Two-ty Four, As Hank Would Say
December 1, 2008 by Douglas · Leave a Comment
In honor of my oldest nephew Hank, I offer this gift idea on the two-ty fourth day before Christmas.
See my little pal Hank just couldn’t or wouldn’t conform with society and accept the pronunciation of his “twenties”. If there’s a forty-one, and a sixty-nine etc, certainly there is no such thing as a “twenty” – surely it was actually enunciated as two-ty-one and two-ty-two. Granted Hank was in kindergarten, but he was determined to say it his own way and flat out told his teachers that they were absolutely wrong.
So here we go with this next installment of great gift ideas for Christmas 2008…
Today’s great gift idea as voted on by me, is the Zune by Microsoft. A rival to the Apple iPod, this sweet little MP3 playing mamma-jamma is sleek and swingin’ like a seventies married couple. It is for sure my favorite MP3 player out there, even though it doesn’t play games (yet) like that stupid new Apple iPod Touch. Sure the iPod is sweet and all – but I’m not ready to conform just yet.
That last remark doesn’t sound very educated though. Conforming. And here I am supporting the Beast, Microsoft. Oh well, the Zune is worth it, I’ll stake my online reputation on it.
The Zune is pretty spendy compared to the cheap-o brands like Panasonic MP3 players, but you really do get a lot of bang for your buck. Again like many products out there, especially technology, you’ll find that the larger and better models of MP3 players do not exponentially increase in price with added features and storage. The 120 GB Zune costs approximately $250 when not on sale, while the meager 16 GB flavor is a blistering $200-ish. Even the ancient in-comparison 80 GB Zune from two years ago is STILL selling at $200+. Dude, take the 120 GB version. You get a larger screen and a ton more storage.
If you are on a budget, get one of the tinier Zunes and preload it with your recipient’s favorite tunes or movies. Hope that they like MP3 players though, cause you’re going to have to crack the packaging to do that, but who doesn’t want the gift of music? Only devil worshipers and communists, that’s who.
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