The World in Words

Google earth is very, very cool. I’ve gotten to try it out for the past few days, and it’s an extraordinary piece of software, though it does have a few shortcomings.

And I’ve got another story to tell. Oh joy, a story from Bii!

So, basically, my iPod has been acting wonky ever since the 2006-01-10 iPod Software update from Apple. And then, Sunday night, it bit the dust.

My god, I was terrified. TERRIFIED. I was all sweating and delerious because, well, my computer was already taken away, and then my only other form of enjoyment literally died! That night, instead of hearing soft piano music come from my speakers, I heard the hard drive spin up and then get stuck, only to try and spin up and get stuck again, about 10 billion times. (Yes, I actually do listen to piano music at night. It helps me get to sleep.)

So, sometime Tuesday I think it was, I was all still devastated and trying to get it to work… and after having dropped it a few times, the drive trying to spin up was making a different noise than usual. “Oh, crap, I must’ve really screwed it up now,” I thought. But… as always, I was wrong.

So, then, a bit later, it goes back to making the other noise again, and then all of a sudden… instead of displaying the sad iPod icon, it instead displayed the much less harmless folder with an exclamation point! My first thought was, “OMG YAY MY IPOD IS STARTING TO WORK AGAIN HAPPY DAY.” My second thought was, “NOW I HAVE NO REASON TO GET A NEW IPOD.” >_>

So, yeah, now it works again. Haven’t had much trouble since… but I still want one of the new 5G’s that plays video. Rumors say that they’re gonna release one that plays video in fullscreen using the entire front of the iPod as a touchscreen display. Maybe I should wait for that… nah.