The mePod Cult

I have seen the light and it is the screen of a 16 Gig iPod Touch! Halleluja! Amen! I can now lift my head high and praise the benefits of belonging to the sacred church of Apple and the words of Brother Job.

In all seriousness (sort of), I finally found an iPod worth buying. Up until now hey've all just been fancy MP3 players but once they came out with the second gen of Touch and brought the price down under $300, I found I couldn't resist.

I was a Palm Pilot-junky for years but a couple months ago my antiquated Palm IIIc vanished (fell out of my back pack somewhere) and really no great loss because it couldn't hold a charge for more than 20 minutes and all I really used it for at the end was playing cribbage on the bus (not when I was driving). But the iPod Touch Gen 2 has this cool little think called an accelerometer which reads the angle of dangle on the machine and translates it into controls for various video games. The device also has a 3" widescreen and plays movies, videos, holds the usual photos, and it even has Wifi, and a GPS so the possibilities are nearly endless.

Of course I could have opted to get an iPhone 3G with all the same features plus the phone, but I just bought a Motorola Razer and hardly need a second phone. Besides, sometimes I just want a phone and don't need to carry toys with me (out for a run etc.) I do have a smaller MP3 player that I can use for those times.

So, I've become one of those lost souls wandering around civilization (and sometimes beyond) with a set of headphones on, a glazed look in my eye and a total disregard for the world around me. The big difference is that I bought black headphones so the world couldn't tell I was with the cult. *L* Yah, but I still am. I try not to be, when I'm with friends and family. I don't wear the headphones or even use the unit when I'm with other people I'm supposed to be talking to, and this iPod has external speakers so we can actually all enjoy the song, hunched around the all-knowing, all-seeing Oracle-Pod.

But it's good to get my tunes back and get a cool toy in the process.

That's all I have to say about that.

Ciao for now.


Tim Reynolds.
Author of Stand Up & Succeed
www.StandUpAndSucceed.com