Subject: [Tweeters] i-Pod for birding
Date: Nov 5 14:39:43 2008
From: rccarl at pacbell.net - rccarl at pacbell.net


I thought this would be of general interest so am posting to the Bulletin Board

I-pods, like all other electronic devices, are part of the vast under 30 conspiracy to make all such devices unusable for anyone over 30. This is accomplished by making the devices so small that the type is unreadably tiny, and so unnecessarily complex that you can't use them even if you can read the mini-micro print.

The good news is that the old, large enough to read, i-Pods, are now cheap as the industry struggles to make devices the size of a postage stamp. I have an original 80GB i-Pod. It holds thousands of songs and works for days without re-charge. I downloaded the songs from Thayer, and am slowly adding more from xenocanto.com. The i-Pod works beautifully with my Apple PowerBook. For speakers, I bought the cheap teeny-bopper mini-speakesr for $29. Works great.

80 GB is enough to hold Continent's worth of bird songs plus all the music you can ever want. The high point of every flight is the moment when I can finally put on my Bose head phones, turn on the i-Pod, and retreat to Mozart.


Richard Carlson
Full-time Birder, Biker and Rotarian
Part-time Economist
Tucson, AZ, Lake Tahoe, CA, & Kirkland, WA
rccarl at pacbell.net
Tucson 520-760-4935
Tahoe 530-581-0624
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