deadpod

I dropped my iPod last night getting off the tube. It was unprotected (despite the fact that I have a perfectly good shock-absorbing ipod carrier at home) and really took a major ding to the casing. The screen looked fine, but no amount of button-pushing seemed to bring it out of the seizure I think it was having. I could hear all sorts of things happening inside my little music machine, which persisted for a long time.

When I finally looked at it again right before going to bed, it had switched itself off. Cautiously optimistic, I attempted to turn it back on, and when it tried to sputter to life (with much noise and complaint), this picture appeared on the screen.

I am pretty confident that means my ipod is now a deadpod. May he rest in peace.