Hivemind request:

DH wants an iPod product for going to the gym. We do not have an extensive music library, nor will DH be using the iPod for major entertainment purposes beyond a 40 minute workout.

Will a shuffle suffice? Or should we shoot for an actual iPod or a Nano?

I'm considering shuffles for both of us (he doesn't want to share.)

"I thought you were 40, at least."

Yeah, I got this comment about 3 days after I turned 28. ("But you're so mature!")

Either the shuffle or the Nano would be better, because if you're going to use it while working out, the flash memory will stand up better to that than an actual hard drive. (The shuffle and the Nano both have flash memory, right?)

I think a shuffle should suffice -- the shuffle holds more music than it used to AND you can create a playlist or use shuffle. (I have a friend who got a shuffle just for the gym - she already has an ipod normal size.)

Personally, I would say Nano. Uploading and downloading music gets real addictive, real quick. It's kind of like buying between the just too small and just too big pair of pants: Better to have extra space than too little.

I had the damnedest dream last night. For some reason, face piercings seem like a good idea. I ended up with two in each eye brow and this big hoop sticking out of my cheekbone. And then I got a tiny hoop put in the top of my left little toe.

I can justify the face piercings by looking at pictures of a woman who was quite pretty except for the ring in the septum of her nose (sorry, I keep thinking livestock when I see those). But I don't know what the significance is of my left little toe.

Once, in the music thread, Corwood discovered my real age (31) and was shocked that I was so young. (He decided I was "professorial.") But, online, I might have been counting in dog years, so that's just plain funny, not insulting.

I did have coworkers surprised to discover my age, because they all tought I was 27. I was like, "Well I do have fewer forehead wrinkles than anybody on Dawson's Creek -- oh wait, that show was big when you were still in the seventh grade!! Nevermind."

My brother wanted a shuffle specifically for workouts at the gym and likes it very well enough. He's not even tempted by anything fancier.

New shuffle - 1 gb = 240 songs or biggest nano - 8 gb = 2000 songs.

The shuffle - 1 gb for $70.00

Nano 2gb ($149.00) - 8 gb ($249.)

(Prices from the ipod store.)

I don't know what age I look now. But I was regularly getting carded when I was 30. And when I was a junior in college, a lot of people thought I was still in high school.