im a sentimental fuck yes i know, and right now im looking lovingly at this minidisk player.(MWAH) God i love it, even when Ipods came out and made mp3 that much more portable, i still stuck by my MD walkman and blew off my mates who tried to sell me on the Ipods seemingly numerous and obvious advantages. Sure, there were plenty of good points in their fanatical rhetoric but i had an emotional counter always at hand. Just like every good ex catholic boy should.

On the matter of size, my MD was roughly about half the height, and when told of the size of storage on the Ipod, a ridiculously phenomal figure in terms of how many songs can be kept... it drew only a knowing and arrogant smirk from me...and coyly I began telling them that size was not everything.

The fact that with the Ipod, downloading from any PC was an instantaneous and painless exercise, only brought swift and cutting remarks about what it is that i really hate about this world, which led to a Zen Bhudist like commentary on how nobody seems to appreciate the slow path anymore. Everyones so now, now, now and me, me, me. Guys, separate yourselves from the cess pool for one god damn minute and smell the beautiful roses yeah..

it saves pictures too, well whoopdeefuckindoo...if i want to save pictures i'll use a phone.

But the beauty was (and really my arguement had only one valid saving grace) that the MD records CD quality sound, without compression, which ultimately means that the debate was really between quality vs quantity. i rode off into the sunset, big balls hanging off either side of my pony.

But after all that, i still got myself an MP3 player.