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The Prettiest Thing I Own (and the prettiest thing I don't)

Categories: Just Plain Cool, Technical

Turned 31, got some dough from my folks and spent it on... A video iPod. Just like the one hopefully pictured here, except mine's in black.

But it's pretty. Soooooooo pretty. So, freakin' pretty. While on my lunch break at my office, I can watch last weeks episode of "The Office" (incidentally, is anyone else beginning to like the American version more than the British version?)

Now, you may or may not already know, but I already have an iPod, one of the 4G iPods (20GB, click-wheel, yadda, yadda), so I guess I'm gonna be selling that or something. Anyone in the market? You'll get the iPod, charger, a firewire cable, a cool doohickey that receives FM radio, a case, the original box and most importantly: brand new unopened, unused iPod earbuds. That's big because no matter your affection for me personally, you almost definitely don't love my earwax.

Now onto the prettiest thing I don't own: My new high-definition CRT television. Technically it's neither new nor mine, but it's sitting on my entertainment center hooked up to my cable box and my DVD player, so it's more than close enough. How did this magical thing happen? Well, my friend Jason is the actual owner of this nice TV, but he's decided to upgrade to a sexier, bigger, flatter plasma. So he decided that my living room was the perfect place to "store" his "old" tv. So some day, when he wakes up and realizes that you don't just give people HDTVs unless you win the lottery, the World Series of Poker or inherit an HDTV factory, I'll have to give it back. Hopefully by then I'll have one of my own, 'cuz I can tell you right now that I can't go back.

posted by Mark Kawakami at January 24, 2006, 12:01 AM // permalink // (3) Comments

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