another heathen converted
So my wife did a very good thing last month and bought me an iPod. It was an early birthday present (my birthday is in March), but she had some money to burn and knew I wanted one badly. So for the past month, she has been saying things like "nope. Just don't get it." "yawn." "am I an iPod widow?" And on and on. Oh, and yesterday, I noticed her woman's magazine had these cool little iPod mini mockups --- like those annoying cards that keep falling out of magazines? Anyway, my kids loved them. She, however, was unimpressed, still.
Today, I let her use my iPod at the Gym. Well, I was going to use it, but she was kinda irked that I would be cut off from normal conversation, so I dug up my rattail splitter and we listened together for a while. That turned out to be a royal pain in the ass (we had to shove the treadmills together, for example), so I just let her use it.
Five minutes later she was demanding an iTrip and a simple armband FM radio. One half-hour later she's saying. "This is pretty cool." "How much are iPod minis again?" "Can you help me get music on it?" "Can I use it with speakers at my office." "We can download music from iTunes automatically with our credit card, right?"
First the TiVo, now iPods. She had better watch out, or her status as an anti-geek newtech-nophobe will be in danger.
The only thing I love more than spending $$ on myself is spending geek money on her, because, well, I like to get her things, and it's an implicit I told you so.
Today, I let her use my iPod at the Gym. Well, I was going to use it, but she was kinda irked that I would be cut off from normal conversation, so I dug up my rattail splitter and we listened together for a while. That turned out to be a royal pain in the ass (we had to shove the treadmills together, for example), so I just let her use it.
Five minutes later she was demanding an iTrip and a simple armband FM radio. One half-hour later she's saying. "This is pretty cool." "How much are iPod minis again?" "Can you help me get music on it?" "Can I use it with speakers at my office." "We can download music from iTunes automatically with our credit card, right?"
First the TiVo, now iPods. She had better watch out, or her status as an anti-geek newtech-nophobe will be in danger.
The only thing I love more than spending $$ on myself is spending geek money on her, because, well, I like to get her things, and it's an implicit I told you so.
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It was $150!. I snatched that sucker up. If she gets hooked on the iPod thing, and decides a mini is better, then I'll get her one this summer. I just couldn't pass up $150 for an iPod. Sure, it will waste a lot of space (there is no way she will put 10G of music on it, much less listen to that much), but it is a perfect "testbed" for her, if nothing else.
She just paid $285 for my 15G, 3G iPod last month.
I'm going to try and get home and set things up for her (iTunes and all that) before she gets home.