Nerdvana
February 8th, 2009
I have reached a new level of laziness that I never thought possible.
As I write this, I’m sitting in my family room grading my latest project. I’m not the type to listen to music when I do stuff, rather I’m more of the type to throw on a movie I’ve seen a thousand times as background noise. I had just finished one through the XBox Netflix streaming, so I hopped on netflix.com to find something new to watch.
After poking around for a bit, I decided to throw on Matrix Reloaded. One click to add it to my instant watch queue. About 30 seconds later, my XBox beeped and I looked up to see it sitting in my queue menu. I pressed the play button on the controller and no more than 10 seconds later, it was streaming to my TV in full HD glory.
That is some seriously cool technology right there. To my students who don’t yet know what it takes for a packet to actually make it to its destination, realize it’s a freakin’ miracle that we can send a simple e-mail, much less stream gigabytes of data without pausing every 3 seconds.There’s just one problem with this whole scenario.
I already own Matrix Reloaded on DVD.
It’s in my house. I can see the door to the closet in which we keep the DVDs from where I’m sitting. I consciously decided that clicking a few buttons far outweighed my lack of desire to stand up and walk 10 feet to get the DVD and put it on.
Now if I could just figure out a way to not have to get up to go to the bathroom…
