Current Ramblings
Friday, September 03, 2004
Acquisitons.
Yesterday was certainly a day for acquiring things. To begin with, I got the package my mom sent with my birthday present, being a shiny new MP3 player. No, it's not an iPod, it's a nice little 256mb flash-drive-style number from Virgin Pulse. I'm sort of an easy mark for anything Virgin puts out. Even my phone is through Virgin Mobile. It can pretty much be traced back to Richard Branson's inexplicable cameo in the TFUK comic, which I admit is probably the single geekiest reason to have a brand preference for personal electronics ever. (And yes, I'm going quite mad with the hypertext tonight. It's the wave of the future, baby.) It also helps that this particular player has a couple features that digital cameras made me fond of, like a standard AAA battery and a built-in USB plug so I don't have any cables to lose. If I'm in a position where really need 8 or 9 hours of entertainment, I probably already have a backpack to stash my CD player in. This'll be really handy for exercise walking and trips up to Target.
I also discovered that Target has the new Tokyo-A-Go-Go Bratz on a really amazing sale, so I gave in and bought one. The outfits are pretty cool in a kinda wacky punked-out way, but there's just something vaguely wrong with selling Japanese teen-girl culture to little girls...
At least she didn't come with any yaoi dojinshi.
And once I actually got to work yesterday afternoon, I found the most amazing thing while taking out the trash. Under some crappy audio-cassette sets of, like, motivational seminars there was a tape set of the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show. Which I had never, EVER seen available in any form but the book of the scripts. A little research since then has shown that it's available on CD right now in England for around £30-40, but that's a lot of money, and it still doens't seem to have ever been sold in the US. It was in the trash because the plastic clamshell case had split along the side into two parts, so I totally got it for free. I'm going to send it to Malin and see if he can put them on CD for me, since I no longer own a tape player.
Today was less exciting, though I did get a new pair of jeans.
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