things won't get truly shitty until you're paying a recurring fee to house your music on someone else's server.

And it plays fucking FLAC (Not a phone though)

I'm happy to mock Apple's latest bollocks, but then I made fun of the iPod when it came out because it was just an expensive MP3 player. I don't think I was wrong, but it sure made Apple a lot of money. Then I made fun of the iPad when that came out and I really was wrong there. I think tablets are very handy now. So even though I won't stop making fun of Apple's overpriced flapdoodle, history hasn't been on my side so far.

The guys that founded this company must be brilliant, handsome and amazing gents.

I confirm they absolutely are!

I'm envisioning tng saying this while looking into a mirror and smiling ear to ear.

I arrived Sunday at 4am and was way too excited to set up camp, so I biked into the open playa where all the art installations were located. I found an octopus sculpture which had a couch nearby. On the couch was a box with pendants engraved with an octopi. As I was sifting through the pendants, deciding which one I wanted, a woman biked by and I waved her down. She climbed on top of the octopus, and I followed her up. We chatted for a while, and I learned she was Australian (I later learned that a lot of Austrailians go to Burning Man).

As we were chatting, the sun was starting to poke up over the mountains. Once the sun had just finished showing itself, the Austrailian and I looked at each other, and kissed. We sat in silence for a little while longer and then biked our separate ways.