OT: This is what I think.....

[The Sushi Hunter]

I think that when the space ship crashed in Roswell NM, among other things, an ipod fell out. Humans couldn't have invented that, the majority of them need Jiffy Lube cause they can't even change their own motor oil, let alone invent a device the size of a single cassette tape that can hold countless albums on it.

The other day my wife got me a Sony Walkman (digital media player) as a gift for my trip to Japan (Thank you PunkyLove). When she gave it to me, I asked her if she was sure this was a good thing to be doing cause the last time I had any type of walkman, was in 1991. She downloaded every album I have into the thing. I'm the type who has only one or two songs that I like per cd that I own. This player she got me has a capacity of 16GB (whatever that means). That must be a lot of space cause after she had put 48 albums into it, it still has 11.5 GB of free space available. That's crazy shit man! So since she gave that to me, I've been listening to it and bringing it wherever I go. She also got me the car adaptor thing so I can listen to it in the car. The majority of the albums I got on there are from the 80's. A few from the early 90's. But I'm proud to say that the only album I got on there from 2008 is.....of course....Revelation!

That thing is just amazing, it blows my mind. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I thought I was hot shit bebopping around between Shinagawa and Yokohama with my Aiwa cassette walkman, a pack of spare batteries and two to three of my favorite cassette tapes on hand. But this player I have now, which is the size of a single cassette, holds an entire butt load of music, plus I can go from a song on one album to another song on a completely different album in a few seconds time. Not like back when I would have to press the stop button, then eject the cassette, put in a different one, hit rewind/fast forward, etc. It's amazing. One of these had to have fallen out when the space ship crashed.

[G.I.Jim]

Steve Perry is the one that authorized the landing of that ship. They were instructed to meet Steve in an undisclosed warehouse with the Ipod, and an MP3 player. The aliens haven't been seen since!

[bluejeangirl76]

Not like back when I would have to press the stop button, then eject the cassette, put in a different one, hit rewind/fast forward, etc.

I can beat that... my very first walkman had Play, Stop, and Rewind. If I wanted to fast forward past something I didn't want to hear, I had to take the tape out, flip it over, rewind, take it out, flip it back over, and HOPE I went far enough and as the same time not too far.

Now if the iPod would just stop cutting off random songs when I load the blasted thing, I would be all good to go.

[X factor]

Not like back when I would have to press the stop button, then eject the cassette, put in a different one, hit rewind/fast forward, etc.

I can beat that... my very first walkman had Play, Stop, and Rewind. If I wanted to fast forward past something I didn't want to hear, I had to take the tape out, flip it over, rewind, take it out, flip it back over, and HOPE I went far enough and as the same time not too far.

Now if the iPod would just stop cutting off random songs when I load the blasted thing, I would be all good to go.

And didn't the first Walkman's cost hundreds of dollars too?

[The Sushi Hunter]

Not like back when I would have to press the stop button, then eject the cassette, put in a different one, hit rewind/fast forward, etc.

I can beat that... my very first walkman had Play, Stop, and Rewind. If I wanted to fast forward past something I didn't want to hear, I had to take the tape out, flip it over, rewind, take it out, flip it back over, and HOPE I went far enough and as the same time not too far.

Now if the iPod would just stop cutting off random songs when I load the blasted thing, I would be all good to go.

And didn't the first Walkman's cost hundreds of dollars too?

Yeah, they were pretty expensive in the beginning. And yeah, I recall my very first walkman had the issue where you had to take out the tape and flip it around and then rewind and flip it back over in order to "fast forward" so to speek. The very last one I had was a deluxe Aiwa model cause it had the auto reverse function. Before that option was available, you either had to rewind when the tape ended, or pop out the tape, flip it over and put it back in to hear the other side. Either way, I still enjoyed those times though.