As I was digging through all of the MacWorld keynote coverage this morning, I came across the page for the new iPod shuffle. While I was reading, I saw this:
![iPod shuffle: Smaller than a pack of gum and much more fun.[2]](https://cdn.ryanparman.com/img/ipodshuffle.webp)
…which was rather clever, I thought. As I got towards the bottom of the page however, I began to laugh out loud much to my co-workers’ bewilderment. This is what I read:
![[2] Do not eat iPod shuffle.](https://cdn.ryanparman.com/img/ipodshuffle_donoteat.webp)
It’s an amazing world we live in, isn’t it?
Ryan Parman is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 280 characters. Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.