Great . . . Another Freakin' iPod Post

Okay, here's something mildly interesting for ya . . .

(or not)

Apparently, Federated Department Stores (most recognizably - Macy's) is going to install iPod vending machines in some of their stores. Yep, that's actually what it says . . . iPod vending machines. Presumably, any old customer (with $399 in quarters) can just waltz right up and partake of the digital music revolution. You don't want to get left behind, you know.

Now, here is the question I want answered - Can I get a couple of snickers and one of those microwaveable pseudo-hamburger-like sandwiches with it? That would really be progress.

Man cannot live on music alone.

So, check out this scenario - after an unbelievably lengthy (and excrutiatingly frustrating) exercise of bill straightening, you finally get all 300 of those gnarly lil' suckers inserted into the machine, you punch B3 (the code for a white iPod Nano - because isn't it just the fashizzle), and then, as the item starts to ratchet forward . . . it gets stuck. We've all been there. No amount of swearing and pounding on the machine will ever free you from your pathetically lame world of used CDs and burned out cassette tapes, my friend. You might as well exit the mall and drive off into the sunset . . . forever trapped in the hideous vortex of your non-iPod-having life.

Sweetness was so close . . . almost within your grasp . . . merely centimeters away . . . and then . . . {poof} . . . it's all gone.

Oh the humanity!


Ben O.