Ok, I’m both amazed and very happy.
Just when I am due to do a bunch of travelling for work (London-Glasgow) and for fun (London-Embra-Newark), the worst thing of all possible bad things happens: my iPod stops working. And – doubly cruel – just when I’ve cleared out the Amazon wish list of CDs and they’re all sitting in exciting virgin cases.
And not just a glitch mind you, but a proper “unhappy iPod” (see icon above). So you try the magic reset (hold Select and Menu for 6 seconds) and nothing. You try the ‘mount in disk mode’ with the additional Select-and-Play step. But all this pansy finger-dancing gets you fucking nowhere and the iPod’s puss stays resolutely soor.
Then you find the advice they don’t give you on the Apple website, viz.: smack it.
Sometimes the hard disk arm inside the drive gets stuck. If your iPod makes an audible whining, ping noise at startup, that’s it. The good news is that a sharp movement fixes the problem 90% of the time. It’s a satisfying fix. Imagine that your distorted reflection on the back of the iPod is actually the evil twisted face of Goldstein and give him a firm rap in the puss. Problem solved.
So my advice is turn off album artwork (as the iPod is crap at buffering the mp3 and loading the jpeg at the same time) and if it ever starts giving you shit, smack its shiny ass.
08-Mar-07 at 10:23 am | Permalink
That’s hilarious. I had the exact same problem last week and ended up doing exactly the same thing. Works a treat.
08-Mar-07 at 10:45 am | Permalink
> I had the exact same problem last week and ended up doing exactly the same thing.
with an ipod?
08-Mar-07 at 11:06 am | Permalink
My £20 CD Walkman is still going strong after all these years : )
08-Mar-07 at 12:05 pm | Permalink
>£20 CD Walkman
Old technology is great, my new flatmate appears to have a passion for it. She’s got one of those old tellingphones with the numbers that go round (looks nice but it does take ages to dial a mobile) and an answering machine that takes full size cassette tapes. She also appears to collect Walkmans (or should that be Walkmen?) complete with brightly coloured headphones.
Has anyone else noticed these posts come from the future? Spooky.
08-Mar-07 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
> with an ipod?
Lol.
Jill: my tiny arm, it is stuck *whine* *ping*
*smack*
08-Mar-07 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
> these posts come from the future
Pesky daylight savings. Should be fixed now *crosses fingers*
13-Mar-07 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
Old technology is great, my new flatmate appears to have a passion for it. > No she is just poor. Call her names like MINK and every time she touches you, spray yourself with an imaginery can. PShhhhhhhhh.
14-Mar-07 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
Oooh, then dance rings around her singing MINKY MINKY (insert name) and whisper to all your friends who come to visit, then point. Say something like her mum buys her pants from Tesco or similar. Yes.
14-Mar-07 at 8:23 pm | Permalink
that goddamn hummers messin’ up my tune!?
how on earth to crikey does one have to do to get a phone call.
Peace y’out .
15-Mar-07 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
>MINKY MINKY (insert name)
Her name’s Giselle, which all boys get quite excited about for some reason.
15-Mar-07 at 7:34 pm | Permalink
minky minky giselle?? next to minky minky Tamara, minky minky Mimi and minky minky Jemima, that is the lest appropriate minky minky name i’ve ever heard. Hmm.