I bought an iPod last night. 40gb photo version. To cut a long story short, my discman and a couple of CDs were stolen just after I had coffee with a friend. Of course they were the new CDs I had bought on Saturday and brought into work luckily enough to import so I have copies of them. About \u00a340 worth of CDs and a broken shitty old discman. Insurance should cover it all. It makes me smile a little to think how happy they’ll be to have gotten away with a couple of old Irish folk music cds. Anyway my flatmate is off home to the US next week. I had planned on getting her to bring me an iPod back thus saving a good few quid because of stupidly high prices in the UK. But that would mean it would be 3 weeks before I had anything to listen to going to and from work and indeed anywhere else. So figuring the money I would save getting it from the US would be the cost of the CDs and a new discman again, I went to HMV<\/p>\n
Apple are *so* good at design. Even opening the box was a thing of beauty so well laid out and put together, much kudos to them for that. I’ve filled it with 33gb now today between my work computer and my home computer. Quite impressed by the photo part. I only threw on a couple to see what it was like and it’s good quality, as good as what I see on my digital camera when I take one. So that’s cool. But it’s just a music player and that’s all it will ever be for me.<\/p>\n
At this point tho, I would to state: THIEVING CUNTS!<\/p>\n
Apparently carrying a camera all the time is freaky. I’m not using it as much as I’d like but it is there in my pocket anytime I do want to. Always handy for those kodak moments etc.<\/p>\n
I managed to find away around my reading block too. I went to Borders and after a good 20 minutes moping around the fiction I hit upon history. So I’m reading Tim Pat Coogan’s 1916: The Easter Rising<\/i>. He’s a great author and easily the foremost on modern Irish History. I’ve read several of his books to date and always enjoyed them. I also picked up Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories From A Warzone<\/a> as the cover caught my eye and it sounded interesting. So hopefully those two will get me back into the mood and I’ll get going again. I really wish I had not gotten that Richard Morgan preview, I’d have loved to pick it up last night or the time before and get stuck into it. Ah well.<\/p>\n Tonight, pool with the lads. It should be fun and so far we still have most people going along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought an iPod last night. 40gb photo version. To cut a long story short, my discman and a couple of CDs were stolen just after I had coffee with a friend. Of course they were the new CDs I had bought on Saturday and brought into work luckily enough to import so I have … Continue reading “Yes father, I shall become a bat!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}