my nomad finally kicked the bucket due to straight up wear and tear over two years of nearly continuous use
fortunately, my dad had the foresight to get the two year replacement plan when he got it as my christmas gift in 2004, so off to best buy i rolled to look into some other digital media player
now, to give you an idea of what my local best buy is like, they follow the more or less constant retail law that dictates that no large store can contain every single thing that you need; if it does then it's gonna close a week after it opens because it burns down in a freak accident or something
in this case, it has a fucking excellent console game selection, pretty good range of music, great movies, good PC games, good large-scale consumer electronics, and
shit for portable electronics
this meant that i was looking at something from creative that played video and had 40 gigs of space but was like $350, a bunch of tiny little things that can hold approximately three songs and would disappear upon being pocketed, and a 30 gig ipod video for $250
in a hilarious twist of fate this meant that the best dollar-to-space ratio available was the fucking ipod, so off i went
the end
