I finally caved and bought a pretty new black 4GB iPod nano (one of the benefits of keeping only music you like rather than every piece of music you ever came across is that your library fits in under 2 GB). I found someone on Craigslist selling a new, unopened one for $200 (as opposed to the usual $250 the 4GB version usually is), so really, how could I pass that up? Especially with no tax.
I justified it to myself in two ways:
- I realized I could fairly easy hook the thing up to my car stereo and thus have my entire music library in my car so that I don't have to suffer through the shit that passes for modern music radio, and
- I'm less lazy about exercising if I have music. And I'm in danger of becoming fatass. So really, the iPod is an anti-fatass device. Wouldn't you pay $200 to not be a tub of lard?
Incidentally, I find myself really impressed with the iPod interface. I hadn't played with it much, but now I understand the hype. It's really easy to use the touch-spin wheel to go through songs even if you have a fuckload of them (which everyone these days does), and it makes the stuff you often want access to (like volume) available by a single touch. They have, effectively, only 6 controls on the thing, but you pretty much never feel limited.
Apple really gets their UIs right. Why is this so goddamn hard for Microsoft?
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