cafe notebook culture

Do me a favor. The next time you are in a cafe and there are people on notebooks there, see if they have headphones plugged into the notebook. I don't know if it's just some sort of convergence at this particular SF cafe or I just never noticed before.

Personally, I prefer to think I save some battery life using my small but effective iPod or iPhone for such things rather than doing the notePod thing. It just seems like overkill for listening to digital media in public. I could be completely wrong and am sharing space with a couple of multimedia editors. In that case, I accept that I am an ass and will move on.

Also, spending more time in cafes, I find myself checking out notebook brands in the cafe. Almost keeping score. Yeah, I get really bored and tend not to be as productive as I could be.

I would love to figure out why some people plug in their system as soon as they sit down. I wait until my battery is almost dead. I find it a good indicator of how long I have been somewhere. "My battery is almost dead. Maybe it's time to move the car/go somewhere else."