oh, right

One of the things I miss about living in the DC area is that there was a terrific food coop a block and a half from our apartment in Silver Spring. There are such things in Boston, of course, but I don't go to them; the nearby Star Market is Good Enough (and for some things quite good indeed) and on the crunchy scale walking to Porter vs. driving to Central makes more of a difference in my head than where the nitrates the farmer used came from.

But I was in Central Square anyway yesterday, and stopped in to Harvest to pick up a few things that I can't get at Star. And realized that I was going to take half those things with me to work, which is nearby in Kendall Square. Duh! I can stop at Harvest on my way to or from work, and pick things up then. It's a bit out of the way, but not really a burden, and I'll get to have yummy snax.

equivalency

For all that we enjoy music, ours is not a very musical household. There's a stereo in the living room which can drive a set of speakers in the kitchen, but our schedules mesh so badly that we can never use it. Dan used to play excellent bizarre music in his bedroom, but he's moved out now. And though there are a few CD-playing devices upstairs, it's inconvenient to use them and winds up scattering the CD collection when we do. I do listen to music in the car sometimes, when I remember to bring some with me, but that makes the scattering problem worse. I've been meaning to address this by ripping a bunch of MP3s to disk for upstairs, and burning MP3 CDs for the car (which can play them). But I'd been hindered until recently by a lack of disk space.

Now that I'm actually getting to this, though, I'm psyched to play MP3s on my Palm. The new toy has a built-in SD card slot, so transferring the files should be easy. But I spend over an hour banging on it this morning, getting nowhere -- the laptop just wouldn't recognize the card I put in it. I updated the drivers, and futzed around in the configs, and read a bunch of documentation, before finally realizing that the card I'd inserted was an MMC card, not an SD card, and the laptop wouldn't read it. Silly format-sharing standards.

So now I need an SD card. I was leaning towards getting another card anyway as 32M is a little smaller than most albums. The only question I need to answer is: how big?