Following up with J's "WTF topic of the day" I came across a rather sickening article today. Talk about one steaming heap of flaming bad luck dropped on your doorstep with a note attached made of coal and uranium with writing etched in boiling blood saying: "Your lives are hereby forfeit. Have a nice day. - WalMart A.K.A America" and when you look up you see a Lamborghini peeling out of your driveway with the WalMart Smiley Face flicking a cigar out the window and flipping you the bird.
Wow. Just: wow. Way to be the biggest dick imaginable, WM. I'm sure they're reasoning goes something along the lines of "Well, if we shelled out for every unfortunate sucker who gets nailed by a truck and has a living being sprung forth from their womb blown to bits halfway across the world (and has to constantly re-live being told that for the first time due to the injury), where would our company be then?" I think you mean to say "How will I get my 7th iPhone, my 5th house slave, my upgraded fantasy package from my call-girl service, and my plot of land on the future Mars mining colony this year then?" Why not just come out and say it? You've already got your head far enough up your ass that you can see what all those complimentary doughnuts are doing to your arteries, you just look like more of an idiot trying to mask your fuck-headed nature at this point. But hey, watch those falling prices, right?
In other news, I found a steal of a bargain on a new MP3 player. I currently have a 1gb Creative Muvo which I nabbed way back in the day for about $140. That's kind of disgusting to think about nowadays, but this was about 4 years ago when the only other real option were $300 iPods or similarly priced Creative alternatives. I'll tell you what: my Muvo rocks. This thing is still pounding away and will kick the shit out of an iPod shuffle any day of the week with its *gasp!* lcd screen so I can see what I'm listening to and actually change settings, it's FM tuner, Equalizer presets, line-in recorder, voice recorder, and folder-mode playlist sorting. And it came with a rubber slip cover/belt clip AND armband. I'm definitely keeping it as my workout MP3 player, but......
Well, lo and behold 4 years later and I'm dicking around on the internet and I find this. Please also check out the CNET review. I went with the 8gb refurbished model for $95. "Oh, no, B-Moto, not REFURBISHED!" Yes, refurbished. I've got so many refurbed tech products for massive discounts that have NEVER caused problems, it's not even funny. In fact, I have never had any refurbed gear that has gone bad. Granted, I only get gear from manufacturers that I know make quality products to begin with, but still. So, compared to this model's direct competitor, the iPod Nano, I can firmly say again:
Eat my shit, Apple.
I'll put up a more specific review once I get the thing, but just look at the specs. Beautiful screen, customizable interface, excessive non-proprietary software/data format compatibility, SD card slot expansion capability, FM tuner, Voice recorder, and half the price of the nano. If you MUST be a slave to trends, maintain your hipster status, and feel like you can justify sacrificing all those nice features for a touch-scroll wheel (Though I'll admit, it's pretty nice, and I don't know why Creative decided to do away with their competing touch-scroll bar), then you can save a little pocket change and sell yourself to Apple for a little less than usual.
That's all for today. PEACE!
- B-spot out.
"No, you touch it"
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