free the ipods I know you have all seen those people who are trying to get "free iPods." It seems like such a sweet deal, all you have to do is hound all of your soon-to-be ex-friends to sign up for a slew of credit cards, video rental programs, and kidney donation services, and then voila! you get a nice new iPod, and your now ex-friends get to hound all of their soon-to-be ex-friends to do the same thing for them.

But here's the problem: I don't want an iPod. I've tried using that lame iTunes piece of garbage, and every time I've opened it, it takes over every single music file on my computer. And apparently, ripping files is not known as "ripping files." Nope, Apple, trying to be different as usual, decided to call it something else. I forgot what they call it, but it's something stupid and lame, just like Apple is.

So I decided that I do not want an iPod. And don't beg me to sign up for your stuff so that you can have an iPod, because I don't want you to have one either.

However, I do want a Rio Karma. And just like the iPod people, I want it for free. But since there is no freeriokarmas.com website yet, I have devised my own way of getting a free Rio Karma: you people buy it for me. That's right, you've been reading this blog for free for far too long. I figure it's the least you owe me.

You can discuss amongst yourselves how you are going to divide the cost. I'll even allow you to use the "comments" to do so. I'll give you until the end of April to purchase and ship my free Rio Karma, but by April 30 I expect to have a shiny, new Rio Karma in my hands.

Thank you for your time. And for my Rio Karma.  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 3/25/2005