when you talk geeky
At our secret society meeting tonight, we all clustered around an Intel iMac while drool slowly found its way towards the low spots in the carpet. The new iMac is quite fast, yes. I am envious, admittedly, but am also content with my current PowerBook. It’s certainly a trooper. (But a trooper could always be well-complemented by a commander, or mothership).
And, yes, I have my finger on the ready for these final hundred thousand-song marks on the iTunes Billion Song Giveaways. Since I’ve been sending in those free entries from day-one, I can’t recall a time when the counter has had such momentum. They are moving a thousand songs in about 13 or 14 seconds right now (@ 999,528,7xx). This is phenominal. I get the impression that this rate (Mach 3, perhaps?) will certainly lock down the iTMS a few thousand before the billionth song purchase, ala the 100,000,000 contest and the 500,000,000 contest. But I’ll be all the more ready.
I’ll also make sure my song purchase attempt for the 1B song is something cool and exciting, just in case I win and my purchase gets front page headlines the world over. I’ll steer clear of Ashlee Simpson music urges and shoot for something more exciting and engaging. Maybe I’ll buy “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred or, even better, “I’m So Proud” by Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, the types of tracks that would make people think, “Yeah, that Ryan Harne… he’s one fine dude.” Etc. Etc.
And the ticker is at 999,570,6xx.
February 23rd, 2006 at 4:30 am
They just reached their billionth song!
February 23rd, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Dammit, I marked assignments right through the 1B song download. I was planning on getting the latest Strokes album as my entry. What did you end up going for?
February 24th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Stew - I actually ended up forgetting to download a song. I had the correct iTMS window open to get either “I’m So Proud” or “It’s Raining Men” by Arnold Schwarzenegger (”up . down .up . down … now, remember this is one of my favorite exercises that made me blast my biceps up to 22 inches!”). But I was doing the free entries constantly the last 12,000 songs or so. Oh well. Congrats to the kid who won.
February 25th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
I can’t believe I totally missed the rollover. Ah, well….
Oh, and “Oh What A World” is probably my favorite song by Rufus.