I have a regular old fourth-generation iPod (black and white screen, 20 GB), a black 2GB nano (first-gen), and the original 20GB second-gen iPod. The only reason I have two full-size iPods is the newer one was included with a PowerBook I bought a couple years ago for just $70 after rebates. I couldn’t get enough cash back to justify selling one of them so I kept both. The fourth-gen lives its life attached to my car stereo and the second-gen sits around the house to plug into the entertainment system and whatnot. The nano goes walking/biking/jogging with me.

As luck would have it, I just moved out of my old house and am staying at my parents’ a few days before moving on to San Diego. They have two iPods themselves (a third-gen and fourth-gen, both 20GB), making it possible for me to vote “5” in this poll at the moment.

Thanks to the latest $200 rebate on iPods (for education customers, when purchasing a new Mac) there are now six iPods in the house.

We’re down to two (from three) - my gen 1 iPod’s 5g disk drive has bitten the hairy kumera (quaint, and oddly not offensive, New Zealand-ism). I could buy another drive and put it in, but I can’t be bothered.

Hairy kumera?

Oh, please explain. Come on, I can handle it.

Kei te whakamau… (I hope I got that right; it’s (roughly) “I’m ashamed”)

It’s kumara, not kumera (for the vegetably unsure), it’s a tuber, aka sweet potato). And it’s Te Wiki o te Reo Mдori (Mдori Language Week) too. Sigh.

We defer to Australians in their creation of the colourful phrase, but we have a few of our own. To bite the hairy kumara is to die, give up the ghost, kick the bucket, to be no more…

Unfortunately I can’t find its origin, and it’s rare enough as it is. I just like saying it.

Re: How many iPods are in your house?

[quote author=“Jeff Gamet”]For many people, one iPod just isn’t enough, and I know that’s true for me. I have five iPods (3G, 2 nanos, 1G shuffle, 2G shuffle), and my wife has two (iPod mini and 1G shuffle). How many do you have?

Looks like I have to up my iPod total up by one to six thanks to the addition of an iPhone to our family. Sadly, I haven’t listened to a single song on it since the headphone jack doesn’t fit any of my headphones or earbuds. I find the Apple earbuds to be horribly uncomfortable, so I guess I better invest in an iPhone earbud cable adapter.

Jeff