On portable music players.
The other day, I realised a shocking truth: I think I’m love with my iPod. Hardly surprising, I suppose, given my combined loves of all things musical, all things technological, and (perhaps most importantly), all things shiny.
It’s so pretty! I love that the battery lasts such a ridiculously long period of time. It’s wonderful for forgetful types like me who can never remember to charge the silly things up. (My mobile phone often suffers from periods of neglect for this very reason.)
Our family went up to the mountains on Saturday (thus the sunburn I have already complained about) and I was able to listen to it all the way up, most of the day while we were there, and then most of the way home again. Except for the last part of the journey where I memorised the phonetic alphabet. (I wasn’t being antisocial, promise–my brother and Mum’s boyfriend both spent the entire time fishing. Boooorrrring. I even did some excercise, god forbid. We took canoes! I was so proud; my muscles didn’t even hurt the next day. Woot!)
We also saw a goanna. Well, I saw a goanna and felt obligated to tell Mum so that she could go chasing after it with a camera. (And when I say chasing, I MEAN chasing…those things move fast!)
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Tags: goanna, ipod, mountains, music, music players, portable music players, technology, trips
I agree, I have not been an iPod fan up to recently, disliking the non-removable/replaceable batteries and Apple’s DRM and software (iTunes.) This Christmas I decided I was going to ask for a replacement to my aging Sony MP3 player (which served me admirably for a couple of years.) The reason I went for a iPod mini? Well for the price there was nothing that was better - for once there was no financial penalty for owning this pseudo status symbol. This coupled with its compact size and podcast support sold me. I have to say, I have not regretted this decision, it works great! :) Great blog thus far :)
Haha, yeah. I admit to being rather a fan of iTunes, actually. Don’t ask for logic; I have none. Previously, I did get an mp4 player for Christmas, but it..just…didn’t work very well at all. At ALL.
Thank you for the comment. :-)