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Monday, August 01, 2005

Time is Tight

Look what I got for my birthday. Fat Buddha was raving about this amazing iPod accessory a few weeks ago. If I remember rightly his was the victim of a red wine, dog calamity that ended in a wine soaked iStation.

The sound, for such a small item is absolutely brill. The design is classic. The whole thing folds to the size of a paperback (albeit a hefty Picador, unabridged biography of someone who lived for fuckin' ages), for packing in your bag when you jet off here, there and everywhere. All in all, a bloody masterpiece. It's all set up and blasting out in my Eyrie as I write. Sadly my Audioscrobbler won't update off it so that might look a bit static. I'll leave it there as snapshot of my musical journey in the early 21st century.




A few weeks ago I had a small accident which resulted in the loss of the 'o' key on my acquired laptop. This is becoming increasingly annoying. I can live with it but it's still annoying. I can't take it in work to get it fixed though because everyone will suddenly remember that I 'borrowed' it to arse about on the internet work from home about 6 months ago.

So, if you read the odd post without 'o's in it, just bear with me. I try to catch as many as possible, but some will always slip thrugh the net - like that one just did.

9 comments:

peter bowler said...

I love those little blue lights, sometimes I just sit and stare at them, awestruck.

©gloop said...

Is it working again then?

Brom said...

Looks very posh. I have no doubt that it sounds as you describe. One day I'm going to have to get my old fasiond view out of my head that states Bass = Big.

Enjoyed catching up on the rest of your posts! :-)

Brom said...

... and one day I'm going to have to check my spelling before I "return"

Mike Da Hat said...

I'm having trouble finding needles for my gramaphone. I once heard dried hawthorn thorns would work. Maybe I should upgrade to one of those.

Shooting Parrots said...

So what do you do for an 'o'? Copy and paste? Could be quite a challenge to blog without using the letter o. I seem to recall some French bloke who wrote a book doing something similar.

peter bowler said...

Miraculously, the mutt only managed to knacker the AC adaptor, so I can't use it to charge the pod and it costs a fortune in batteries, still I love it.

©gloop said...

Brom - It's not "Hi-Fi" as such - but it blows away a decent ghetto-blaster or mini-system for sure. The secret is in the woofer that folds down behind the unit to accomodate the iPod.

Mike - There's nowt wrong wi' thorns. If it sounds right to your ears then it is right. Up to a certain 'quality' of hi-fidelity, my ears just don't wrk any better so I can't tell the difference between a £1,000 system and a £20,000 system. (£20,000.....Jesus H!)

Mr Parrot. I can still 'key' the'o', so to speak (sounds like a porn novel that: "Keying the 'O'"), it just resides at the bottom of a quarter inch depression in the keypad that is causing buggeration and strife. But cutting and pasting ain't necessary. Yet.

Kaptain Kobold said...

"Sadly my Audioscrobbler won't update off it so that might look a bit static. I'll leave it there as snapshot of my musical journey in the early 21st century."

Ah, but you can.

AudioPod

I use it; I uploaded three weeks of holiday iPodding into Scrobbler yesterday.