azspot:

I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don’t anymore. That’s not to say I don’t listen to MP3s. I have about 10,000 of the little guys squeezed like vienna sausages into my iTunes music folder, and I listen to them a lot. But when I buy music today I buy it on vinyl. I’m no audiophile, no retro hepcat, but my ears tell me that music sounds better on vinyl - warmer, more nuanced, less shrill - and I make it a point to listen to my ears. Also, I’ve rediscovered the pleasures of looking at the art work on record jackets. Thumbnail images are pretty weak substitutes. In fact, they suck.

But the decisive factor in the transformation of my purchasing behavior, as a marketer would say, wasn’t aesthetic. It was the decision by record companies to start giving away a free digital copy of an album when you buy the vinyl version. Hidden inside the sleeve of a new record, like a Cracker Jack prize, is a little card with a code on it that let’s you download the digital files of the songs, often in a lossless format, from the record company. So I no longer have to choose between the superior sound and packaging of vinyl and the superior mobility of digital. When I’m near my turntable, I spin the platter. When I’m not, I fire up the MP3s.

Buy the atoms, get the bits free. That just feels right - in tune with the universe, somehow.

There’s a lesson here, I think, for book publishers. In fact, bundling a free electronic copy with a physical product would have a much bigger impact in the book business than in the music business. After all, in order to play vinyl you have to buy a turntable, and most people aren’t going to do that. So vinyl may be a bright spot for record companies, but it’s not likely to become an enormous bright spot. The only technology you need to read a print book is the eyes you were born with, and print continues, for the moment, to be the leading format for books. If you start giving away downloads with print copies, you shake things up in a pretty big way.

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I enjoyed this immensely.

This is to true for this morning.

(Source: getfitspring2012)

bodyless-soul:

What To Do With Pomegranate:

Pomegranate Roasted Chicken

Roasted Red Pepper & Walnut Dip w/ Pomegranate

Sweet Potatoes w/ Coconut, Pomegranate & Lime

Pomegranate Bulgur Salad

I have like four dying pomegranates left that I desperately need to use.

fit2bhappy:

I didn’t do very good today, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to just give up for the whole week, like I’ve been doing for the last 4 months.

I have to start over. I wish I had a reset button? There’s so much bullshit about food in my head that I’m having a hard time just. Eating. Like. Paleo,…

Check out the book intuitive eating, if not for tips, then for your mental health and clarity!

you can talk the talk, but if you can’t walk the walk…

workingforweightloss:

fitfor2012:

Wait. Bloggers who aren’t licensed dieticians/nutritionists are actually charging for diet plans they’ve made up? Really?

I thought this community was about support, not making money off of possibly desperate ladies and gents trying to lose weight.

I purchased it just to see what it entails and all that she recommends you do, and it basically sounds like you’re starving yourself. Her plan is SO unhealthy, and the fact that she’s selling it, AND she’s not licensed or anything, it worries me. Those girls that have bought it could potentially harm their bodies in more ways than one by doing it once, or doing it repeatedly.

I offer tips and all of that to my followers, free of charge. And that’s how my blog will ALWAYS be.

sadly, it’s a free market and people can sell anything they want as long as there are those willing to buy.  Hopefully the majority will use their heads and not just follow along blindly.

Phew!  Today was hard.  I woke up not knowing what time or day it was.  It threw my entire morning off… and then some.  Still, I woke up finally around 650 and got my head around the fact that yes, today is monday, and yes, it was X2 Core time.

Got downstairs, yawning, and found out that it was tough today on my body to do this workout.  It just felt exhausting.  I got better at a few things, but by the end my shoulder had popped and I was just not feeling it.  Finished and took a quick rinse to head off to boxing.

The owner of the gym taught the class today!  She went over by 20 min, but whatever - she had an AMAZING workout playlist.  I was like “omg, can we start dancing?  cause I totally wanna dance.”  My shoulders and biceps are gonna be sore tomorrow, just in time for plyocide!

Tomorrow I have ALL DAY open, so of course, what do I do?  Schedule two drs appts, a lunch with my mom, a practice jam with my dad, and an 845 “drop it like it’s hot” class at the gym, along with my regular 6 am plyocide deal.  Woohoo!  Can we say dead yet?

just cause hahahah

(Source: girlfriend--material)

Baked Sweet Potatoes ‘Fries’ with Cinnamon and Brown Sugar

(Source: prettybalanced)

healthyalexandria:

myopinionsarefacts:

I put down the fork and picked up a gym membership =]

I’m currently working on losing my last 20 pounds within the next 2 months. 

I typed the date wrong, that should be Jan 2012 Lol my bad!

You’re looking great!

YOU LOOK AWESOME!!!

(Source: findingfitness)