In February 2006, Apple was sued by a Louisiana man because the iPod was causing hearing loss.  Check it out here.

I am finally letting go of those Apple earbuds. On the plane from Montgomery, Daniel and I were watching Italian Job on his iPod Touch, with a headphone splitter. I plugged in my Apple earbuds and he plugged in his JVC Marshmallows. I had him turn the volume up because I couldn't hear the movie very well. Mind you, I had both earbuds in and he only had 1 earbud in. So, he turned it up and I could just hear it OK so I had to follow along with the subtitles to actually get what was going on. Well, after a while, Daniel decides to turn it down so I'm like WTF so I grab his unoccupied earbud and I put it in my ear. I could hear the movie perfectly fine!?!

So then later, Daniel picked me up at a pair of JVC Marshamallow green earbuds (to match my iPod Nano of course) from Best Buy. They were $20 and are excellent! Normally on my iPod with the Apple earbuds (at one point, they were retail $50), the volume bar would almost be all the way to the right but now with the new JVC Marshmallows, it's barely at the half way point. Thanks for saving my ears, baby!!!

I'm bringing Xanga back - drop a comment if you're with me!

3:39PM. So I'm finally ditching my (Sprint) Samsung A-900 and my (T-Mobile) Sidekick 3 for this brand new (Sprint) Palm Centro. I'm lovin' it so far. There are just some minor but annoying glitches. Random reboots (i.e. sometimes when i close out an AIM conversation or when i try to load a page that's too large) and weird things going on with the free Sprint Mobile Email application. Other than those 2 major complaints, I'm really enjoying my first smartphone!! The size is great. Keyboard is a little small but that's ok - I have small fingers. Beautiful 2", 320x320 touchscreen display.

well, I guess I just slept for about 4 hours and I was up at 4AM and now I'm doing this paper for Philosophy class. The rest of the semester will be even more interesting.

I'm trying to get all my stuff done before the weekend so I don't have to worry about homework when I'm in NY and when I get back from NY. lol

My back is killing me!

Weekend happenings:
1) Chinatown: Buy Calligraphy paper
2) Best Buy: Return firewire cable

Due on Monday 9/24
1) Data Structures: Lab #2
2) Chinese Calligraphy: 10 practice sheets

Due on Tue 9/25
1) Philosophy: Article and paper
2) Org & Arch: HW #1

Due on Wed 9/26
1) Data Structures: HW #2