Drinking the iPod Kool-aid
I'm sorry to all my friends whose journals I usually read; I haven't been able to check LJ as often as I'd like in the last few weeks. Work's been busy, and I have to get ready to leave for Israel at the end of the month.
The biggest news is that I finally gave in and got an iPod. 30GB Photo iPod to be exact. I've been clicking the FedEx button all week, tracking the shipment from Shanghai (sp?).
I got it off the website with my student discount because you can also get free shipping and engraving. The latter was a bit of a hard decision. They give you 2 lines, with 27 characters each.
I narrowed my choices down to the following:
"We're more popular than Jesus now;" - John Lennon
"Music should never be harmless." - Robbie Robertson
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
And then Ben reminded me that there was a wicked Kurt Vonnegut quote from his cousin's DVD when they interviewed him. (www.1giantleap.tv):
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God." - Vonnegut
And so that was my final choice.
But here's what I came across in my research of what people generally think of getting engraved. A list of engravings that Apple refused to do, and some that slipped by:
-10,000 Stolen Tunes Inside
-Rip, Mix, Burn Down RIAA Headquarters
-Powder and razor blade not included
-Lick My Shiny Metal Ass
-Something Small and White Enrique Eglasias Isn’t In
-I play with myself
-Steal this? Will self destruct when used
-This iPod makes up for my small hard disk.
-10,000 reasons to ignore my wife
-Once you go small and white..
-Now you have two little white pocket rockets.
-Weapons of Mass Distraction Inside
-I last 8 hrs. You last 2 minutes. Who's the man?
-I Don't Do Windows
-Available in any colour as long as it's white.
-Things you own end up owning you.
-This'll be tough to sell on eBay now...
-I need to mate with a Treo 600
-Somewhere Bill Gates is listening.
The biggest news is that I finally gave in and got an iPod. 30GB Photo iPod to be exact. I've been clicking the FedEx button all week, tracking the shipment from Shanghai (sp?).
I got it off the website with my student discount because you can also get free shipping and engraving. The latter was a bit of a hard decision. They give you 2 lines, with 27 characters each.
I narrowed my choices down to the following:
"We're more popular than Jesus now;" - John Lennon
"Music should never be harmless." - Robbie Robertson
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
And then Ben reminded me that there was a wicked Kurt Vonnegut quote from his cousin's DVD when they interviewed him. (www.1giantleap.tv):
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God." - Vonnegut
And so that was my final choice.
But here's what I came across in my research of what people generally think of getting engraved. A list of engravings that Apple refused to do, and some that slipped by:
-10,000 Stolen Tunes Inside
-Rip, Mix, Burn Down RIAA Headquarters
-Powder and razor blade not included
-Lick My Shiny Metal Ass
-Something Small and White Enrique Eglasias Isn’t In
-I play with myself
-Steal this? Will self destruct when used
-This iPod makes up for my small hard disk.
-10,000 reasons to ignore my wife
-Once you go small and white..
-Now you have two little white pocket rockets.
-Weapons of Mass Distraction Inside
-I last 8 hrs. You last 2 minutes. Who's the man?
-I Don't Do Windows
-Available in any colour as long as it's white.
-Things you own end up owning you.
-This'll be tough to sell on eBay now...
-I need to mate with a Treo 600
-Somewhere Bill Gates is listening.