Today I have been playing with my new toy, which is a birthday present from D & M: one of the teeny-weeny little iPod Shuffles. It is perfect for solving a First-World Problem I was having, which is that my usual iPod Classic is kind of heavy to carry about while exercising and also (if stowed securely) it is hard to manipulate its controls mid-workout. No such issue with this new toy, which has the controls on the headphones.
It looks rather like the monolith from 2001:
See?
It is hard to properly grok the tininess of the thing, but perhaps it’s a context issue: this microscopic thing, this size-of-a-stick-of-chewing-gum thing with no moving parts, has 100x the memory of my first computer. Its Apple-y design yumminess combined with the stick-of-gum resemblance leads me to propose this piece of wisdom for this year:
iPods are not food. Do not eat them.
(edited to add birthday wisdom from previous years: 2006, 2007, 2008)
To whit: http://www.jeffschuetze.com/2009/03/17/jefbot129_chew-on-this/ 🙂
Or, even “to wit”. 🙂
Ha!