Today (Sep 29th 2005) I took an old, busted 15 gig ipod hard drive and thought, “what am i going to do with this useless hunk of junk?” I didn’t want to throw it away because I am a pack rat, I keep all kinds of things, even if they’re broken. I got to thinking, “I could make this bad boy a belt buckle”, so that is what I did.
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After purchasing a MacBook, I discovered that I didn’t have a proper case to carry my new computer around in and I didn’t feel like shelling out lots of money for one. So I decided to sit down at my mother’s sewing machine (one so technologically advanced that I had to read the instruction manual to find out how to make it go) and make one for myself. I rooted through my fabric stash and found some fabric that I liked and asked my mom if she had any fabric I could use as well. I ended up picking a cotton fabric for the inside and a smoother, more decorative fabric for the outside, both of which are black.
inside fabric:

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