New iPod…ETA 2006-03-22
Allyson decided to help me pay for my new iPod with some of the spending money she had saved up, so I’ll be getting my new iPod with video playback capability sooner than I figured. I ordered the 60 GB model in black, and Allyson will inherit my third-generation 40 GB iPod. In a very real sense, everyone wins.
Why did I want a new iPod when mine works just fine? First and foremost, I wanted Allyson to be able to have an iPod that can hold all of our music, and given my lust for all things expensive and digital it just made more sense to buy a new iPod for myself in order to accomplish this. In addition, the video playback functionality does exactly what I wanted a PSP for. I’ll be able to watch my instructional French videos easily on my lunch break at work, and if there’s a show I can’t live without watching out of the house, I can download it with questionable legality on the Internet’s many proverbial Mos Eisley cantinas until the content producers finally get their heads out of each other’s asses long enough to create a new distribution model(1). The battery life claims on the new iPods also intrigue the hell out of me.
I got my iPod custom engraved for free because why the hell not really. The back of my iPod will read:
No attachment to dust.
Je est un autre.
The first line is a quote from Zen master Zengetsu, and the second line is a quote en français from Arthur Rimbaud.
Alright. Back to converting video for my soon-to-arrive iPod.
Footnotes
- I might even consider getting a networked Tivo so that I can just grab my own shows and convert them for use on the iPod myself.
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