iPod II: iPod's Revenge....
Like baseball... I had boycott the iPod. It's a great little machine... a handy little piece of work that keeps mp3s and lets you drift happily through your day listening to music. Any music! Because you don't have to change CDs... THEY'RE ON YOUR iPOD!!!!
So my first iPod died. It was very tragic. I remember it. I was walking back from one of my classes on a breeze and cold January day. I tried switching between tracks. I was listening to System of a Down at the time. But I didn't want that track. I wanted the next one. So I hit track over. And it froze. Never to be heard from again. (Get it!? Bad pun!) It had locked up. There was no explaination for it... apple didn't have one. I didn't have one. And it wasn't gonna be replaced (the warranty had expired a few weeks earlier.)
And so my boycott of iPod began. But like a cheating girlfriend... I couldn't stay away. A long summer of listening to a CD player to and from work (a tedious and annoying process) took it's toll... then iPod generation 4 was released... and I decided it was time to set our differences aside and be reunited. I love my music. I love my mp3s and my CDs. iPod is the best solution! So in late July on a brief trip home to Houston... i purchased myself a new iPod. And the world was right again.
But iPod was not through with me. No sir it would have it's last laugh. As I sit here typing this... it's a little past 12am on a Friday night. I'm flying to Rochester tomorrow to visit Mike... and spend a week doing whatever it is we'll be doing. So I figured it's high time to really load up some CDs on this bad boy so I can have it for the trip up and trip back. iPod had other ideas...
Completing a classic rock song list... I was ready to load it up! And load it up I did! But... it only got 36 of the 46 songs! What!? Something was amiss! Windows said something! "Could Not Complete Transfer to G:" What!? iTunes! Talk to me! What's going on!? Why does my iPod say "Do not disconnect still?" But iTunes was silent. iTunes didn't know where the iPod was. So I fled to My Computer. *phew* The iPod was still showing. So I tried to "eject" it from there. To no avail. It wasn't possible. You could only safely disconnect your iPod through iTunes. And... iTunes knew of no iPod on my computer. How could I disconnect an iPod that wasn't there!? What!? Stop telling me "Do Not Disconnect!" And thus... iPod had struck. Struck back fiercely.
On the eve of leaving for a week. After spending hours today loading up my iPod. As the clock struck midnight. My iPod killed itself.
"Oh Evan... come on. Two iPods aren't going to break on you! You must be doing something!"
This is true... I considered this. But... tis' not true. The iPod locked up. Somehow. It can't be restarted. It can't be turned off. It's frozen... saying "Do Not Disconnect." Bitter ironic words. Because the iPod was never disconnected... couldn't be disconnected... until all else was lost. It had disappeared into some sort of limbo world... between computer and a safe disconnect.
I understand my mother now. She goes through cell phones like crazy. Saying they always break. I never took her seriously... just figured she had broken them. But it's true. Some items... some things... refuse to leave you alone. And so iPod II... like a bad girl friend... has cheated on me again... and left me music-less the night before I go on a one week vacation.
Be warned, workers of the Apple Store in Clarendon. I shall be there upon my return to Washington. Dead iPod in hand. For it is under warranty this time. And it shall arise anew... like a phoenix.
The final irony? The last song I listened to on it... "When the World Ends." Was it trying to tell me something? *sigh* Perchance. Perchance.
So my first iPod died. It was very tragic. I remember it. I was walking back from one of my classes on a breeze and cold January day. I tried switching between tracks. I was listening to System of a Down at the time. But I didn't want that track. I wanted the next one. So I hit track over. And it froze. Never to be heard from again. (Get it!? Bad pun!) It had locked up. There was no explaination for it... apple didn't have one. I didn't have one. And it wasn't gonna be replaced (the warranty had expired a few weeks earlier.)
And so my boycott of iPod began. But like a cheating girlfriend... I couldn't stay away. A long summer of listening to a CD player to and from work (a tedious and annoying process) took it's toll... then iPod generation 4 was released... and I decided it was time to set our differences aside and be reunited. I love my music. I love my mp3s and my CDs. iPod is the best solution! So in late July on a brief trip home to Houston... i purchased myself a new iPod. And the world was right again.
But iPod was not through with me. No sir it would have it's last laugh. As I sit here typing this... it's a little past 12am on a Friday night. I'm flying to Rochester tomorrow to visit Mike... and spend a week doing whatever it is we'll be doing. So I figured it's high time to really load up some CDs on this bad boy so I can have it for the trip up and trip back. iPod had other ideas...
Completing a classic rock song list... I was ready to load it up! And load it up I did! But... it only got 36 of the 46 songs! What!? Something was amiss! Windows said something! "Could Not Complete Transfer to G:" What!? iTunes! Talk to me! What's going on!? Why does my iPod say "Do not disconnect still?" But iTunes was silent. iTunes didn't know where the iPod was. So I fled to My Computer. *phew* The iPod was still showing. So I tried to "eject" it from there. To no avail. It wasn't possible. You could only safely disconnect your iPod through iTunes. And... iTunes knew of no iPod on my computer. How could I disconnect an iPod that wasn't there!? What!? Stop telling me "Do Not Disconnect!" And thus... iPod had struck. Struck back fiercely.
On the eve of leaving for a week. After spending hours today loading up my iPod. As the clock struck midnight. My iPod killed itself.
"Oh Evan... come on. Two iPods aren't going to break on you! You must be doing something!"
This is true... I considered this. But... tis' not true. The iPod locked up. Somehow. It can't be restarted. It can't be turned off. It's frozen... saying "Do Not Disconnect." Bitter ironic words. Because the iPod was never disconnected... couldn't be disconnected... until all else was lost. It had disappeared into some sort of limbo world... between computer and a safe disconnect.
I understand my mother now. She goes through cell phones like crazy. Saying they always break. I never took her seriously... just figured she had broken them. But it's true. Some items... some things... refuse to leave you alone. And so iPod II... like a bad girl friend... has cheated on me again... and left me music-less the night before I go on a one week vacation.
Be warned, workers of the Apple Store in Clarendon. I shall be there upon my return to Washington. Dead iPod in hand. For it is under warranty this time. And it shall arise anew... like a phoenix.
The final irony? The last song I listened to on it... "When the World Ends." Was it trying to tell me something? *sigh* Perchance. Perchance.