Yesterday I
was hanging out with Madame in the office/playroom – I was organizing a play list
in iTunes and she was hanging out on the play mat – when she got fussy. This is
understandable, because it’s close to bottle time and that play mat thing will
only hold her attention for so long. So I pick her up and put her on my lap to
try to hold her off for another 10 minutes, which only lasts about 20 seconds
before she begins a full-on cry. In desperation I hit the visualizer button on
iTunes and bam! It was like I hit the mute button on my baby.
A common
feature on a lot of media players, the iTunes visualizer is the trippy lines
and shapes generated in sync with the music. I doubt the
people at Apple intended this, but my baby was completely mesmerized. She even
started making her quiet baby talk sounds at it. Obviously this isn’t something
we’re going to do a lot together (will this turn my kid into a zombie?), but I
suppose it’s another thing I can put into my bag of tricks to get the baby to
calm down in a pinch. I wonder if the iPod Photo will output the visualizer to
a TV?
serendipity! I'm home alone today w/ my 7 mo. old son and just got done rigging up an old G3 to play through my TV/Stereo. My son was getting cranky sitting up in his boppy pillow while I was finishing up fiddling with the connections. As soon as I got the iTunes visualizer (and some Mozart) coming through the TV/stereo, he immediately calmed down and was totally absorbed by the visuals.
Now that he's napping I'm googling a bit to see just how safe this miracle drug is and came across your two-day old post ;-) I'm assuming everything in moderation, but if you happen to come across anything that speaks to the safety of this (for or against), pls drop me a line.
Posted by: jim | November 14, 2004 at 12:22 PM
Damn that's crazy
Posted by: Josue Leon | October 23, 2005 at 10:20 PM