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.