C'mon, Mike, get Trish an iPod

Although you know, it doesn't have to be an iPod. I think the Rio Carbon looks darned cute.
That said, I love my iPod. It's one of those pieces of technology that, like digital cameras, makes what you already enjoy even more convenient and efficient. I just wish it was easier to do things like put my old LP's (I was looking wistfully at an old Elton John's Greatest Hits album) into digital format.

Other than music, the most obvious thing to put on your iPod or MP3 player, I really really like podcasts, and my new fave discovery is audiobooks. Since I was finding that compulsive knitting was cutting into my compulsive reading, knitting while listening to an audiobook is the perfect marriage of nerdy compulsions. Right now, I am obsessed with Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Or Mr. Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Whatever. I could not get through the book for the life of me, yet it seemed interesting and I was still fascinated by it. The audiobook has completely hooked me. It's a freakin' long audio, at 35 hours long. I'm about 1.5 hours from the end now, and boy, if the ending sucks, I am going to be one pissed off listener.

Here's my belated iPod top 10. Yikes, extra nerdy - how does CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks manage to get on there twice? And oddly heavy on Can Con. Huh.

Äijö    Värttinä   
Song to the Mother (O Virdissima Virga)    Richard Souther    Richard Souther    Vision       
Polonaise From Sexdrega    Bäsk       
Unloved    Jann Arden       
Rattlin' Bog    The Irish Descendants       
From Hell to Paradice    The Mavericks   
In My Hands    Natalie MacMaster       
Quirks & Quarks Robot Special- Part I    Quirks & Quarks - CBC Radio       
qq-2004-11-20a    Bob McDonald        Quirks & Quarks    
Savae/ Hanacpachap Cussicuinin    Robert Gass