Okay, not really. But I have to say I’m a bit disappointed in the aborbency of Pampers newborn swaddlers. Multiple times when he’s either been getting fed, or just had his diaper changed and was lying on his back, we’d suddenly notice he’s all wet. Apparently the Pampers newborn diapers rely heavily on gravity. Which is odd if you think about the fact that newborns can’t hold their head up so are more likely to be laying down (in a pool of urine if they’re wearing these diapers) than anything else.
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I went to Best Buy during lunch and picked up the Belkin Tunecast. I’ve been happy with the Belkin products I’ve used over the years. The KVMs they make are great. I’ve never had a problem with a keyboard or cable I’ve got from them. The Tunecast is a different story.
I got in the car and ripped the package open. Okay, not really, but I tried to. It’s one of those molded plastic things that require the strength of Hercules and pruning shears to open. After a little struggling though I did manage to get it open. I put the batteries in (they came with it), turned it on (a nice feature that power button), and tuned the radio to 88.1 the first channel choice on the Tunecast…
Uh, oh christian rock station. Lets try 88.3. Okay, some bleed from the christian rock station, but lets give it a try. I switched the Tunecast to 88.3 and the iPod music came in. Woo woo…88.5 and 88.7 are the other choices. 88.5 is taken in the Tampa area so that was useless. 88.7 was also empty.
As I drove off, I noticed that the music was distorted so I lowered the volume on the iPod (which I had all the way up) and increased the stereo volume. This meant that if I switched to CD or radio I’d be blasted. Not a good sign. Soon I started to hear some static pops in the music so I switched to 88.7…it got worse so I went to 88.3 again. The static came and went. The worst of it was just the quality. I kept having to adjust the volume (I don’t have to do that when I’ve got headphones on) and the static started to get annoying. I also noticed that if I turned the A/C up the static got worse. Putting it in the glove compartment made it worse too.
Now, the static wasn’t overpowering, but it really didn’t get drowned out when I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald. Some of the harder stuff though didn’t get affected too bad, but still, there’s too much fiddling necessary to have to deal with when driving.
It might be better for a home stereo, but in that case you can use wires. I don’t have a tape deck or a (functioning) auxiliary input (Strike 1 against the Matrix) its really the only choice.
I’ll try it some more this weekend since we have a 4 hour car trip to make. At this point though I’m planning on returning it on Monday and waiting for the iTrip