Archives, eh
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# Links for 2008-07-22
Using Google as a free MobileMe alternative
No tasks yet. Hopefully Remember The Milk will be first off the rank though ✴The rise and fall of European and Arab cities ✴
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# Headphones
My iPod headphones gave up the ghost last Thursday. Well, they’ve been gradually been giving up the ghost for months; I thought I had been going deaf since I needed to turn the iPod up to max to be able to hear various podcasts and even some music, but it turns out the headphones were at fault. They are hardware so it should go without saying by now that I do not understand why the volume through these headphones were slipping but it was.
Last Thursday I found that the only way to get anything through the right speaker was to hold the wire just so while standing perfectly still, holding my breath and facing North-North-East. I wasn’t sure though if it was the headphones or the connection in the iPod so as soon as I got home I had tWM fetch her headphones and tested the connection.
I probably should have taken some time to turn the volume down: it was at maximum. The song was pretty bass heavy, Spiderbait’s Don’t Kill The Nipper, and when I un-paused the music, the sheer thereness of it poured down my ear canal and crashed against my eardrum like…well, like a wave. Although it would be more illustrative if I compared it to a tsunami surging across a Sri Lankan beach only to strike some unmovable object like, say, the right wing’s inability to grasp the idea of DDT-resistant mosquitos.
I could feel Janet’s guitar in toenail clippings I had snipped off a week earlier.
Anyway, on the weekend it was tWM’s birthday. Fourteen if you must know – that’s 98 in dog years, which I have to admit is so tangential that it is almost sunburn – and we took her into the city so that she could spend an hour in the large Supré – tween, tween and skank clothing – store on George Street. Speaking of tangents, this store is so big it actually descends two levels into the bowels of the earth, which is practically begging for a snarky literary comparison.
We also check out the markets in Chinatown and I bought one of those remotes. I had assumed that it would also come with headphones since it would be a pain to use it with the standard headphones – cords too long to be practicable and all – but no. I checked out the Apple store online for headphones. $48 dollars. For headphones! I know they are pretty good headphones, but $48?! For that I’d also want to receive a free Potion of Charisma, a Hoodie of Snide Superiority and the ability to speak Japanese to pretty cameras.
Think I’ll just go back to those markets and pick up some for a tenth of the price.
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# Links for 2006-11-17
- codepoetry – Do-It-Yourself Smart Radio Station
I’d have to make myself rate, fix all the metadata and remember to sync my iPod regulalry…wow, this is a lot of work ✴
- codepoetry – Do-It-Yourself Smart Radio Station
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# Links for 2006-06-21
- An iPod under Linux ✴
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America- what was changed? ✴
- AJAX Remote Desktop Viewer
hmm….yeah ✴ - Recommended Eclipse reading list
I don’t actually use Eclipse anymore because it is a little too hungry for my moderately powered computer. I would probably use it on my desktop though. If I wasn’t too busy playoing WoW ✴ - Ten tips for new Ubuntu users ✴
- Kopi Luwak
I wonder. I wonder if D would buy it for me. I wonder if I would drink it :- ) ✴ - Wasted West ✴
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# Links for 2006-06-16
