one ipod > zero ipods Through some combination of freakish irony and dumb luck, I ended up with a free iPod. I didn't earn it, and I didn't steal it, nor did I receive it as a gift, but I most certainly did not pay for it. I won it fair and square, so there. And this after I publicly lambasted Apple and everything it stands for. However, no matter what disdain I hold for Steve Jobs and his evil Apple henchmen, I still must admit that one iPod is indeed greater than zero iPods, which is what I had the day before before yesterday.

Needless to say, my supply of iPods is now one iPod higher than my self-assigned iPod limit, and I must therefore restore iPod equilibrium by dispensing of the iPod and finding an acceptable solution to my present over-iPoddedness.

So now my only choice is what to do with the iPod, since I already went and bought a Rio Karma. I briefly flirted with the idea of putting the same songs on the iPod as the Karma, then listening to the Karma in the left ear and the iPod in the right ear, thereby creating some sort of funky quasi-AAC/WMA-Apple/Rio super-stereo effect. But I discarded the idea after I realized just how idiotic and pointless that would be.

I am completely willing to entertain any ideas you might have for my iPod situation. However, I am unlikely to simply smash the thing to bits or drop it off a 42-story building. I like to break stuff as much as the next guy, but not expensive stuff. At least not expensive stuff I own. And don't tell me to give it to you. I'm not that nice.

So send me your ideas for what I should do with the excess iPod. I just may take your advice. And if I do and it gets me in trouble, it's your neck on the line, not mine.  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 7/25/2005