ipod: fuck you i love you

I'll admit it. I am one of them. I too have those little white earpieces shoved into the sides of my head. Yes, I own an ipod. I am sorry but I love my ipod. I don't care that practically every student on my campus is dawning the trademark white headphones. My ipod is fucking handy! Imagine, a whole musical library stored into a tiny lightweight case. Even it's appearance is very becoming. I don't care that it costs $300. Even if it wasn't given to me for Christmas, I still would have bought it. I love my ipod!

Of course that doesn't mean I don't have a few beefs with the ipod. The ipod is kind of evil in a way. The fuckers at Apple still managed to find a way to make life difficult for you and your glorious ipod. You pay $300 for the thing and they give you the program to install itunes onto your computer if you don't have it already. Fair enough. The only thing is, you have to have Windows XP. Technologically outdated people like myself then find themselves up a creek without a paddle. That means all the goddamn music stored on my computer is useless, because I don't have Windows XP and Windows millennium just isn't good enough. Luckily, I have a friend who also has an ipod and thus, already has an itunes program installed on her computer. So I thought I would just mosey on over and copy what she had onto my ipod, although my ipod was given to me with a good amount of music in it already, from another music library. I merely wanted to add more music to it, which isn't really a ludicrous concept. Well it turns out that in the process of adding the music from my friend's itunes library, all the music I had on my ipod prior to that was erased. Fuck beans.

You cannot imagine my devastation when I discovered that 2,000+ songs had been erased from my ipod. Do you know how long it takes to upload that stuff? It's no quick task; that was precious invested time. How stupid is it that you can't copy songs from multiple music libraries? No fair I tell you! At the price paid for the ipod, one should be able to upload music from any itunes library. Piracy shmiracy. Free music downloads are alive and well, why don't they just accept it? And even so, there's nothing free about the itunes music library, so why not create software that allows viable access to multiple libraries? How cool would it be for ipod users to have the ability to share music amongst each other? What's the big deal anyhow, it's not like Apple would be losing money. They've made so much money already. Honestly, the consumer is not going to buy multiple ipods so they can upload music from multiple sources. I'd like to think that no one is that stupidly excessive. Inaccessibility to anyone's itunes library but your own: It's a bloody outrage.

Aside from the whole cockamaimy piracy prevention issue, life post-ipod attainment is great. I'm addicted to the damn thing, I take it everywhere. Even though the program designers at Apple are bastards for not letting us share music, I'm still glad I have an ipod. Like a parent would their screwed up child, I just can't help but love it.

Well another semester, another set of disappointments with a few triumphs sprinkled in between. I'd rather not talk about it. I will say however, that I have one year of school left before I get a BS in Biology. They got the BS part right. It'll be nice to be over with things like finals week, which was a hectic one this semester. That's probably why it took me so long to recover and get back to posting, which I feel terrible about neglecting. I partially blame my crappy Dell computer, which crashed recently. It's infected with viruses because I never renewed my Norton Antivirus, which is a sham, since I never download anything. Mere ploys.

I wish to discuss one of my favorite topics: stupid people. During the last week of school I was in the computer lab typing up some papers. This random guy decided to bring a group of kids with him to the computer lab. First of all, he stole this girls computer while she got up to get something off the printer. When she came back and informed him that he was using her computer, he told her he thought it was free, instead of getting his ass up off her computer like he should have. She pointed out her things, which were in plain sight. He said, "I know. But I just figured I'd use it since no one was sitting here. Just give me a few more minutes, I'm almost done here." OKAY. I didn't like the guy already. Unfortunately she was pretty much done with her work, so she gave him her spot, right across from yours truly.

I understand that kids can be a handful, but this guy had no clue as to how to deal with children. Men can't rear young for a reason. It's more natural for them to suck at it. One must understand that it's impossible to have complete and utter control over a child, especially if they're not your own. This guy didn't understand that, he was obviously a control Nazi. Mr. Mom insisted that these children be completely mute, and of course they weren't, so he began to 'shush' them every five seconds. That turned out to be more annoying than the children themselves. He was ten times more audible than the kids. SHHH! SHHHH! Be quiet! If you aren't quiet I'm going to separate you two! SHHHH!! You SHHH, stupid! You are the one being loud. Damn it you're dumb. I just stared at him in hatred, from behind my monitor. I had fantasies of strangling him, or perhaps flicking him repeatedly on the forehead. This went on for hours; he just wouldn't leave. I had to relocate because it turned into such a spectacle and inevitably, a distraction. I wasn't the only one either.

If you can't handle a couple of kids, then don't bring them to a quiet study area during finals week. Numb nuts.

why i don't post anymore

It's that time of year again: FINALS. After this Thursday, I won't have school for a whole...5 days! And then summer school! Oh joy. Fuck me, man.