It’s true, Apple has sucked me into the world of bottled music. 
While I enjoy my job at the gallery far too much for my own good, I do bike to and from work 40 minutes a day, five days a week. For the past week or so I’ve been toying with the idea of getting some sort of portable music player to help relieve the monotony of such rides. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get one, however, because I was concerned that I wouldn’t use it much and that it would distract me from hearing traffic.
Today I went shopping, though. I decided that it would be worth a purchase, since I spend most of the journey on sparsely-populated bike trails anyway, and can simply turn it off or pause it for the parts where I must traverse roads. I didn’t have my heart set on any one type of player; I was keeping my eyes open for which ones were the best deals.
Although I found a relatively cheaply priced MP3 player from The Source, I decided to go with the slightly pricier iPod nano from CompuSmart, largely because I prefer CompuSmart to The Source when it comes to vendor. 
I went for their warranty too, so at the end of the day I paid a bit more than I had expected, but that’s okay. I’m working throughout the summer, so I’ll earn it back and then some.
’Tis shiny and black and nice.
On another note, when I got home from the excursion I discovered that Firefox had decided to delete all the preferences of my extensions. This was rather inconvenient, because even though I could restore my bookmarks, the extensions took a bit longer. Luckily I don’t have that many. I had to restore my Greasemonkey user scripts and redo my ChatZilla preferences. 
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Oh Ben… not only did you buy the iPod, you bought a sucker warranty? You have much to learn :P
I’m probably gonna get an iPod soon. Mp3 players have become outdated to me. Enjoy your iPod!
Ugh, extended warranties. Waste of money to me. If it breaks, it’s probably much less to buy a new one :P
They tried to sell me ’AppleCare‘ when I bought my Mac (that’s basically an extended warranty too), and I knew they would. No way did I get it. It was so much to start with (like, almost a third of what I paid for the thing in the first place!), and I wouldn’t need it anyway 
Anyway, back on topic (see, we’re terrible for going off-topic, even on blogs 
), congrats on your new purchase, especially an iPod 
Just don’t wonder why if it suddenly gets outdated by a new model in two weeks time 
Meh. I don’t have any intention of purchasing the “21st generation iPod with multi-channel video telepathy and nuclear-powered speakers” or whatever they come up with next, which is one of the reasons I bought the extended warranty. This thing is going to last me for a couple of years, getting beat up and scratched along the way. But as long as it still plays music….
I’ve considered getting an I-pod. Even though my 7 year old CD player is still going strong, if I end up getting a car without a cd player, it might be cheaper in the long run to spring for an I-pod and a car adapter. I was looking at those 1 gb nanos. There around what I’d need. Any recommendations Seth or Ben?
If you do go Nano, I’d always go 2GB rather than 1GB. You can always use the extra space to store files or something and the price difference is minimal.
Car adapters, you can get a great Belkin one on Amazon for $23. It’s what I use.
It may be wise to get an Invisible Shield for your nano. I‘d probably be more likely to buy one for the large iPod (if I had one), but if you want to save your nano from years of abuse (scratching), you should probably use something of the sort. It’s up to you whether you think it’s worth the $20. Plus, it depends on how you take care of your stuff. I know some one with an iPod that had it all scratched up after a couple months due to careless handling.
I‘m considering one of those cases with the lanyard or the clip (or something like that), since I don’t really feel secure just putting it in my pocket while biking, although it worked fine today. Also, the controls will be more accessible that way, so I can easily fiddle with the volume while biking instead of having to rummage around my pocket.
Greetings from the Big Apple and congrats on the iPod Apple…that’s how it all started with me and next it will be the MacBook…it’s sooooo worth it!
I have a black iPod Nano also. They‘re really good. I’m sure it will work well for biking.
Congrats on your new iPod, Tachy! I actually just bought a 2Gb Nano myself online from CompuSmart. (Yeah, I‘m lazy..) So, it looks like we’ve both caught in Apple’s world of bottled misuc, eh?
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:07 PM