{"id":3430,"date":"2011-04-28T02:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2011-04-28T02:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:42:31","slug":"pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2011\/04\/28\/pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, I played a little Orisinal game<\/a> that would, for lack of a better term, temporarily rewire my brain. I’d play it for a while, but when I was done, I found that I couldn’t use a computer. I’d see a pattern on a webpage and try to circle it. I’d talk to someone and be really distracted by their eyes and how I could circle them. And then someone else would walk by and I’d want to circle the two people side-by-side. Eventually the compulsion subsided, until I played the game again.<\/p>\n

Pandora has really done the same for me in life. (For the uninitated, Pandora streams music, and allows you to thumbs-up or thumbs-down songs. It learns your preferences and plays music to suit. My Daft Punk-based station became absurdly good, to the point that I started a second Tumblr blog<\/a> just to reference the awesome songs I was finding through it.)<\/p>\n

I have recently found, with great disappointment, that Pandora currently cannot improve the following areas of my life:<\/p>\n