Tech Tuesday: I don't own an iPod

Okay, I have an admission to make. I don’t own an iPod. What? That’s right, I don’t own an iPod or have one in my house. But how is this possible? I mean, you’re Mr. Apple. You laugh out loud at the I’m a Mac and and I’m a PC commercials. I sound like Homer Simpson saying, “HA! PC guys is stupid, Mac guy is cool.” You’ve drank the apple flavored Kool-aid, so much so we can still see it on your lips. You’ve ingested so much, you pee apple juice. This is true, but I still don’t own an iPod. Even though, when I see that logo of an apple with a bite taken out of it, I feel warm and safe. I know I can’t be hurt. No iPod.

What are you? A music hater? No, I don’t think so. I like music a lot. In fact I’ve devoted an entire day to it here on this website. I just never got around to buying one, and they are so expensive. How can I afford that, when there are action figures I need. They must be bought. So then explain yourself?

Well, I guess, I was like, the radio still works, and it’s Free! You can’t beat Free. Yes, but you don’t control the content. You’re right. You can store up to 40,000 songs now. I am not sure I know 40,000 songs. I am sure I don’t like 40,000 songs. The radio still brings me a good selection, especially the so called iPod shuffle station that plays everything thing from the sixties to current decade. What they don’t play, I have bought on CD, so I can play it when I feel like it. I never bought a lot of CDs though, I own probably about 50 total.
It’s not like I don’t own music though. I have plenty of records. Nothing has replaced the joy of browsing though the cut out bin in the record store, and finding a rare bootleg Go-Go’s album for 5 bucks. I miss that. I converted to cassette when it happened because I was forced into it. When CDs hit, I stopped buying, I didn’t want to keep purchasing the same music on a different format over and over again. Although my record player no longer works. I still have the records, I can’t part with them.

When things went digital, and iTunes took over. I just couldn’t see paying for Blondie, 10,000 Maniacs, and Go-Go’s tunes I already had paid for on other formats. I’ve downloaded and bought a few tunes. Maybe 10 to 15 tunes  at the most. The thing is, I am maybe to dumb to use iTunes also. This hit critical mass about two week ago, when I told iTunes to import the two new CDs I bought from Tonks and the Aurors. It stuck them in two separate places and genres. This annoyed me, so I thought I’ll fix this. Never doing this before, and after hacking around a bit. I hit new smart playlist thinking that was it. My iTunes started searching the internet for the iTunes store. I pretty much panicked and tried to shut down the machine like it was on fire. Not really, but it was close to that.

Right after I got laid off, I took a trip to Philadelphia that I had already paid for before the layoff. The National Constitution Center had a guided tour on an iPod. I rented one and paid 15 extra dollars. Keep in mind this was two days after being laid off. I could not figure it out. The little wheel thing, had no idea how to use it. 15 dollars right down the drain because I was too stupid to figure out how to use it.

I’ll admit the new touch ones that look like the iPhone, seems like something I could figure out. Buttons, I like buttons. Even fake digital ones. But then you can only store 1,700 or so songs on that. That doesn’t seem like enough. Better wait until they up the amount of songs on the next one.

You see. I’m hopeless. Oh, by the way. I don’t have an iPhone or any cell of any kind. But that is a story for another day.