An announcement of a dead iPod has no right being actually funny. It should be a profound moment of “who cares, get a new one”. It should not make me laugh out loud till I snort Tab onto my screen. Well played, Tbogg.

But, but…the iPod is our best friend these days…what?
Guess I’ll have to go out and plant another rose bush in memory of another dead electronic device. Sigh.

Oh…and get that thing replaced soon. Your readers will expect the Pre-Friday random 10 or 11 or such on schedule or we’ll just die of boredom with our own lives…. besides how else can uncool, middle-aged moms find leads to music that doesn’t make them want to find the nearest brick wall to smash foreheads repeatedly? I’ve finally weaned the pre-teen, soccer shark daughter off the whiny pop-diva music…and her new choices aren’t bad at all!

My Sony Walkman will be playing Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, K.626, in sympathy.

Now he’s gone.
Lord, he’s gone.
Like a steam locomotive
Rolling down the track.
He’s gone.
He’s gone.
And nothin’s gonna bring him back.
He’s gone. – Robert Hunter

Requiescant in pace

So what do we do on Fridays now??

I’m thinking a Scott Stapp retrospective. It just seems appropriate.

You see this is why the net roots are called promoters of “hate speech”. Do we have to kill Scott Stapp? Can’t we just waterboard him or something?

“WITH ARMS WIDE OP…glub glub glub glub…EN! UNDER THE SUN…glub bubble glub…LIGHT. WELCOME TO TH…glub bubble choke…IS PLACE! I’LL SHOW YOU…burble glub bubble choke…EVERYTHING! WITH AAAARRMSSS WIDE OPEEEEEEN!!”

The i-pod is dead. Long live the i-pod.

I’m wondering what the first song to be DL’d onto the new Ipod will be? Video Killed the Radio Star has history but Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN’s Hurt is a new age classic.

Just got back from 3 days of jumping, camping, and drinking @the Batavia Boogie! and found out Jesse Helms died – good riddance!

Wonder this time where she’s gone,
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

Tbogg’s iPod RIP. Man, a U2 Special Edition model, too. So sorry for you.

You see this is why the net roots are called promoters of “hate speech”. Do we have to kill Scott Stapp?

Yes.

Hey Tbogg -

K-Lo wishes you a “”Happy Bill and Pat Buckley 58th Wedding Anniversary Day”.

Hopefully it hasn’t been sent to iPod Hell where it is most likely getting fucked in the ass by Geddy Lee.

It’s amazing how attached we become to our little electronic friends. My white nano is almost 3 years old and still cruising along. I’ll be crushed when she goes.

I had a similar mobile Ipod quit on me … bought a new nano and i am as pleased as maggot in jessie helms

My condolences.

By the way, a piece of advice that Apple really doesn’t advertise enough, though of course you may have already thought of it — assuming you’re going to replace this, buy one of the refurbished ones they sell online. It’ll save you about $100, and if you get the two-year warranty you’ll be covered for a while before the time bomb Apple inserts in every iPod, timed to go off two months after your warranty expires, explodes. I did that with one of the first click wheel models, a 40 gig, and though the people at the Apple store laughed at me when I brought it in a couple months ago, it held up quite well. Of course, then after laughing at me they gave me a replacement model, and its time bomb just went off the other day — I’m considering a burial at sea — and now I have to give in and actually buy an iPod that will show me color and pictures and video. It’s rough being a cheapskate/Luddite.

Since we’re all hostile and shit…an expanded proposal:

Scott Stapp/Eddie Vedder double killing made to look like suicides.

Are you certain it’s dead? Try some solutions like the ones recommended here:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2007…..wont-boot/

I have a 2004 60gig clickwheel model that I’ve salvaged from two seemingly catastrophic fails–it’s worth trying some repairs; mine works wonderfully now (knock on wood). I did buy a Nano last year, just in case my baby does give out and I have to wait a few months to spring for an 80 gig….

Hey now, that’s the same iPod I’ve got and it’s on its last legs as well. They must have a timed self-destruct mode going over at Apple.

Apple refurbs are great. I got a MacBook Pro for $500 cheaper than the exact same model/equip if I’d bought it new, and aside from a single trip to the local Apple store to get the DVD/CD burner replaced (under warranty, for a better drive in the bargain), I’ve had no problems. So I’m still about $450 better off.

How can you be so hostile to Mr. Stapp? He is the last toilet plunger still working in Western Civilization’s battle with the great turd-in-the-throat!

RIP old friend- pre-Fridays will never be the same again…..

This is good info. Another thing to remember: don’t just give up on it – pretty frequently these things can be fixed. A friend works at Apple doing just that. (He also tells me that he’s amazed at the stuff he finds on the damn things sometimes – you have to go through them a bit to see if it’s really fixed, you know.) I’d suggest taking it to the store and at least asking if they can send it in for a checkup. I have a 2003 model (30 gig, pre-click wheel) and it still works fine. Every now and then I have to run Disc First Aid on it and that’ll correct some minor glitch or other it has developed. I think doing that on a somewhat regular basis helps keep it in fine fettle.

The new ones are pretty amazing but I like the ease of use of the older ones with real buttons, rather than the touch screen. It seems like a more straightforward way to control them.

I will say that I have (still) one of the very first iPods ever made and it’s still ticking along great. Baffling but true. I also have one of the second models and when the battery died we sent it in to Apple with about sixty bucks and they sent us back the same model with a working battery–but disconnected touch switches. So we sent it back to them for free and they sent us one that worked, finally, but had half the gig. At which point we gave up on dealing with them and just loaded the darned thing which was still bigger than I needed. It was still a more satisfying and better experience than trying to get fucking Fry’s to replace a fucking fifty dollar documentary DVD set which was scratched up when I brought it home. (We never did get the fucking thing replaced and the assholes won’t even answer my hatemail anymore.)

Mine still has buttons. Never given me a problem.

Hmmm…where have I heard this before: “Why would I need to trade in this 1999 Mercury Sable? Runs perfect!”

Oh, yeah. My dad.

I really need a new iPod.