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i bought a new mp3 player today. it should arrive mid-next week. i’m really excited with this thing. I’m in the ‘anythingbutipod<\/a>‘ pool of consumers, so I settled for a Clix from iRiver<\/a>.<\/p>\n I spend around 6-8 hours a week travelling on subways, and while most people who travel listening to mp3 players are simply listening to pop music or music in general, I’m much-more looking forward to listening to those BBC radio broadcasts<\/a>, podcasts and lectures from the Walker Art Center<\/a> and other podcasts from artists, art institutions, etc. and other archived audio programs that I don’t otherwise have the opportunity to listen to when I’m busy in my own studio and need to focus. I have to travel, so I figure its time to multitask my commute and my cultural excitement (of course, I am also of the belief that it’s not a good thing to be plugged in all the time, especially when walking on the streets – you can’t hear anything around you! you’re vulnerable and unaware! but when sitting on a subway seat for 40 minutes, I’ll make an exception).<\/p>\n Additionally, this player which only measures 2.7\ufffd? x 1.8\ufffd? x .6\ufffd?, can also view basic .txt files, has a built-in FM tuner, can view standard image formats such as JPEGs, has a mic for voice-recording, and also plays movies at 320×240, and can run for 25 hours on a full charge. So we’ll see if it is simply another device to consume time, or if I can find a way to put its hardware to applicable use and create some work from its functions and capabilities.<\/p>\n i bought a new mp3 player today. it should arrive mid-next week. i’m really excited with this thing. I’m in the ‘anythingbutipod‘ pool of consumers, so I settled for a Clix from iRiver. I spend around 6-8 hours a week travelling on subways, and while most people who travel listening to mp3 players are simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[454,1229,453,94],"series":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","category-stuffs","tag-clix","tag-geekathon","tag-mp3","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/clix3.jpg?fit=320%2C292&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-5n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"