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lolaraincoat) wrote2007-04-11 12:00 pm
lolaraincoat) wrote2007-04-11 12:00 pm
in which my worst impulses are thwarted
Why are all the other iPods so elegant and the stupid new full-size iPod so very, very hideous? Why?
I wanted to spend my tax refund on a shiny new iPod -- the 80-gig kind that would have room for all the music currently jammed onto my hard drive instead of only about a third of it at a time -- even though my beautiful 6-gig mini works just fine and is pretty. But the new, 5th-generation iPods are even uglier than the full-size iPods used to be. They've now in two shades of gray, black and white at a time, rather than just white-and-chrome, which was bad enough. And the grays are in diagonal blocks, too, in some kind of misguided tribute to that retro '80s aesthetic. Couldn't they just sell them with preloaded Bananarama and Scritti Politti?*
Fuck it, I'm just going to donate my damn refund to Amnesty International then. Bastards.
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* Yes, I still love Scritti Politti. Shut up.
I wanted to spend my tax refund on a shiny new iPod -- the 80-gig kind that would have room for all the music currently jammed onto my hard drive instead of only about a third of it at a time -- even though my beautiful 6-gig mini works just fine and is pretty. But the new, 5th-generation iPods are even uglier than the full-size iPods used to be. They've now in two shades of gray, black and white at a time, rather than just white-and-chrome, which was bad enough. And the grays are in diagonal blocks, too, in some kind of misguided tribute to that retro '80s aesthetic. Couldn't they just sell them with preloaded Bananarama and Scritti Politti?*
Fuck it, I'm just going to donate my damn refund to Amnesty International then. Bastards.
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* Yes, I still love Scritti Politti. Shut up.
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After that I reset it to manual update so I can drag things around between different computers.
It was much less hassle than it has been ripping the HP audiobooks, frankly, because GraceNote has inconsistent titles and listings for each disk and then I have to batch them all to the proper settings and structure the naming of the albums so they sequence properly. I feel like it's not too much work since I am getting them free from a friend, but it would be exactly the same work if I had paid for the disks, and then it would annoy me.