How David Kestenbaum iMet his neighbor on iTunes

RE: #22

I didn't listen to the audio, but going by the lyrics you posted...

It's probably the Tears For Fears song "Mad World" covered by Gary Jules [for the Donnie Darko movie sountrack].

I own the movie and I have a TFF 'best of' CD, so I'm familiar with both versions of the song.

"Did he just happen to have an audio recorder with him when he went to this woman's door or was that a re-enactment? Why would she agree to be recorded if she was reluctant to talk to him anyway?"

yeah, I thought the recorded convo encounter was a bit suspect as well.

This has been driving me crazy, and I hope someone will be good enough to tell me tha name of the artist and the song that David K heard through the wall. It was a piano and voice, lyrics like "Worn out places"..."Daily faces(?)"..."Going nowhere". Sort of a cross between Cat Stevens and The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes". Thank you.

Did he just happen to have an audio recorder with him when he went to this woman's door or was that a re-enactment? Why would she agree to be recorded if she was reluctant to talk to him anyway? And why did it take him months just to check the names in his apartment building (actually his wife did it)? The whole story sounds a little manufactured to me.

I have all the same songs as this guy, except for #5, and they're all rated 5 stars in my collection. He's not as unusual as he might think. He just has good taste. :)

I have met people, myself, when using a public WiFi network in an intentionally and deliberate community venue (MacWorld Expo, Apple Store opening, etc.); and believe it or not, those people I have struck up conversations with (iChat with Rendezvous rocks!) have remained in my Buddy list for years.

I have to admit, that seeing a handful of people available in iChat is not enough impetus to contact each one of them 'just because' they are visible -- that would be tiresome after a while. But it they are visible in both iChat and iTunes, I might be more compelled to see whether I think they're interesting or quite potentially ... not, based on what I think of their musical taste.

Sort of happened to me in college to. Had a few guys knock on my door cuz i had set up a shared folder over the network to obviously share. I didn't end up becoming friends with them but my friend who was there ended up becoming like best friends w/ the guys.

I actually met one of my friends in college through the iTunes library sharing. On this network you could see ALL iTunes shared libraries across the entire campus, so I would usually have around 100 libraries to browse. Some people would put their AIM screen name on in their library title, which is how I got in touch with my new friend.

Most people had your typical college kid mixture of rock, pop, rap, etc, but I was more into electronic music. I can't remember if my friend contacted me or vice versa, but we both had similar music.

What I meant was - his wife was completely wrong for deliberately disabling the firewall.

And it was wrong that NPR or David did not warn listeners that they should not ever drop or turn off their firewalls. They are there for a reason - but most people are unaware if they are on or off or what they are...

Most people I have met, who have wireless connections, do not realize how easy it is to access information off a computer with the firewall off.

NPR used this as feel good piece on the air because lots of people want to social network online but it is not a very responsible of NPR to promote this kind of behavior - ID thieves and those looking for passwords and access to credit card numbers look people who do not have a clue about network security. They are the people that are easy to steal from...

Four years ago I met my better half "on-line" when I was setting up a wireless connection and I repeatedly would connect to another router called "Eve's Garden" instead of my own. It was pissing me off so I left an old-fashioned handwritten message on the bulletin board in the lobby asking whoever owned it to email me. Turns out it was my upstairs neighbor who I had my eye on for a while but never had the courage to go and ask her out. So don't knock it.

P.S.: She's a lifelong Mac-user and I'm a Windows security engineer (so I know how to lock down a router with MAC filtering and WPA-2). Nevertheless I bought a MacBook last summer while we were in Greece celebrating our 40th birthday, so I know I've done at least ONE thing right in my life. Okay, maybe TWO. :-)