After I chided the VoIP Girl a bit about her awesome-but-ample headset, Ken Camp added his fuel to the fire. So, here, I’m posting a picture of my headphones. These are Roland RH-120 stereo headphones, purchased in 1995 for what at the time was probably a week’s pay. I don’t use a boom mic set or anything like that. The built-in mic on my MacBook tends to work well enough. If I need to seriously record a VoIP chat, however, sometimes I’ll plug in my SM57 knock-off microphone into a mixer–one typically only used for music recording. But it’s a sensible low-noise mic that can be used for podcast recording and so forth.  Generally though, no special microphone for casual Skyping or Sightspeeding. By the way, this photo was a self-portrait snapped by the Nokia N73 because my MacBook’s built-in iSight is on the fritz.