iPod Update

[kaitou]

So I managed a week without an iPod, and that's about as long as I could take. Saturday I drove down to Columbus where they have an Apple store. (and a book store since I couldn't find my copy of Good Omens) And wow, is the Apple store ever.....Apple.

There wasn't any place to go GET what you wanted, and no where to go check out either. But after a few minutes I tracked down one of the blue shirted Apple people, who grabbed a new Nano for me and took me to another guy, who seemed to be standing in a random area of the store. He was already helping another customer, and to my surprise a cash register drawer suddenly slid out of the side of one of the pine tables. Once he was done with the other customer and started to check me out I said:

"That's a pretty slick cash register."
"Yeah, but you have to be careful, it works on remote control, so you can accidentally trigger it across the room. And it's just at the right level to brain a little kid."

He proceeded to check me out using his iPhone and a tiny portable credit card machine. Then he asked if I wanted the receipt printed out, or just sent by e-mail, so he ended up just sending me the receipt with his iPhone too. It was all very slick and minimalist and pretentious. Can't wait till I have saved up for a Macbook.

The Nano itself is pretty cool, though I kind of miss the old design. This is about halfway between the size of a postage stamp and a post-it note with a touch screen and a clip on the back. The clip is a bit tricky to work without feeling like you're going to damage the screen. But you can rotate the display on the screen to be right side up no matter what direction it's facing. And you can shake it to get a random song.

I didn't actually get pink this time (I know!) but the pink is kind of a pepto color instead of a hot pink. So instead I got a nice golden orange color.

After that I went up to Dublin Ohio and bought some pretty storm colored yarn that I have no idea what to do with, and a decadent dish of funky gourmet ice cream. I got a 'study' of 4 flavors... lavendar, mango lassi, goat cheese with cherries, and a plum lambic sorbet that you could still taste the alcohol in. Not a bad day, all told.

Comments

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

Hee, totally sounds like a great day. I like the photo of combined win. ♥

[anchan218.livejournal.com]

Agree on the photo. :)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I love my camera on my phone. It is great to just to take a quick snapshot of something silly and send it to someone without having to upload it to the computer.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I had just sat down with the ice cream when flidget pinged me (since my phone does chat and never logs me off) so I thought I'd give photographic evidence XD

I also have a picture from a day when I got Atomic Robo TPBs and a decadent chocolate sundae XD

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just read a thing in the paper about those credit card readers for the iPhone. Apparently, they make them right here in Paw Paw (of all places).

That ice cream sounds amazing! But dang, I really want a mango lassi now. :(

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Me too! I need to get back to a big city and get some Indian food.

[velithya]

for a second there I was like, but it's not orange, it's white! And then I realised that the nano (I initially capitalised it "NaNo", cough) was actually the tiny thing inside it! AMAZING

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

XD Yeah, they were like 'do you want a bag?' Um...no. This fits in my pocket

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I think I'd like all those flavors but I'm not so sure about the goat cheese with cherries one. I've gotten a bit addicted to Panera's Mango smoothies which are very much like mango lassis. All in all it sounds like a great day and the photo is excellent, too!