I was killing time in Target before the movie Saturday night and I spotted those Sound Bites thingamaboppers that T. Jay Fowler was going on about the other day. Curiosity got the better of me and I bought one. I got the FM radio one. It really is pretty nifty. Basically it's a little radio with no speakers and a slot in which to insert a sucker (it comes with a Blow Pop, but personally I prefer Tootsie Pops). You put the sucker in your mouth and it vibrates and sounds like a hi-fi speaker inside your head. Quite a sensation. Mine came with a speaker attachment so you can listen to it without sticking it in your mouth, so I thought I'd take it to work so I could listen to the radio (the pathetic computer they've given me doesn't have enough bandwidth to be able to handle net radio, and there's not really enough room on my desk for any of the nicer radios I own), but the toy radio only has two volume settings -- hi and low -- and the low setting with the speaker is too damned loud to play here. I'm not desperate enough for music to sit here working with a little transistor radio hanging out of my mouth. It might be different if the partitions on my cube were higher and everybody and their dog couldn't see me when they walk by. Then they'd stop and ask questions and I'm really not in the mood to explain my weird little radio to forty different people. Oh, but what I wouldn't give for walls. God, I sound like Les Nessman.