It used to be not as bad. The one time my ipod photo shit out, i went on ebay, bought a couple broken ones and replaced the two parts I knew didn't work. Got another 2 years out of the thing after that.

I've had an iPod shit out on me before then (I had an iPod photo before that, which was cool too) but, knock on wood, this one has served me well.

So you're telling me the mobile games market they promised us isn't going to take off now? Aw, hamburgers.

It's an awesome car companion. On road trips, once we lose the good stations, just plug it in and hit shuffle on your whole library. My 250gb one is still one of my most treasured items, 7 years later.

And mine survived batterings, sitting in hot cars in the sun, and aggressive use for 7 years and it's still chugging along, no problem.

The impossibly high standards of not smashing your fiancee in the face and dragging her out of an elevator?

The culture has created this weird paradigm where if you have an Apple product it "means something." I've owned both over the years, and only upgraded when I saw something more interesting I wanted, or just wanted a change.

Exactly. I don't get how bigger = better. On a practical level, an extra inch on your screen isn't much - but in your hand, you can definitely feel it. I get that some large portion of the userbase accesses the internet primarily through smartphones, and naturally are watching video and pictures and shit on this thing…

I have big hands and was assured I'd get used to my Nexus 4's size. I said ok. I'm still not, years later. I'm a one-handed typer - like a lot of people. If they could cut the difference between that and my Nexus 4, I'd probably be happy.

They're almost never first-to-market. They weren't first on smartphones, personal computers, tablets, or this, but they come around make stuff more user-friendly.

It's a pretty fascinating book, tracking how human populations grow alongside rat populations, and dispels a lot of irrational fear in rats (replacing them with new, scientifically observed ones).

I get that Eph would be distracted by the booze (and in theory, the scene could have worked) but his reaction closing the scene should have been "Pour faster."

Hassan is a boob.

I feel like there are better horror shows, doing more interesting things that are in the "dumb but fun to kill a day with" shows.

Omelette you finish, but you're in the wrong here.

Once you go black hat, you never go back… hat.

The G train doesn't have to play by your rules of public transportation.

It's at least pulpier, but Walking Dead Season 1 is legitimately good. Compared to current Walking Dead, I'd say The Strain is better.

It was smart-thinking for the doctors and the asskickers to put the seemingly useless one to work with menial tasks.

This episode seemed to get that its dumb moments are easier to ignore when you wrap them in kicking vampire ass.