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After laying back for much of the Thanksgiving weekend, I joined the fray, making an electronics purchase today in celebration of my upcoming birthday. My parents have generously funded the purchase as a present. The selection? An Iriver HP-140 Digital Audio Player. It is becoming harder and harder to find nowadays as it is no longer in production, but I snagged one of the last 3 from Amazon.com. Now, it's only offered through one of their sub-sites for $50 more than I would have paid, had I not gotten the $30 Amazon Visa discount as well. So, I got what I wanted for $80 less than what I would have had to have paid for it tonight. Good times. What is the Iriver HP-140? Well you can check the Official Site. basically, its a 40 GB external USB2.0 hard drive that plays MP3s, WMAs, and most importantly OGGs. OGG files are like MP3s, but of much higher quality at lower bitrates - with the added bonus of being open source. That means anyone can play them without paying any licensing fees. They're more popular than you might think, especially amongst fellow geeks. I'll get more excited when it comes. Ooh, and I put up some Christmas lights outside. Some. Five out of six of the light strings I have are busted. I've repaired one, with four to go.