So, technically, before I get started in London, I have a small, but neat story to tell about the airport in Dallas/Ft. Worth. A while ago, I had managed to wash my poor ol' iPod Nano that I had bought just after high school, and it didn't make it. RIP iPod. I went iPodless for a good time, but then, what did I see in Dallas/Ft. Worth but a vending machine full of iPods and PSPs?
Now, my initial thought was that these iPods and such would be ludicrously expensive. It's a vending machine in a freaking airport, after all. But then, much to my surprise, I take a closer look and realize that they're selling 6G iPod Nanos for $149.99, exactly the same price that they're selling them for online! So... needless to say, I bought one. It was the niftiest, most futuristic vending machine I had ever seen... it picked it up with this neat little arm thing and then shifted it over and dumped it gently into the slot.
Overall, it reminded me that I live in the 21st century. I just bought a portable music player smaller than my hand with a hard drive that can hold more memory than every computer they used in the moon landings for less than $200.00 out of a vending machine in the airport. Pretty dang awesome, if I may say so myself.
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When we were your age, we couldn't buy our Ipods from vending machines - we had to drive our airbagless cars through the snow to K-Mart and actually sign a piece of paper to put it ou our credit cards issued by solvent banks
Solvent banks? You really are old, Tim. ;)
--Bill
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