Saturday, 10 June 2006
00:23:04
Stuff I got on Thursday, but was too lazy to blog about.
I managed to get a little sleep on Thursday, after the Great and Massive Table Ordeal ended on Wednesday. I don't know when I went to sleep, but Gremlin woke me up when the other boxes I was expecting got here.
See? Boxes! How lovely!
The biggest box was my order from SuperMediaStore.com, who are absolutely wonderful. 200 Taiyo Yudens, and 200 free paper CD sleeves. The DVDs are quite lovely, very high quality. They're 8x DVD-Rs, but they burn at 12x, and I still have more than 150 left over from the last time I ordered them....
Also, they were four bucks cheaper this time, compared to the last time I ordered them. And the sleeves, I mentioned they were free, right? Gremlin wanted them, so I jumped on the deal.
Actually, they're pretty spiffy, too. The bags have a resealable bottom.
This picture is supposed to show how overzealous Newegg gets with the careful packing, which I just can't say is a bad thing. The thing inside is a Sony Memory Stick, one of the little ones. And they wrapped it in a layer or two of huge bubble wrap stuff, and put it in that box.
More careful packing, this time with a bunch of packing peanuts. If I were to save all the packing peanuts I'd ever gotten from these guys, I'd have enough to fill the house....
The box containing Gremlin's spiffy new refurbished PSP. Saved a good hundred bucks, and it works just fine.
Obviously, the PSP is not packed by Newegg....
I guess saving money meant we didn't get the USB cable that I already have a few hundred of....
Then I just got a few pictures of the PSP, for the hell of it.
I also bought a protective cover for the screen, since Gremlin was likely to use this thing like a pocketable MP3 player.
...and a game.
And this is my new iPod.
It says 'don't steal music'.
I don't like being told what to do, even if it is a spiffy little mp3 player that's telling me what to do....
The stuff that came with it was in these strange little sterile packets. Also, even though it wasn't mentioned, it came with a case. That's the black thing. A suede-feeling spiffy case that seems to polish the iPod when you put it in....
iPod with iStuff.
A sort of demonstration of how small the iPod actually is. It's a nano.
More smallness-showing. And blurry. Also, my nails are dirty....
Oh well.
I'm really learning to love my new iPod, too. I've got 4 gigs of space on it, and it's about half full. It sounds good, it's tiny, and it actually gets too loud for me...now if only the earbuds didn't hurt like hell after a little while.
I wish I could find ear buds that didn't suck....
This concludes my latest post about the spiffiness of my stuff that I bought, but was too lazy to post about the day I got it.
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What the hell do you DO with that many DVD-Rs? I stil have about 40 of the 50 I bought from Walmart a while ago.
So, the iPod is worth what I feel is an insanely high price?
1. I do bad things. Bad, horrible things. I cannot say what I do with them, except that it involves netflix, and toilets that overflow with heads and molasses.
2. The iPod Nano seems to be worth it so far. It really is very small, and it's extremely tough according to some extreme stress tests I've seen. There are other much cheaper and larger MP3 players out there that do other things. The PSP is probably a good example of that. The iPod Nano, though? Fucking impressive to me.
You're a bad, bad person.I guess I might get myself an iPod afterall.
I'll probably review it in some better way later. All I can really say now is that I'm only slightly unthrilled by a couple of aspects -- pretty much all of them have to do with ebooks, and the fact that the Nano [and probably all the iPods] only know audiobooks through one 'bookmarkable' format. I haven't tried out the photo thing yet, although the 'display album art' option is kinda neat.
Also, I currently have nine days of material on my iPod Nano, and 23 megs free. Not bad for something so tiny, huh?
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