Last May on my way to TieCon2006 I broke my iPod headphones while boarding my Southwest flight, so I quickly bought a replacement pair from the Sony store.
The darn thing broke Wednesday night, so I’ve had to walk around sans iPod for the last two days. Getting on the bus, walking to school, even hanging around on campus, it was like entering a whole new world of sound, catching earfuls upon earfuls of hushed conversations, loud conversations, scampering squirrels, all that.
Needless to say, I hustled over to Best Buy the first chance I got, and am now the proud owner of $10 Philips earbuds that sound better than the broken Sony ones (that’s to say, even before they got broken), and do a decent job of blocking out sound. My life has a soundtrack again!
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