Podded

My new toy is giving me buyer's remorse.

I finally bought an iPod because I bought in to the premise that it would revolutionize my life: the Pod will make you smarter and well-informed, the Pod will make you musically mobile, the Pod will streamline your entertainment management and eliminate piles of scratchy CDs, the Pod will STOP AIDS if you buy it in a certain color.

One day, the Pod may do all of these things for me and more, but for now it comes with a list of demands before I can use it to its full potential:

1. Action Jacket
2. Car Adaptor
3. Noise-cancelling headphones

These accessories are essential for the following reasons:

1. If I look at it funny, it will leave a scratch
2. I only really listen to music when I'm driving
3. My ears must be horribly misshapen, because the earbuds don't seem to fit me, they fall out, and if I can manage to cram them in there for any length of time, my neighbor on the airplane can hear everything that I can in full stereo sound.

Also, according to the Action Jacket, I now have to take up jogging.

Give me a break!

I just wanted to hear This American Life, and it ate my podcasts.

It ate everything else, too, after three hours of feeding it music, because I don't understand what "sync" means.

At the risk of sounding anti-technology and totally square, I would just like to point out that books don't pull this kind of shizz, and they are portable, too.

(Though not as conducive to driving.)