Technology!

[laceblade]

Yesterday, I was a consumer-whore, and I'm okay with it.

Firstly, in the realm of cheap things, I purchased a flower vase, cheese grater, and plant shelf at St. Vincent DePaul, which were obviously cheap.

I also used a Barnes & Noble gift card that I had received for my birthday to get two xxxHolic manga.

The largest purchase, of course, was my iPod.

I ended up getting an iPod Classic. I figured that if I was going to spend $200 on a 16 GB iPod Nano, I might as well spend $50 more, and get a bigger screen and 120 GB. By the way, my laptop has about 38 GB (I am still using the same laptop I purchased the summer before going to college), so my iPod has 3 times the amount of space as my laptop!

I think that this is the most amount of money I've spent in a store at once (obviously, I spend more on rent, car insurance, etc.).

I struggled a bit with what to name the iPod. My laptop is Watanuki, being basically a house servant. My Internet connection is Himawari, so that every time my laptop (Watanuki) connects to the Internet, it says, "You are connected to Himawari." BECAUSE I AM A SAP.

So at first, I was going to name the iPod Doumeki. But then Antoine pointed out that my iPod is small and black, so I named it Black Mokona instead. [I am waiting for something super badass to name "Yuuko."]

So far, for free, I have downloaded:
Episode 1 of Honey & Clover
A preview special for Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Episode 1 of Naruto: Shippuden

I am a fan of free stuff! Unfortunately, anime seems to be only available via iTunes in English dub, so that is pretty annoying. In the Honey & Clover English dub, all of the voice actors refer to each other by their first name, and it is skeeving me out. Like, "Shinobo." Yuuta Takemoto should not be calling him Shinobu, he should be calling him "Morita-sempai."

I am working on investigating podcasts next, in addition to putting my own music on it. I don't think I've ever listened to podcasts before, aside from Ron Moore's pretentious Battlestar Galactica ones.

Comments

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

If they had subtitles, could you even see them on the little screen, I wonder? Maybe you could. It's a nice screen and not THAT small. But I wonder if that's why they don't have it subtitled.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

I think that you could; Even the text like "Eject before disconnecting" is about the ratio to full screen that subtitles usually are.

When watching the Watchmen trailer in the store, I could read all of the "This preview is approved for all ages" text.

I think that at some point, I'll try putting a fansub on it, and see what happens. Since I had to re-install Windows about a month ago, though, I don't have any on my computer right now, so I'll have to go find some!

[littlebutfierce]

I love podcasts. Also, they are awesome for going to the gym (I empathize w/all the times you grumble about going/not going, cuz I have that problem too) b/c I can distract myself. :P

[jesse_the_k]

Also, there is copious podslash: the perfect soundtrack for fangirl workouts.

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/

[lavendersleeves.livejournal.com]

re: subs
a lot of subbers these days make the sub on a separate file within the file instead of a hard sub (permanently on the screen), which doesn't translate to ipods well. I've watched some subbed stuff on ipod and it's not that hard to read.

re: naming stuff.
My computer is Puck, my big hard drive is Gatts, the one after that is Sylphy, and my wireless modem is Griffith...but I cant't continue naming my computers on a Berserk theme because I've run out of characters who's names don't make me want to burst into tears.

[homo-nescius.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd call you a consumer whore for shopping at a thrift store and buying an i-pod.

Maybe if you'd bought the ipod 7 years ago...lol