I am now one of them. I have resisted getting an ipod for years, mostly because I find it kind of crazy that there is no way to input data without transferring files from a computer.
I have been tempted repeatedly, mostly by the shiny black video ipods and nanos. The screen size of the video ipods seem a little small for watching videos. Better to wait for the iPhone. 🙂 The nanos are harder to resist. I don’t need one. I have a palm pilot that does everything a nano can do and more. Still, I see them in the store and want one every time. Marketing genius.
It is likely that I will eventually get an iPhone. I will try to wait for version 2.0 when the initial bugs and annoyances have been worked out. The iPhone screen is a better size for video, not to mention the million other things it does. But it is crazy expensive, not even including whatever monthly fee there will be to use all of its features.
Yesterday morning, I finally found the excuse I was looking for. I was geeking around the internet and reading about an applescript that syncs yojimbo items with ipods. All you have to do is add the tag ‘ipod’ to the yojimbo item. Pretty cool. I use Yojimbo all the time.
The final straw was my non-empty bank account. A rare and beautiful thing. I have some extra cash because of having so many jobs lately. Go figure. I think it was burning a hole in my pocket even though it wasn’t even in my pocket.
I got the red one because part of the money gets donated to some global stop AIDS in Africa organization. I am not sure why anyone would not get the red one if it came in the configuration that they were looking for. I liked the green one best though.
I have been having fun with it. Synced all of my data of course: calendars, contacts, notes. Added some music because I think it is illegal to have an ipod without music on it. A random itunes playlist, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon
, a podcast of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 Conference, and Blood and Smoke, a Stephen King audio book. Now if only I can figure out how to keep these damn earbuds in my ears!
hee hee you’re a pod person 🙂 So Invasion of the Body Snatchers which btw is being remade yet again…
Just remember to pause the music before you speak. I hate Ipod screamers.
i smiled, immediately. yes! you’ve succumbed! you’re now one of us!
now i just need to hook you onto the joy of sound isolating earphones. (sinister laugh)
my sweetie: I can’t believe there will be another one. I liked the first two very much. I never even saw the 1993 version. In the new one, the pod people come from the real person’s ipod. Only the people without ipods are left to save humanity. There are only 3 of them, but they win because the pod people couldn’t hear them coming.
Big White Hat: I PROMISE NOT TO SCREAM!!! Sorry, couldn’t resist 😉 Pause = good.
d: mmmm… sound isolating earphones 🙂 Could be dangerous though, since I already don’t know what is going on around me half the time! Lucky for me I have a sound isolating brain.
my gods, what i would GIVE for a sound isolating brain. once you patent it, let me know.
I. must. resist. assimilation.
First sign of assimilation: conversing. like. a. robot.