__/ [ Kier ] on Sunday 18 March 2007 16:41 \__
> okay, this isn't Linux-related, it's just for a laugh on this rather
> breezy Sunday afternoon.
>
> What's the oddest thing anyone here has ever done with a portable media
> player they own?
>
> Very late last night I was out walking along a local riverside footpath,
> which is completely unlit, the only illumination coming from streetlights
> across the river, and the moon when present. I noticed some dark blobs on
> the pathway, which seemed to be moving. Using the light provided by my
> Archos 404 player's screen, I discovered they were small frogs, obviously
> off on some habitat migration. Never seen such a thing before, especially
> at two in the morning. Must have been about twenty of them scattered along
> the path for some distance, and jolly hard to was to avoid treading on
> them in the dark - an Archos LCD screen doesn't give out a whole lot of
> light!
>
> Dunno what they thought of me, but I thought they were very cute :-)
Brightly-lit screens make excellent flashlights. People use their PDA for
this fairly regularly. These are many other odd irregular uses for PDAs and
a couple of years ago there was a large discussion about this in one of the
Palm newsgroups. Someone wrote a Web pages about, so we contributed ideas,
based on experience. Some use it as a mirror, some say they would even
balance a table with it.
I dropped my PDA three times today. Bad day for me, but the PDA endured
everything (just some extra scratches, which is a visual thing)...
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