One more random theme: Pods

[rensong]

Working out is boring. This I have discovered quite thoroughly these past few weeks as I worked out for PhyEd. When you are working out (at least on some sort of stationary exercise machine), you have only two options to keep your brain occupied: a) you can read or B) you can listen to music. It boggles my mind how the hell anyone can do the

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[brianrubin]

I have a Nano, and it kicks ass. The funny thing is that I read AND listen to the ipod while on a treadmill. ;)

[rensong]

Well, I read and listen to music at the same time on a regular basis - provided my head isn't bouncing up and down, that is. I try doing it on the cross-trainer (or elliptical machine, whatever you prefer calling it) and I always lose my place. I know it's *possible* to read and bounce at the same time cause I see at least 60% of all the other people in the fitness center doing just that while they work out, I just can't seem to master it myself.

And I've heard good things about Nanos. I might just go look in to how poor buying one would make me. As it stands, I'm leaning more toward the cheap, 20-30 dollar MP3 player rather than an actual iPod since I really don't have all that much music and therefor really don't need all 100-some gigs of space those things come with, but it's something to consider. :)

[rensong]

Woops, I meant megs, not gigs... I'm not sure they even make normal computers with 100 gig drives yet. Of course, I could be wrong (my current Gateway that we got way back in 1999 only has 12 gigs on it, so yeah)

[brianrubin]

Hahaha, are you kidding? The computer I'm building will have 2 400GB drives in it for a total of 800GB. I think they recently released 500GB hard drives. It's gettin' crazy up in this bitch.

[cheapevilgirl]

I'm looking into getting an MP3 player too. I was gonna get an ipod but all they really have in the storage size range I would want is the nano and it's too damn small. I've been looking at the Creative Zeno Phote 8GB one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/102-5596631-7259310?search-alias=aps&keywords=Creative%20Zen%20Micro%20Photo%20%208GB%20MP3%20Player

[rensong]

Ooo, shiny.

Though there ain't no way I'm spending *that* much on an MP3 player or ipod of *any* size. The most I would probably need is one gig, maybe two, for all my music.

A friend of mine from school has a tiny little MP3 player about the size of a 200 MB junk drive that she showed me. I wonder if I might possibly be able to find something like that without it costing me an arm and a leg. Thanks for the link, though! ::wanders off to browse Amazon some more::

[cheapevilgirl]

I think Creative has some smaller players too. I just wanted something big enough for me put over 500 songs if I wanted too. I can also put videos on this one which is nice.

[elflore]

I can't recommend the iPods highly enough...love my iPod. I love being able to download music from friends, especially musicspams from Scapers with stuff I've never heard of. I love making up my own playlists...mostly themed to either a fandom I love, or else to characters in the book I'm writing. I love being able to rediscover stuff I haven't listened to in years, because whenever I got in the mood to dig it out I was too lazy...now I just scroll through my iPod. So yeah. Go iPod!

And if you're worried about it falling when you run, you could always get a belt bag or fanny pack or whatever you want to call it to put it in. :?)

[rensong]

My butt is big enough already without adding a fanny pack, thankyouverymuch. :p
As for the iPods, keep in mind that I have dial up, which means I can maybe download one or two songs per Friends Song Spam post without my computer frying. And spending 150-200 bucks on any one thing seriously makes me cringe. Which is why I'm going for the cheaper, smaller MP3 players rather than iPods. I don't have enough music to fill up an ipod.

[elflore]

Heheheh, fair enough. I'm sure your butt's just right, though. :?P