In which she plays with the shiny

[zeborah]

On Sunday I finally reconciled my inner magpie and my inner miser and ordered myself an iPod. (It's useful! It will help me endure mowing lawns and doing dishes!) It's a silver 4GB nano, and I got free shipping and engraving (I put my email address on the back, so if I lose it the person who finds it will know who to be grateful to). It arrived at work this afternoon and I spent half an hour alternating "Ooh shiny!" with customer service and "Pamela*, where did you hide my shiny?" because my colleagues are like that. Then I had my tea break, during which I figured out how the scrolling worked and undid my accidental setting of the language to Dutch. (Thank goodness it was an Indo-European language I accidentally set it to or I'd never have worked it out.)

Aside from the mowing of laws and doing of dishes, I must admit that the games were an attraction, but the contacts/calendar/alarm functions are also pretty nifty. And I can read txt files! That's got to come in useful. What would have been really cool would be built-in note-taking ability using the scroll-through-the-alphabet function that's already used in at least one of the games: it's amazing how quickly one can scroll through even without practice.

* Not her real name.

Comments

[via-pigeon.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person left in the world who doesn't have an mp3 player?

On the other hand, today I rode the cable car, which was more fun than it sounds.

[slrose.livejournal.com]

No.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I love my iPod. It eases the tedium of boring physical tasks and enables me to listen to SF short stories on my commute.

I haven't used the contacts because I use the calendar/address book in my phone. :)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Yes, mine has made a big difference to my commute too. It's just a little bit easier to load than my tungsten used to be, but that's the difference between "new stuff everyday" and "I can't be bothered".

[(Anonymous)]

I had no desire for an iPod—I have stereo speakers, I have a car radio—until I got addicted to language-learning podcasts. Listening to them on the computer was no trouble, but then I started downloading yoga podcasts. How am I supposed to actually DO the yoga while hovering over the computer speakers? So now I'm haunting the used and refurb listings. Of course if the wires get in the way I'll be wanting wireless earbuds. That'll be quite a wait.

Mary Anne in Kentucky