With A Little Help From My Friends

Hey, the last post has a happy ending. I found a mysterious box on my desk today, which usually means I have some new yeast-food or chemical to mutagenize myself with. Today, though, the mystery box had a brand-new 30-gig iPod in it!

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Some very awesome friends of mine gave me a very surprising, and very unexpected birthday gift. So to Scott, Tricia, Kyle, Lisa, Geoff, Anneli, Amy, Jackie, Helen, Greg, Erin, Jean-Sebastien, Geneviève, Jeremiah, and Taïca: Thank you. I have dubbed it “Starship Superfriends!”



Because, how do you feel at the end of the day, are you sad because you’re all alone? No, I get by with a little help from my friends.

No More iPod

Man, my iPod got stolen yesterday. That sucks!

With three of us sitting less than ten feet away, no less, on the other side of a divider.

So here’s to you, old iPod, you served me well for almost three years! I bought you back in the Spring of 2004, when all things flash memory, mini, nano, colour, video, and click-wheel were still just a glimmer in Jonathan Ive’s eyes. I’ll miss your glowing red buttons, and the way your battery would run out almost instantaneously when I tried to change tracks in the middle of a Montreal winter.

There was a line engraved on the back of you, “One by one, to one by one, forever be”, which gives me an excuse to quote from the song the line was taken from:

        One by one the teardrops fall as I write you
        One by one my words come falling on the page
        One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight
        One by one my schemes are fading fast away

From just the snippet posted here, it’s kind of depressing, but the song isn’t really, though it’s definitely melancholy. It’s more about how, in a big, lonely world, love is one of the few things that lasts.