Sunday was spent mostly doing homework, downloading uni readings, taking notes and working on assignments. What online media I did consume was mostly for education and entertainment.

RSS

In the morning I went through my RSS feeds (in the Mac RSS reader called Reeder) and cleared out a backlog of around 180 articles that were unread. Around 20 items were saved to my Instapaper queue for future reading, one video post was starred to watch later, and the rest I skimmed through and marked as read. RSS, along with Facebook, is one of the major ways I keep in touch with the things I’m interested in online: blogs, news sites, writers I follow, etc. I often go days or weeks at a time without looking at RSS, though, and thus have to periodically do a big clean-out of everything in my feeds, which is what I did today.

Netflix

In the evening my girlfriend and I sat down with dinner and watched the two new Dave Chappelle comedy specials that were recently added to Netflix. I’ve been looking forward to these specials since they were announced months ago, and Sunday night was the first chance I got to watch them. Watching Netflix over dinner is something we do very regularly, probably 5-6 times a week, as we’re big movie/TV buffs and like to keep up with new television like Westworld, Game of Thrones, etc..

Bandcamp

Last week I received an email from Kickstarter informing me that a project I backed (a new album from the Sydney band sleepmakeswaves) had been fulfilled and I could download their album from Bandcamp using a download key. I didn’t get around to actually downloading the album until Sunday, but I immediately added it to my iTunes, synced it to my phone, and then played it in the kitchen while I was cooking dinner. Part of the reason I listened to the album immediately is that sleepmakeswaves are friends of mine and I wanted to be able to share my thoughts on the album with them.

Whenever I listen to music on my phone, the app Last.fm keeps track of each track I play and saves it to my profile.