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  • Shag Phones

    Having an affair? Don’t forget to use a “shag phone“. [via boing boing]

  • QOTD 6/13/04

    Ambrose Bierce: “There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.” [Quotes of the Day]

  • iTMS Weirdness

    Yes, it’s the day for me to comment on iTunes. Has anyone else noticed that they have stopped saying that albums they have are only partial albums? Or is this a bug over there. I noticed in their RSS feed that they had a bunch of stuff by The Cars. In the RSS feed it indicated that it was the full album, yet when you go to iTMS there are only five songs from it listed. The even weirder part is they have a ‘add album’ button which is $9.90. Yes, $9.90 for five songs that would be $4.95 bought individually. I think Apple needs to have an iTMS blog for reporting on things like this. Especially since their support page was insanely broken when I tried to leave a message about this.

  • iTunes Lameness

    I love wireless. Lately I’ve taken to sitting out down on the porch during the day when it is nice out. The wireless signal there is great and it’s covered so I’m in the shade (with no glare issues). I’ve also been making use of the music sharing feature of iTunes a lot because of it. Also, since I’m driving between Boston and Hartford a lot I’ve started getting into audiobooks. Currently I’m on the third book in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series and it has completely sucked me in. This morning I sat down to listen to the last part on the porch (something I hadn’t done before) and discovered that iTunes won’t share out audiobooks from audible. What the hell? Audible? Apple? What’s the story here?

  • More Importantly

    Cnn.com is reporting that Ray Charles has died. I think we should have a week of mourning, at least.

  • Airport Express and iTunes 4.6 and What I Think Is Missing

    globalnavexpresshi06072004Apple’s new Airport Express sounds great. It’s one of the things I’ve really been looking for. A nice way to have a wireless repeater that (hopefully) doesn’t kill the network speed. Everything else is just really good icing. Mini base station, great. Printer server, great. Streaming audio receiver: great. AirTunes, which is part of iTunes 4.6, here’s where I think they missed slightly. You can only stream to an Airport Express box. I would have loved to have seen the ability to stream to any other box running iTunes. Yes, there is music sharing, which is great, but I can think of times when I might want to be just streaming to a laptop. Or both a laptop and an airport express. I live in a fairly good sized house and maybe people in multiple places want to be able to tune in.

    I think Apple also needs to come out with some kind of stereo/AV component for listening to music and viewing photos (and maybe even movies) on your home theatre system. Something that works like TiVo’s Home Media Option (which is now included in the TiVo subscription instead of as an add-on), but more tuned to how Apple does things. It would let you listen to AAC encoded files, and AAC files you bought from iTMS. But it would act more like the iTunes music sharing does. To me, this could be the killer box for Apple. Roku comes close with their products, but it still isn’t exactly what I’m looking for. The one thing I know I don’t really want is a full computer attached to my home theatre system. It just seems like overkill to me when I have a server already that has all that stuff stored on it.

  • QOTD 6/10/2004

    Sir Julian Huxley: “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.” [Quotes of the Day]

  • Another Reason My Mom Is Too Cool

    Mom recently asked me if I had anything else like Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz, which she really likes. Hmm, what to recommend to her…

  • Restaurant Review: Min Ghung

    Today was my mom’s birthday, so we brought her out to eat at a little place in Glastonbury, CT called Min Ghung. I’d glanced over a review of it a few weeks ago and thought it sounded interesting. The food ended up being amazing. I had some sushi for an appetizer and then their Salmon Teriyaki, which was very tasty. It was two large hunks of salmon. Mom got a Salmon Tartare to start and then had Shrimp Yakisoba that looked really good. She said it was great. And my dad had the Manila Pancake. Everything I tasted was really good. I can’t think of anything I wouldn’t want to try again.

    Now, the other great thing about the restaurant is their sake selection. They have 52 different types of cold sake. We had two. One called Rihaku (Wandering poet), which was really flavorful and had a nice aroma of chocolate. The other was the one I really liked, called Kaguyahime (Bamboo Princess). The waiter had the hostess come and tell us the story of the Bamboo Princess, which I immediately recognized from one or two anime shows I’d seen.

    So, I highly recommend this place if you ever find yourself in the Hartford, CT area. I’m pretty sure I’ll be going back there soon.

  • 14 Questions

    14 Questions Stolen from Lyn. Posted to my blog just to see what kind of response I get.

    1. Who are you?
    2. Are you trying to kill me? Why? What the hell did I ever do to you?
    3. If you’re not trying to kill me, can you lend me $500?
    4. What planet are you from, anyway?
    5. How much do you weigh on that planet?
    6. Describe me in one word. Preferably a smell.
    7. Do you want to lick my toes?
    8. If I gave you a dollar, would you clean my house?
    9. What would you wear while cleaning my house, you naughty girl/boy?
    10. What have you done to deserve a spanking?
    11. How long have you been reading my LJ?
    12. If you’ve never commented in my LJ, why not?
    13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn’t because you could be arrested?
    14. Are you going to put this on your LiveJournal/Blog and see what I say about you?