Car Conversation

Overheard during a weekend trip to IN this weekend:

Driver: That guy is going too slow! [Flips on turn signal and moves to the left lane.]

Shotgun rider: Are you gonna race that cop to get around him?

Driver: Is that a cop?!

Shotgun rider: That car up there with all the antennae on its trunk? With the blue and red lights in the back window?! I'm not sure.

Driver: [Moves back into the middle lane.] Shit! I'll stay away from him.  I got pulled over last week.

Shotgun rider: I can't see how.

How to Rant

I just put up a link to a video of a Chris Berman tirade on SaWA, and I think you should watch it. So here's a direct link for your convenience. Have fun.

Timing is Everything

Wouldn't you know it? Just two days after I ordered a new AbsPod, Apple goes and updates the line, now offering a 32GB version of the iPod Touch. The bitch of it is that my new toy has already shipped. Just administratively, though. It is apparently scheduled to be exported from China within a couple of days. One of the things I didn't like about the 16GB of the touch is that I would have to actively manage my media on there because I have more than 16GB of music. 32GB would mean I probably wouldn't have to do that, or at least I wouldn't have to very much. I suppose I could cancel my order and upgrade, or return it, or something like that. However, I'm not positive that I want to pay another $100. Probably not. Still, it would have been better for me if they had announced this last Tuesday. Very inconsiderate of his Steveness.

What is Sarah Silverman Doing?

Or should it be whom? The BHK pointed me to this video, and it clued me into two things. First, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are a couple. I had no idea. I bet they laugh a lot, though, and that is good times. The second thing it clued me into was ... well, you'll have to watch the video for that. I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I watched it. That's right, I was actually LOL. Not ROTFLMAO or anything ridiculous like that, but I did LOL. Lesseee, this video is probably NSFW (the sound, not the actual images), so you should probably watch it at home or with headphones.

Luck Runs Out

No, I'm not talking about the Patriots' almost perfect season here. I wouldn't use the word "luck" in any way when talking about their season. (If I were going to talk about that, the title would probably have been "Cheaters Don't Always Win.") What I am talking about is the AbsPod. Almost a year ago, I wrote a couple of posts about leaving my iPod on an airplane. While it seemed pretty bad at first, I ended up lucky, getting the AbsPod back just one day later, after it had made a nice little round trip jaunt to Grand Rapids, MI.

Well, I wasn't so lucky this weekend. I was talking with the BHK when I arrived home after golf (yes, golf!) Saturday, and I had a few too many things going on as I opened the door to enter the house. As a result, the AbsPod fell right out of my hands. I've dropped the thing several times before, but I typically manage to get a foot under it to cushion the blow or something. Not so much this time. It fell straight down and landed flat on its back on the concrete floor of the garage with a sickening smack. I was bummed about it, but I had other things going on, and I quickly stopped thinking about it.

Sunday morning, I grabbed my standard five things (keys, gym ID card, bottle of water, towel, and AbsPod) and went to the gym, not thinking at all about the stomach-turning smack from the day before. As I started into my work out, I fired up the AbsPod to listen to something, and it did it's normal turning on things, then presented me with a cartoon-ized picture of an iPod with a frowny face, along with this message: "www.apple.com/ipod/support." DOH! I messed with it for a while, but listening to it closely revealed that the hard drive was making lots of clicks and grinding noises, which told me that the hard drive was toast.

I guess I shouldn't be too bummed out about it. I could decide that I've been using it on borrowed time for the last 11 months. I could possibly fix it by cracking it open and digging into the actual iPod molecules and replacing the hard drive, and I probably will. But that's not a for-sure thing. That's just the engineer in me talking. In the more immediate future, I ordered an iPod touch to replace it. The upside of that is that it has no hard drive to ruin.

It's not all bad. For a little anguish and a lot of money, I get a new toy to play with. Still, I hope your weekend was luckier than mine.