New stereo goodness aboard "So It Goes"...

On the fact that Krugman just used the "D" word (warning some seriously scary shit), the sort of film that deserves support, and I wonder if this is available with a rail mount?

On "So It Goes" we tend to go into consumer mode around the holidaze...

Part of this is that as it is the end of the year, we have a pretty good idea of what is affordable in the grand scheme of things and partly because there are a lot of sales about we can take advantage of.

So at the moment we feel quite rich with a lot of unread books on the shelf (and in the Kindle), loads of DVDs, and lots of bits and pieces for various ongoing boat projects stowed away.

One item we just picked up was a test replacement for our stable of iPod Mini's which in the last few weeks have sickened and apparently decided to go to that great iPod dock in the sky to be with Steve Jobs... Sad to see them go as we loved them and listening to music is such a big part of what I do...

The replacement we found was the Sansa Clip+ which seemed to have all the features of the iPod Shuffle with the added features we wished the Shuffles had... Considering that the Clip+ was a chunk cheaper it seemed too good to be true.

Now that I'm actually using the Clip I find it has a better sound than the iPods. Its ability to use micro SD cards for additional memory means that I can put an additional 8 gigs of music, audio books, radio shows, or whatever on the player when needful. Since we have a lot of SD cards floating about it's easy to have various playlists and musical types on hand to plug and play.

So, having put the test unit through its paces and finding it works, we will be buying a couple more and being it is the holidaze season I may just splash out for a couple of "skins" to go with them...

Listening to Ezra Furman & the Harpoons (Most played song this week)

So it goes...