Rocking like it's 2009

Like anything I participate in I inevitably take side quests. It turns out that this particular detour on LLSC26 happened almost instantly after launch. Whatever that says about my attention span I can't hear over the sound of my beautiful little red music square. Oh how I've missed my Zune! It's such a silly thing to be attached to but it's one of those formative pieces of technology that I got early on and I think it really helped shape my love for both music and technology. My first one I got in middle school, I think I was about 12, and it was an oblique black brick of a device. Everything about it save for the hard drive was built like a tank and I treated it like an absolute monster. And it comes as no surprise that that device eventually broke and I lost a collection of music I cared deeply about and then had to sit with the discomfort of not having it until my parents surprised me with one of the 120GB zunes later down the line. I tried my damnedest to treat that one with…