Musicbox!!

Yesterday I had the displeasure of listening to a CD in my car.

I bought the album Light a Match, For I Deserve To Burn by The Beautiful Mistake (which is quite good) at Best Buy, and wanted to listen to it on the way home.  It’s been a long time since I have listened to a CD in my car, since I have almost all my CDs copied onto my musicbox computer and I listen to them from there instead.

So I put the CD in, and listened to it, and it was good... until I hit a few bumps.  To be fair, they were pretty serious bumps, but certainly not uncommon in Pittsburgh.  In the space of about 15 minutes, the CD player skipped 4 times on bumps like that.

Upon hearing that irritating sound, I realized that it had indeed been a very long time since I’d last encountered it.  In fact I’ve had my musicbox in my car for 2 years and 2 months now!  And to think that at first, I wondered if it would be too rough of an environment to put a computer (more specifically, its hard drive) into a car.  In all that time, there hasn’t been a single skip to speak of.

Happy belated second birthday, musicbox, and thanks for being so super!

Posted by Anthony on 2 replies

Comments:

01. Jun 26, 2005 at 06:42am by Andy:

i really need to build one of these.  =D

02. Jun 26, 2005 at 11:03pm by Patrick Copland:

You are so right about the roads out there.  I had a friend who went to Shippensburg.  I went to visit him and all he complained about was the bad roads.  He blamed a lot on the horse and buggy traffic from the Amish that lived nearby.

One winter, I was driving through PA and we got stuck behind a County vehicle throwing gravel on the road for traction.  Gravel!  You could almost see the paint chipping off the front of our cars.

In Detroit, they throw salt to combat the icy roads.  That just cases a lot of rust.

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