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Dear Mom:

Ever since I was very small, you would always have us making out Christmas lists so you knew what we wanted. This seemed like such a good idea, I've forced everyone around me to do the same (or at least, until Amazon wishlists came along and got world + dog into the habit anyways). That being the case, you'll note that a Sony Network Walkman[tm] was not on said list. The reasons for that are:

1) Sony sucks and we don't like them for their rootkit bullshit, so we are not buying their stuff.

2) I told you I was going to live and die with my Minidisc player, and didn't want an MP3 player, because I am a sucker for dinosaur formats.

3) Something I did not know before this appeared on my doorstep and I popped the seal, rendering it unfit for return--this isn't even an MP3 player. You have to take your enormous digital music library & transfer it into their fucking proprietary format (the "SonicStage Library[tm]"), thus taking up twice the disk space, before you can actually put it on the portable wossname.

I appreciate the thought, really I do, but this particular item shouldn't be owned by anyone, and it definitely shouldn't be owned by me.

Love you lots,

me.

Edit: God Bless Our Web! It seems there's a wotcha you can download to send it MP3s. You can only store about 1/3 the amount of music, but That's Okay.