Saturday, September 10, 2005

Master Li and Number Ten Ox I hadn't realized that Barry Hughart had written a third book with this duo. I found it at McKay's (the local large used book store). I also got another Bond book (Goldfinger)... someone in Knoxville is working their way thru the trade paperback reprints... so I'm replacing my much older paperbacks with them as they show up. And another part of "Battle Angel Alita" (An English adaptation, unlike the English translation of the manga the last one I bought was... so it actually reads from left to right.) What else? A copy of the original "Highlander" movie with Christopher Lambert. Really cheap. Not the "extra special Immortal version with the Queen CD"... just the movie. Used book stores can be tricky... you can't always buy books / movies in order. There is no guarantee something will be there the next time you go... so if you are trying to get a whole series of books cheap... it can take a while. (e.g. I'm still missing 4 of the Fleming Bond books with several gaps in the middle.) 9:14:33 PM    Notes [] For comparison purposes only... Sitting on the box the Nano comes in. It's the same size as the Shuffle's box. The outer slip-cover actually has a life-size image of the Nano on it. Embossed front and side views. (The nano is thinner than the shuffle. You'll have to check Apple's website for Shuffle and Nano specs if you want exact dimensions... I don't have a ruler handy...) Haven't quite figured out the prayer/thumb wheel on the Nano... I don't use the 'ear buds' that come with these things (Or my PSP)... they make my ears hurt... I like my music pain-free... so I bought a pair of cheap 'clip-on' headphones. (I have a much better pair of real headphones I use at work with my PC...). Worth the $9 I spent on them. Not the best picture... my (3 year old) digital camera doesn't do close-up shots very well... I guess that is next on the replace list (Christmas?) Is it an iPod or a PDA? I bought it to play music... (and other audio things)... I'd heard that you can put contact info on it (Anything you can put in vCard format) and calendar info (though I have no idea how to do that...)... It looks like you can also put text files on it... kind of a small screen to read eBooks on but... possible. The real surprise... there are several games... standard simple stuff you used to find on cell phones before they got so smart... some thing Breakout, a solitaire game, music trivia (It plays a part of a song from your iPod and you have to guess the title), and something called 'Parachute' I need some kind of case for this... The "docking port" on the end the the nano doesn't have a cover. I wonder how long before dirt gets in it and it stops working... There's a docking adapter... but no instructions on what to do with it... at least not anything included with the iPod... 8:21:23 PM    Notes [] Okay... that's a lot of music in a pocket It appears Best Buy does have the iPod-nano (It still wasn't on their website today - or on display). You just have to ask for them. Two colors... black and white... two storage sizes 2GB and 4GB. I now have a 2GB white one... Plenty of room for my tastes... and the colored skins for the thing look like they would work better with a white one... which I think might be a necessity... it collects fingerprints just as easily as the PSP... but doesn't come with something to clean it... I'm stuffing it full of music right now... the stuff that I had on my shuffle (mostly) and a bit more :-). (Total ? 296 songs/ 19 hours of music. With room left over. Mostly full albums... Beatles, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Rush, Heart, and a bunch of others from my current play-list.. Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch, Anna Nalick, Alanis Morissette, Johnny Cash... etc. What? No Led Zeppelin? Couldn't decide which one... maybe next time...) It has a random/shuffle feature just like the shuffle. Which isn't actually a feature I use a lot. My iBook has a slow USB port... so I use my thinkpad to put music on the ipods... it has the faster USB 2.0. And neither of them does firewire... So... what happens to the Shuffle? I don't need two ipods... I already have plans for it :-). If a certain T still wants it... 7:06:31 PM    Notes []

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