That’s when I was told that I was, in fact, in imminent receipt of one. One of the new little 1GB iPods that has generated so much recent press and so many knowing nods amongst the cognoscenti, the gadget-happy, and the stark raving Mac fanatics. We were all going to get one. Free, gratis. The mothership was showering the nifty widgets upon all its worker drones who so ceaselessly contribute to the collective. You know, I may just be starting to like this place all of a sudden.
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The Lair of the Cubelodyte » Blog Archive » Podlings on September 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 PM #
[...] Our iPods arrived today. Productivity plummeted, as practically every person in the building queued up to get their free, sleek little talisman of style from our office manager. Incidentally, the things happen to play music, too. Like most everyone else, I took my Podlet back to my cubicle, admiring it in its package for a few moments, before opening it up, savoring the acrid whiff of plastic that accompanies new electronics. Ahhh, iPod. I removed it from its impeccably stylish packaging, and plugged it into the free USB port on my G4’s keyboard. [...] |
I was minding my own business at my desk yesterday morning, wondering how I was going to bluster my way through another day without anybody noticing I was contributing nothing remotely useful to society, when a colleague asked me about my iPod. This struck me as rather odd, since I don’t own one, and have gone on record as saying I can’t really see any justification for purchasing one.