Wherever She Goes, Pure Disaster Surely Follows
August 16th, 2005 by Mark
The mp3 player that I have is the Rio Karma. I really really like it. The main reason that I chose this one over the plethora of other choices is that this one plays Ogg Vorbis files. Ogg Vorbis is a royalty-free music compression format that is not patent-encumbered and is of higher quality than mp3. All told, it is the shizzy. So, I had this Rio and everything was going well. Then the other day I dropped it … twice. The volume up button stopped working. So, I decided to open it up to try and fix it. This was not the best idea as now it doesn’t turn on. Well, it powers up and things start happening, but the drive makes this clicking noise and it never finishes starting. After this unfortunate turn of events I got a little more aggressive with my screwdriver. Here’s the result. I am fairly dependent on a player that plays Ogg Vorbis files. I don’t think this is really that bad. I did paint myself into a corner by ripping all of my music to a format that is not supported by every device under the sun, but I painted myself into a corner that I believe in, so it’s cool. It’s a cozy little corner and it’s mine. A reasonable person would look for a new Rio or some other music player and just move on. However, I’ve decided that it’s better to bid on other broken Rios on ebay that just happen to be broken in a different way (broken screen or controls) and to combine it with mine to make some kind of franken-rio that can never be defeated - not by monsters or gravity. We’ll see how it goes.
The ‘I am the Avalanche’ show is tomorrow. ‘I am the Avalanche’ is a band fronted by the lead-singer of The Movielife. That’s pretty much enough to mean that it’s going to kick my ass. Check out the two tracks they have on their webpage or pickup the split-EP they have out. It’s good.
The LILUG picnic that has been dubbed “The Gaggle of Geeks” is this weekend. I just sent out an email with all of the information in it. That should be a blast. That’s all for now.
