Random stuff...
They changed the way we work at work. I won't say it's a bad change, just that the current implementation is worse than bad. Given time, they probably can make it better than it is. The question is whether that will or won't happen.
So I went and got an LCD monitor shipped to me. Went from a 17" Dell flat-screen CRT to a 20.1" Samsung. Both do 1600x1200 top-end, but the Dell's too blurry to read, while the HDMI-driven Samsung is clear... and HUGE. Oh, and it uses less power than my light fixture.
My mp3 player is just about dead after many, many road trips. It's no longer perfectly reading CDs that burn fine (and play in my mom's DVD player). So I wan a new player. Thing is that it's hard to find the kind of reviews I need to actually pick out what I need. It's really hard to finish a review that spends a page talking about how the player looks. I can honestly say that that would NEVER be a primary purchasing decision-maker for me when it comes to audio devices. That would be like selecting a lawnmower based on how well it can be used as a skateboard. No matter how true the opinion, there's simply no substantial relevance.
What I'm looking for is:
Capacity of 4 GB or more
Durable shell, because it will wind up hitting something
Low PC-side software requirements (the less the better, because I said so)
standalone charging (because I don't always have a PC or a car to use)
field-replacable battery (if I can build a PC, I can damn sure change a battery)
if possible, two features of my old player: headphone jack remote and a main control lock-out switch. If you don't know what either are, I'll explain.
I finished another chapter of writing after a really long time. The title is "Lead Us Into Temptation", and it throws at least one unexpected curve at you. My content-consistancy checking guy said there's some excellent lines of dialogue in there, too...
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