{"id":140,"date":"2004-02-26T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=140"},"modified":"2005-12-30T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:58:03","slug":"obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/obituary","title":{"rendered":"Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a little busy procrastinating lately, so here’s an entry from Sirk<\/a>, one of my devoted readers:<\/p>\n

My iPodMini<\/a> passed away this morning at the ripe old age of 5 days. In those 5 days it played 2 complete songs and 20 minutes of an audiobook, twice completed syncs with no songs present on the hard drive and had to be restored once. It is survived by an iRiver iFP-395T. Requiscat in pace and may God<\/a> have mercy on Steve Jobs’ soul.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a little busy procrastinating lately, so here’s an entry from Sirk, one of my devoted readers: My iPodMini passed away this morning at the ripe old age of 5 days. In those 5 days it played 2 complete songs and 20 minutes of an audiobook, twice completed syncs with no songs present on … <\/p>\n

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