Music. It's all about the technology. Dammit.
I spent years of my youth getting really fast as tranposing parts for brass quintets and string quartets. If you don't know what this is, it's a pretty mechanical/algorithmic, but fiddly, process.

Then some arsehole invented notation software, and they are pretty good at algorithmic processes. Highlight a part, click what instrument it's for, bingo. In less than a second.

Oh, and tuning instruments. I've got a pretty good ear and do this well, but every bugger (including pros - honestly) has a sodding app for that now.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:06, 5 replies)

My father and I are both keen photographers.
We have a running battle about my use of photoshop, however. He does not approve at all.

He happily accepts the irony of using certain filters, and manipulating the equipment in a certain way to get a particular effect, but what can take him a week to set up in terms of waiting for the right time etc I can do in minutes.

He hates that.

I, too, have my burden - a friend on Farcebook has an iPhone with the Hipstamatic app. It's bloody superb, and pisses me off no end. That effect would take me ages to get in tattychop. I don't approve at all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:13, closed)

It's only annoying because
it makes your skill obsolete. Anything that does something you never could is cool, obviously.

At least on the music thing it's occasionally useful mid-gig if a part's gone missing...
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:23, closed)

Perfect pitch will always be superior..
to machinery (hopelessly elitist musical snob speaking). And I transpose by hand as well. You're not the only one! We should have a support group.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 14:08, closed)

On the downside, however...
...genuinely perfect pitch is a bugger if you are:

1) Performing in a venue with an out of tune organ (I remember a recording session once where it wsa nearly a semitone off)

2) Anything baroque being done not at A440.

It's really hard to unhook perfect pitch
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 15:18, closed)

Ugh too right. I specialised in Baroque and Renaissance at college. It hurt much, I had to learn to half turn off my brain and it was all a bit painful. I play at 440 now most of the time!
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 19:58, closed)