iPod Heaven

[tinhuviel]

Why o why did I wait so long to get an iPod? I dashed to Ingles to pick up some cat food and cheese sticks and took the little critter with me to see how it would do in the car. I hooked it up to the FM tuner and VOILA! Music! An abundance of music! I was flabbergasted, taken aback, and bumfuzzled all at once! So, when I got to Ingles, I put the iPod in my pocket and tried out the ear buds. Duuuuuude........just...DUUUUUUUDE! People in the grocery store were looking at me as I be-bopped to Faithless, then Queen, then Talitha MacKenzie, etcetera etcetera. I can't imagine my world without an MP3 player now. I'm so easily converted, yes, it's true. But...dude. I'm amazed. And happy. I can carry all my music and all of Aunt Tudi's music everywhere we go. And our pictures too. We can have a portable photo album.

My only complaint with the iPod is my own aging fault. I've lost it in the house 3 times today. It's easy to misplace, being so small. Apple needs to make a Clapper version of the iPod, so old geezers like myself can just clap our hands and the iPod will beep or toot or something so we can follow the sound and locate our beloved little MP3 player. Since I'm obviously a drooling vegetable in the making, I imagine that I'd be tottering around the house clapping more often than not.

**EDIT**
Oh, and I've named my iPod, just like blueskywonder did with hers. I dubbed him iGore, to honour Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, and Apple (bless!). So, iGore, meet the world! World, meet iGore! All future iPod posts will sport my EYEGORE icon.

Comments

[brujah.livejournal.com]

You need a pair of these.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. But I doubt I could find any that would fit me.

[ex-glittert.livejournal.com]

ooo, do i get the dude too? :D

Clapper versions

[spencer-diehard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we need "clapper" versions for the TV remote, glasses, car keys, wireless phone... Those "little things" we can't live without, and also can't seem to keep track of...

A few years back I thought up the notion they should create an artificial Christmas tree that has built in lights, so you don't have to do that --- and now, voila! they have them. (They are boring, still, but I'm sure they'll get more colorful/elaborate in time...)

Finding things is an issue --- I don't think it's about age, 'cause the kids lose things as fluently as I do, but it's an issue.

Re: Clapper versions

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Those fiber-optic trees are pretty groovy, though. The best of Christmas combined with the best of the early 70s. Pretty damned cool, man.

YOU LISTEN TO LOREENA MCKENNITT???????

[trelina.livejournal.com]

Soul sister!!!! I think I love you!

I introduced some friends of mine at work to The Book of Secrets last year (or maybe the year before, its so hard to keep track these days) and, while they all agreed that she "sings pretty" they weren't nearly as impressed as I was...until I forced them all to listen to it again, alone, in private. Now, they are full on converts.

I am secretly planning a belly dance routine to Marco Polo...um...you know, when I become a real belly dancer.

Re: YOU LISTEN TO LOREENA MCKENNITT???????

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

It boggles my mind that not everyone loves Loreena.

[silent-druid.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way when i got my iPod. I especially enjiy the "shuffle" function :D

Mine doesnt work properly at the moment, though, i need to format/ reinstall my computer which im not doing until i buy a new hard drive because i dont think this old one will take it again!!

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Poor duck. I've been there before, once with my 8MB, then with my 64MB, and then again with the 128 MP. It's maddening.

[silent-druid.livejournal.com]

Yup... Mark has his eye on a 200 GB hard drive (thankfully because he runs a computer company he gets these things at trade prices!) which i cant ever imagine filling up!

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

iPods rule. We got a car adapter for ours and have our entire music collection on it so we had abundant music on our Mega Road Tripz0r of DOOM.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

That's the main reason I wanted one. I told Aunt Tudi we were gonna have to make a 36 hour road trip just to test iGor out.

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I've named my iPod, just like [info]blueskywonder did with hers.

We named ours as well. Ours is named Sephiroth.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Classy!

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I lived without the tiny iPod ("Draco") that is my pride and joy. I'm considering upgrading, though, now that they've got the snazzy video iPods.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Draco, eh? After the little Malfoy?

[emerald-ibis.livejournal.com]

Yes. I gave it that name based on the fact that it is silver and vaguely evil. Though, I'm beginning to think that "evil" should be replaced with "skewed." Lately, when set to shuffle, Draco will inevitably play "The Internet is for Porn" in the first ten songs.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Heh! Thank you!

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

My iPod is named Persephone. Because she is a godess, and I didn't like the name of the muse of music.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Wasn't she Terpsichore?

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Nope, not me. I have been too addicted to the pomegranate to consider anything other than muses or Persephone.

[falkenna.livejournal.com]

[nuzzles up to everyone in mutual MP3 love]

Well, now that you've taken my suggestion and named yours, and I've read everyone else's names, I've decided on Orpheus for mine. And when I upgrade, it will still be Orpheus. (I toyed with Cygnus, but decided to go straight to the root. And to spell it the conventional way.)

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

::Cadmus' eyes widen in disdain::

heheheheheh