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A Bit of History

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

I checked my personal records. I purchased my first-generation, “stick’o’gum” iPod shuffle on Saturday April 23, 2005. It probably cost $150 or something outrageous like that. On the same day, we ate barbequed corn and “shaking beef”, played “Lost Cities” and “Carcassonne”, played the demo of “Meteos” on the DS and watched “Iron Chef”, which [...]

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Stick of Gum

Monday, April 6, 2009

How I loved my 1GB shuffle. It was the first generation “stick o’ gum” model. Nothing more than a slickly-designed USB memory stick with playback controls and a headphone jack. But perfect for holding enough podcasts to get me to work and back again, and then some. More recent models have gone down the minituarisation [...]

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Dead Shuffle

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Gak, my iPod Shuffle just died. I usually listen to a podcast while cleaning up after dinner, to distract me from the fact that D. is watching some American Soap Opera or other. No luck tonight – just a flashing orange light. Thinking the battery low, I plugged it into the old iMac for a [...]

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