Papa’s got a brand new pod!
So some of you who have been in contact with me over the past couple of weeks may have noticed that I’ve been a bit subdued in general, and downright unexuberant at times. I wouldn’t want to claim I was depressed, clinically, but I felt like shit; call it what you will. Upon noticing this trend, Lisa, saint that she is, set about rectifying the situation. As she has pretty much figured me out over the past five years, she realized the problem was not my general anxiety over a lack of direction in my career or my issues about my level of physical fitness. No, rabid materialist pig that I am, the source of my ennui was a pronounced dearth of shiny new gadgets in my life. So she did the unthinkable: she ordered me a brand-new 20GB iPod, for no reason other than to cheer me up. I am now fully in good spirits and travelling in the company of 5,000 of my favorite joints. Pimpin’ ain’t easy, but it’s necessary.
I believe this makes me the first person I know to upgrade from a perfectly working original iPod to the 3rd generation. On this auspicious occasion, I would like to address the troops.
“Now hear this: all ye who would covet a lifestyle replete with gadgetry, know who ye shall follow into the breach of the bleeding edge, to do battle with the forces of good-enoughness and un-dopeness. The new hotness is a glorious burden, but ’tis not for any and all who would take it up. It is a constant struggle against those who are afear’d of that hotness. The Luddite armies are vast and mighty, yet they be fools to a man. Given naught but a bit of old paper, they will be rendered helpless with nostalgia and run off in search of a goose to pluck, so that they may scrawl on the ragged parchment in the manner of their forefathers. Scribbling thusly, they are easily dispatched by an onslaught of New Features and Performance Improvements. Though ye may win some easy battles, know that the war will continue on, until every man, woman and child is awash in power cables and rapidly blinking LEDs. Good luck and God speed.”
evan :: Oct.29.2003 :: Notices :: 4 Comments »
iPods are fun. iPods are cool. They rule! Stay in school!
Much as I tend to follow all of your technologistic and gadgetastic leads in life, me and “Five-Giggy” are still perfectly happy together. Still, congradulations. I know how much this must mean to you.
Yo, I know this may be a little bit “old skool” for you, but what do you think about these topics:
* Gameboy Advance vs Gameboy Advance SP
* Does the Nokia N-Gage stand a chance?
peace, eocs
Interesting you should ask, eocs (you know you’re gonna run out of possible combinations of those four letters soon, right?).
I have but one thought on the Gameboy Advance SP. Finally, they got it right. This is the form factor they should have been using all along. I know they couldn’t do it in the very beginning, but the technology has been around to make a clamshell for some time. The benefits in terms of compactness and screen protection are huge; I think most gadgets should have a clamshell-like form.
As for the N-Gage, there are two things that make it a steaming pile of poo. First, removing the back cover to change the game. That’s just silly, and they’ve known that since the first Game Boy. Second, the obscenely silly way in which it is used as a phone. For people who compulsively carry their Gameboy SP and their cellphone around, yet don’t give a shit about playing slow games on a postage stamp and looking like an asshole when talking on the phone, the N-Gage is the product of the century. As for me, I wouldn’t wipe my ass with it for a sawbuck.