Apathetic Thursday

Snapped this photo the other day while out and about. Somehow this doesn’t quite seem to capture the spirit of the season…

Hot off the twitter feed, by John Gruber:

 I’d sooner attempt to fashion my own homebrew HDMI cable out of melted pennies and hollowed-out Slim Jims than pay $60 for one at Best Buy.

I just wish Best Buy would catch on that most of their potential customers feel this way.

This is why I love Foxtrot:

And yes, I would totally buy this game.

Yeah, I totally knew it, and I don’t need any of you! I am an Expert, I’m just Undiscovered. Some day, you’ll be polishing my shoes. Just remember that. You had your chance to get in touch, rub shoulders, you know, make a friend, but if you blow it now, don’t expect my sympathy later.

Later days!

This just absolutely made my day. From xkcd; I so gotta try this.

I’m having iPod troubles. No, my iPod isn’t changing the volume at random, it’s not failing to connect to my computer, and it’s not skipping songs by Michael Jackson (but I wish it would.)

No, my iPod problems are not with the software acting up, it’s with the hardware acting down. The problem I am currently having with my iPod is that it’s too darn small. I have/had an iPod Nano. After my original 10 Gig iPod died on me I borrowed my Dad’s nano for awhile, until my Dad got a new MacBook, and with it, a free iPod Nano. He had “WELS” ingraved on the back, and he gave it to me.

I was excited, and this was great. I didn’t always listen to my iPod daily, but it always saved me on my long car rides, because I would listen to TWiT or Security Now to pass the time. Well a few weeks ago, I no longer knew where my iPod was. I only used it once or twice a week, if even that, so it didn’t strike me as odd, because usually when it’s not on my desk, it’s in my backpack or something. Well, it took me awhile to actually getting around to checking my backpack back to front and discover that my iPod wasn’t there. By now, it’s been about three or so weeks, maybe more, since I last saw my iPod.

I kept figuring it would show up somewhere, but it hasn’t. I cleaned out my dorm room for the summer, and there has been no sign of it. Which means, it’s either lost in some bag or pile of books, it fell out of my backpack and someone took it, or it somehow got thrown away with some old papers.

I’m still hoping it might turn up, but it’s looking all the more doubtful. And while this may give me opportunity to get a new iPod, perhaps even a full size one, it’s still a very sad occurance. I never lose things. I take great care, great pride in my things, and I am very protective of my stuff. To lose an iPod, is simply somthing I would never expect myself to do. But things have been busy, and life has been hectic, so if I was ever going to lose an iPod, I can only assume that it happened at the right time. I do hope though, that it wasn’t thrown away. And if it was thrown away, I hope someone finds it before it’s completely destroyed, and I hope they give it a nice home. It was a good little guy.

I don’t know if this is a very big problem for people, losing iPods that is. I think that Apple should consider making their iPods larger. I think that a microwave sized iPod would be a great addition to the iPod lineup. It could hold a good terrabyte of songs, have a 17 inch screen, cook dinner for you, and you would never lose it. Granted, you could only listen too it while you warmed up your vegitables, but that’s the price I am willing to pay.

This can just be the beginning. After the iPod Microwave, can come the iPod Fridge, or the iPod Sofa. Now is the time to take action! Write to Apple today! Tell your congressmen! Only you can prevent forest fires!