So, it turns out that I'm instant bad karma when it comes to anything with a display mounted on it. When I first started at work in June, one of my monitors wouldn't work at all. Somehow during our trip to New Mexico, I managed to much up some pixels on the LCD on Layla's camera. The NEC monitor that Layla got me for Christmas has a broken DVI port, and the MP3 player I just got in the mail has a faulty OLED screen.
Bollocks.
I'm not sure what it is, but I seem to have ridiculously bad luck with these sorts of things.
Layla and I are headed to Renton tonight to replace both the monitor and the MP3 player—thankfully, there's a Walmart way the hell down there.
But before I do that, I figured I'd post a picture of this thing before I get a new one. Behold.
That's it. It's really that tiny—and actually, it looks bigger in that photo than it really is. The proportions are more realistic in this shot. The player has the headphone strap nub attached to the top and is sitting inside the rubbery protective "case" that it comes with...but yeah. Holy hell, it's really damned small.
Nice, I remember seeing one of those at the WalStreet WalMart in Socorro. Its a little bigger than a dice if i recall. Also I now have enough photos of your cat to have it warrant its own folder. How, odd..
I have yet to see whether or not this thing is really worth what it cost (~$125).
What surprised me was that when I returned it last night, the lady at the counter said she had seen three of exactly this model returned as defective that day. Seems mo' biblu, DAH! has some serious quality control issues.