posted 2005/08/11 at 15:56
I'm just chilling in my room here, waiting until it's time to go to the dentist to get a tiny cavity filled here. I can't say that I'm particularly nervous or anything like that, but certainly this isn't exactly something you look forward to, you know? I always seem to find an excuse for a bad mood, don't I?
Anyway, I've decided that once I start getting paid again in a few weeks here (insert obligatory groan about school starting up again soon), I'm going to get an MP3 player for myself. Especially since I've been doing a lot of reading here lately, I've found that having all my new age piano songs on shuffle on my computer here is a great background to studying, and I won't even have access to a computer in my office come fall semester. (That was one of the good things about being a research assistant last year: my own office with my own computer. Now I'm stuck in a veal pen with the other grad students who teach.) This is the player I'm looking at right now; I like the small size and purported long battery life, and I don't want a hard disk player because I've heard too many horror stories about the HDs on them burning out. Anyone have any thoughts on this player, or recommendations for other players?
On a related note, I think that before I go to that conference in November to deliver my first "professional" paper, I'll need to pick up a laptop to use while I'm up in Wisconsin "conferencing" and "networking" and all of that bullcrap. I already know about Pricewatch (thanks Don B.), but when it comes to getting a notebook I think I'd rather shop at one store exclusively. Anyone have any recommendations for places to buy used/cheap notebooks from? (My budget for the notebook will maybe be $600, tops.)
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