Recently, my life was described online as such:

[…] your perspective is skewed because your life has been a literal fairy tale compared to other lives. And you even admit that. So when I talk to you about my troubles, a lot of times, from your perspective, I get really frustrated at your advice because it’s naive.

I thought I’d take the time to respond to this characterization.  My life is not a fairy tale. I have not been granted servants, magic fairy godmothers, easily summarizable plot and lesson outlines, and I don’t eek out an existance in a fable.  While I may somewhat physically resemble certain fairy tale characters (think Shrek), I’m not super lucky, despite my great well-aspected Mars and Jupiter placement in the 5th house.

Good.  Now that we’ve gotten THAT out of the way, I wanted to blog about this new Microsoft 8GB Zune 2 I won recently.  It’s so awesome! I use it all the..

what?

What do you mean, “see what I mean?!?!?” ?  Doesn’t EVERYone win stuff like this when they go out and live life?  I went to a local Microsoft event on “Get Healthy Stay Healthy” and my name was drawn to win the Zune.  Oh, and I also got a fully licensed copy of Office Ultimate 2007 (the whole box and everything!)  So it’s not like I won a CAR or something.  I did that LAST year, sheesh.

So I’m loving this Zune.  My daughter has a video iPod nano and it’s really cool… I was thinking about getting a big Zune last year but decided against it.  Then I saw the video iPod nano and just about fell in love with it.  Then I won this one and love it EVEN more than I thought I would.

Pretty much, after playing with both of them, the only difference I can tell is that the Zune has wireless and FM Radio.  Everything else is basically the same.  There are more indepth comparisons online but I really only care about what *I* see is different.  I use the FM but so far I don’t use the wireless, but it does allow for wireless sync, and I may start playing with it.

Probably the biggest “new” thing due to this acquisition is that I am now VERY much into podcasts, and that’s the biggest thing I’m using it for.  I’m listening to StarPower (Guitar Hero podcast), Bill Maher, Skeptics Guide, a few Microsoft podcasts, Mind of Root, Astronomy podcast and a few others… and it’s inspired me to want to participate in a couple podcasts, probably with technology and astrology.

One thing that caught my eye was the “Hello from Seattle” little signature on the back.  Now that is so cute…

My 13yr old has a video iPod - whatever it’s called - iPod Grande or something, I don’t know this new starbucks Apple lingo.  It’s the one that’s small, 8GB, has a video screen and a dial on the front.  Yeah, I know, “real helpful” right?

Ok I looked it up and it’s an iPod nano video.

(note: no actual hands or wrists were cut at the bottom while making this picture)

Anyway, I was bored so I borrowed it because she’s subscribed to “bestofyoutube.com” podcasts and has all these funny short clips on it.

This one caught my eye (as did many others) so I thought I’d share it.

This is something that could easily be one of those competitions where people come up with the funniest dubs.  There’s that one of Hitler and the downfall of the Cowboys which, although it contains some foul language in the subtitles, is pretty darned creative and funny.