Slices of Heaven

On my ride today, I had contact with various bits of heaven.

-I rode by the local McCormick plant - you know, the spice people, and it smelled a bit heavenly.
-The heavens opened up, and I got quite wet.
-As usual, the locals tried to send me to heaven with their car doors, stepping into traffic blindly, turning in front of me, and various other shenanigans.
-My fiveish year old iPod (the first click wheel - 4g?) again refused to head off to heaven to give me the justification to get a new one, despite the water that it was exposed to for an hour or so. Why are iPod batteries so good and Macbook batteries so bad?