Once again, click the comic for better quality and all that. Still working on getting that domain name...
So, anyway, how's your spring break going? Yeah? Good? Cool. Mine's allright. I'm not doing anything special, no... Yeah, just trying to work on a few side projects... yeah, here at home... with my family...oh, you're in Cancun? Oh, wow, I've always wanted to go to Cancun! That's so cool! ...You met Alec Baldwin? Really? Wow! ...He's really short in person? No way! I wish I could have gone to Cancun- that is so cool.
... Fucking Jerk.
So, anyway, my sister thought it was imperative for me to post these two videos. I agreed. I know everyone's seen the first one by now, but how about the second?
Lastly, I bought a new ipod today. Not because I wanted to. Because my old one broke. Apparently, both the battery died and the hard drive couldn't be accessed. I mean, come on! I thought that only happened to people who have, like, really bad days. "Oh, man, I failed my chem lab, my girlfriend left me, and on top of everything else, my IPOD BROKE!!" Anyway, mine just up and kicked it. First the little sad ipod icon, then silence.
Okay, let me say this: I loved that little plastic rectangle. I've had it for years. It's helped me through study sessions, and caused me to have more than one car accident. When I tried to have it repaired, the Apple folks said no dice- I'll have to upgrade.
"What is this malarkey?!" I said. "I'm a college student. I watch tv like it's my job. I don't need videos in my ipod- when would I ever need to watch a video?" Well, apparently, those are my only options. "Bah!" I said. "I will not pay $230 for a color screen, 10 extra gigs and a video feature I won't use! I will find an alternative!"
For any of you out in the market for an mp3 player, there are two viable alternatives to the ipod out there: The Toshiba Gigabeat S and the Creative Zen Vision:M. Aside from terrible names, these third-party mp3 players are just as good as the ipod, for around the same price (or lower if you are courageous enough to buy online). I also found a free program to instantly switch your itunes library over to windows media player, called MusicBridge. So, a different player was and is a completely legitimate option.
So...Why didn't I switch? I'm too much of a wuss to buy something that expensive online, and there's an apple store like, fifteen minutes from my house. But I plead to the general populace: don't assume ipod is the only player out there! The Apple store people are completely useless, and now that I have my new ipod, I'm not doing anything with it I couldn't do before. Yeah, it's slick, but if you put in the time and effort, you could find better stuff.
DON'T BE A TOOL OF THE DIGITAL MEDIA HEGEMONY!
UPDATE!! I know this is a long time after the fact, but I wanted to add something really important to this post about ipod death. This is a really important page about how a person in the same position I was in might save their ipod from the dead. I was skeptical about it working, but then my friend's ipod broke in the exact same way mine did. I was all like, "hah! Now you have to go through all the shit I did!" but then I relented, and fixed his ipod immediately with a good, swift smack to the back of the case. His works fine now, and I'm just a little bitter that he's now $230 richer than me because Apple won't fix a problem that could be solved in less than a minute. Now, I understand that it's kind of weird tech support to give over the phone:
"Sir, now I want you to smash your ipod firmly against a table. This will reset the hard drive and fix your problem completely so you don't have to give us more of your money." But still, Apple. I TRUSTED YOU, YOU JACKASSES! I'll bring my ipod to listen to tunes during our rally. We'll watch Pirates of the Carribean on my 2.5-inch screen.
Anyway, that's all for this week. I'm considering changing art methods for the coming comics- we'll see who notices.
~Joe
