My stock with the younger set rose just a bit today, as I presented them with an iPod mini of their very own. (I’m working on getting a second one together — sshhhh).
I had two almost working ones, a blue and silver. The blue was really messed up, but in an obvious way: the clickwheel connector had been ripped out from both the main board and the clickwheel itself. What the…? Other than that, it worked fine. The silver one had much more subtle problems: the Molex connector from the board to the microdrive was somehow not working. Once I decided to try that — I was running out of obvious and user-serviceable parts to play with — it worked. A trivial thing, over all, but very satisfying.
Add in two sets of over the ear headphones from American Science and Surplus ($2/each) and that’s a coupla happy campers. One has a 2 hour bus ride tomorrow, each way, so perhaps this got done in the nick of time.
And on the food experiment front, kombucha tea has taken hold of me. I make a batch every few days and am really enjoying the stuff. I found it for sale in my local co-op and found it tasted a lot like mine (I had never had it before making it myself). Mine was too strong, so I have scaled back the tea ingredients and it’s still plenty flavorful.
And the mother is now a healthy looking chunk of magic: about 1/2 and inch thick and a beautiful color and texture.
Cheaper and better for me than soda and more refreshing as well. Now what to do with the ever-increasing amount of starter/scoby, aka mother?