Sunday, September 07, 2008

Addiction

Sometimes I wonder if our stuff controls us or if we control our stuff. Take for instance my new car. It came with an auxiliary jack for plugging in my iPod. I found this a necessary feature when I purchased my car even though I didn't own an iPod. I justified it by saying that I would probably own an iPod during the lifetime of this vehicle and therefore the auxilliary jack would be a "necessary" feature.

A few weeks later, my good friend Nicole happened to acquire an "extra" iPod which she offered to sell me since she already had one and didn't need this one. Great! I "needed" an iPod. Anyhow, the one she sold me was an iPod touch. So I went from having no iPod to having this crazy touch screen, scan the internet, organize my life, and incidently play music device. And, of course now, I'm addicted. The stinkin' thing has all sorts of functions and buttons and a new surprise around every turn. Goodbye homework... hello iPod!


4 comments:

Amanda said...

Yeah...I got an iPhone recently...similar addiction, it also makes phone calls! :) It's tough to not surf the internet...just because I can. My phone has GPS in addition to many of the features on the iPod Touch (plays music); it will take pictures (really good ones in fact); and has regular cell phone functions, too. How awesome that your car as a jack for it - that will definitely be a feature I have to have on my next car...whenever we end up buying one! Yeay for iPods! :)

Nicole said...

Oops... sorry!! Welcome to the wonderful addicted world of Apple products :)

Rebecca said...

I had an ipod at school and I had to give it back when I resigned. I'm thinking that I "need" one now too. I got spoiled.

Unknown said...

Neato! It looks like an iphone; is the only difference that it doesn't make calls? Peggy has an iphone and the gps was great getting around Seattle, plus you could google something on the spot! Do you pay for internet service? That's pretty awesome!