{"id":1606,"date":"2007-06-14T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/14\/ipod-nano-babblings\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:19:41","slug":"ipod-nano-babblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/ipod-nano-babblings\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Nano Babblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am totally in love with my new green 4G iPod nano. I love it, totally love it.<\/p>\n<p> I only wish that I had gotten the one with more capacity. I am very close to crossing the limit already, and I&#8217;m only about halfway through my CD collection. I&#8217;ve had to redo a couple of the songs &#8211; some of my favorite CDs are a little beat up.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I can keep more on my computer, and just check the songs I want to synch to my iPod. In fact I&#8217;m thinking of slaving an old hard drive specifically for this purpose. <\/p>\n<p>4 gigs is still a decent selection &#8211; about a 1000 songs, or a little less because I want to display the cover art too.<\/p>\n<p>It took me about three minutes to familiarize myself with how to change the volume and so on. The mouse-like wheel makes things very easy. <\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m a little quiet here, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve discovered (and rediscovered) so much music &#8211; even in my own collection. I&#8217;m totally immersed. I was out dancing on the deck again last night. This will make housework a lot more bearable, I can tell you that right now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already got my complete Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and Zombies collections synched, with their own playlists. Ahhhh. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Smashmouth did a version of &#8220;I&#8217;m a Believer&#8221; (Monkees)? Yeah, ok, it dates me and it&#8217;s not cool or anything like that, but I&#8217;ve never been cool anyway and I love this song.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there is a WordPress plugin to display what&#8217;s playing? Hmm. I&#8217;ll look into that. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lullaby&#8221; (The Cure) just finished.<br \/>\nNow &#8220;Itsy Bitsy Spider\/Coming Around Again&#8221; (Carly Simon) is playing.<br \/>\n&#8220;P**s on the Wall&#8221; (J.Geils) is up next.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the next ten on random play are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I am the Walrus (Jim Carey) &#8211; This is a bit of a find, I think.<\/li>\n<li>Undertow (Suzanne Vega) &#8211; Ethereal trancey pop<\/li>\n<li>Smokey Day (Zombies) &#8211; I love the Zombies, still. This is one of the best.<\/li>\n<li>Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (KT Tunstall) &#8211; This is a terrific song! (thank you, Bonbon)<\/li>\n<li>In the Summertime (Roger Miller) &#8211; Childhood memories &#8211; good ones.<\/li>\n<li>Armageddon Days Are Here Again (The The) &#8211; Oh, that voice. <\/li>\n<li>Sister Moon (Sting) &#8211; I would love to sing this myself<\/li>\n<li>Feelin&#8217; Way Too Da*n Good (Nickelback) &#8211; Love, love, love &#8211; and more love<\/li>\n<li>Candy-O (The Cars) &#8211; I died the first time I heard this described as an &#8220;oldie&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sad Lisa (Cat Stevens) &#8211; Plays my heartstrings every time<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Oh, yeah! And more than 900 more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am having so. much. fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am totally in love with my new green 4G iPod nano. I love it, totally love it. I only wish that I had gotten the one with more capacity. I am very close to crossing the limit already, and I&#8217;m only about halfway through my CD collection. I&#8217;ve had to redo a couple of the songs &#8211; some of my favorite CDs are a little beat up. Of course, I can keep more on my computer, and just check&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/ipod-nano-babblings\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5,1,6,27],"tags":[3920,3896,6184],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-leftovers","category-personal","category-virushead","tag-fan","tag-ipod","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}