Interviews

Oh, the wonders of technology. I am really quite pleased with myself at the moment. On Monday, Phillip and I had out last observation of the Boy Scouts, and so we did our interviews. We had no plan to record them, we were just going to rely on frantic note taking. But on the way out the door I had a last minute notion and decided to grab the headphones that came with my iPod touch because they have a microphone in them.

As if I needed one more thing to add to the list of why that thing is awesome. So not only can I record interviews for my English paper, I can check my email, use it as an alarm clock (I use the Duck quacking noise, it really gets you up in the morning); I have an app with the top 100 primary documents in American history (history nerd!); it has a dictionary and a thesaurus, and it plays music. Seriously, it's probably the best purchase I've ever made, aside from my camera. And my wool socks, those were an excellent purchase.

But my point is that it was a slick as pressing record, pressing stop, plugging in the iPod, playing the little QuickTime file, and typing it up word for word. I feel much more confident in the outcome of the paper with some good, solid quotes.