If anyone around you has an iPhone, the free Midomi app does just that. You sing into it, and it finds the song. Sometimes, it seems like magic. :-) (Not so much, though, when you're a programmer and you have a pretty good idea on how it's done.)

It's not that they can't read, they just don't. They are a bunch of TV addicts, mostly much older than me (in their 50's and 60's). My friends my age (I'm 35) are too busy drinking, working, and playing video games. Of course, that's not all of my friends. Two of my friends are published writers (and I am as well), and one of them is actually an award winning writer, and they are both readers. My best friend and I discuss books all the time, though we like very different things. He's more a short story anthology person, and I'm more a novel person.

modified on Friday, January 18, 2008 11:05:24 AM

Most people I know just don't read, or if they do, they read mind numbing best sellers. I generally read a book a week. That's actually way down from when I was a teenager, when I read 3 a week (when I had no life). I also read a bunch of magazines and online articles. It helps that I read very fast with full comprehension. Most of what I read is fiction, but not all of it. I read technical manuals, of course, and history. Every once in awhile I'll pick up something unusual, like a biography or a graphic novel. I tend not to discuss books with most of my friends, since barely 50% of them actually even read the news on a daily basis.