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20 minutes + 3129 keypresses = unlocked car door on those car keyless number entry pad things. My mom has this keypad on her Lincoln (it seems a very American car thing). I’m definitely going to try it out when I visit for the holidays. There’s really nothing else to do while I’m home. (Though I’m going to bust out the Dreamcast and the Sega Bass Fishing I think.)
So I just got a 1080p HDTV. And I got a nice upconverting dvd player for Christmas. And yet I’m plagued by the thought of a PS3 or an Xbox360 (or xo as i like to call it… get it, x for xbox, o for circle which equals 360 degrees! I’m so clever idiotic.). Nevermind my friends who are going crazy over the fact that I got a nice HD set and don’t have an HD movie player. Listen, it bothers me too. I LOVE movies. I’d get a PS3 or xo for HD movies alone, never mind gaming. (Why not just get a stand alone Bluray or HD-DVD player you ask? Well I do enjoy gaming as well, so there’s that.). But it’s a lot of layout for movies of which I’m not positive which format will win out. There are movies on both that I really love. Perhaps for Christmas…..
So wii just released their Weather Channel integration and I just read THIS:
Look at the Weather Channel! Now switch your regoin to a snowy region or rainy region.
Now go play Madden & look at the weather…it WILL BE THE SAME AS WHAT THE WEATHER CHANNEL IS!!!
That is AWESOME! It reminds me of Metropolis Street Racer on Dreamcast, with the real-time location clock. (Or I guess of 24/7 mode on NBA 2k5 or 6.) (By the way, that feature on MSR was the best and probably the biggest “failing” of Project Gotham Racing on Xbox.)
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The Year in Film: 2006, the quiz
I haven’t taken it yet, but I’ll post my results after I do.
via Cinematical
Tivo on Comcast boxes. The testing has begun. This is exciting news. Hopefully it won’t take forever for it to roll out nationwide.
via Engadget HD
get your portable apps here, for OS X that is. Apparently they aren’t free, donationware. I like the idea of portable apps, but I’ve never really used them. Granted it would help if I had a thumbdrive. For whatever reason I find carrying that around much easier than carrying a tiny cable to hook up my phone and its 1GB mem card (nevermind that I ALWAYS have my celly with me).
okay, still don’t know how to make links. I’m still an idiot.
So here it is, live, after a few years and a lack of posts, for whatever reason (namely $3 domain registration) to bring my blog back. I’m going to be migrating over from blogsome. It used to be a link/commentary blog, but now I think it’ll just be a general blog about whatever I want. No real focus (which I know is a mistake for a blog, but whatever, the title of the blog is what it is for a reason). Well for the 3 people that read my blog (or used to when I posted semi regularly), hope you like it (hell, hope I keep writing it).
So I installed tangerine and it totally kicks! I’ve started to tell everyone about it. My friend just picked up running with his new Nike+ kit (we’re currently in a tight race using the Nike+ challenge!) and I told him about it and he is all about it. As am I. All my tangerine based playlists are named “Tangy X.” I’ve only made a few, and it’s dope that they have built in profiles for different kinds of playlists (BPM rising and falling, “hills,” etc.). Though if you want to talk about party/jam mix cds, according to Barney of “How I Met Your Mother,” it should be “always rising!”
I’m at work so I can’t download and try this little app. But I’ve high hopes that it is what I’ve been looking for for so long. (“For for?” Can that be right?) These days I have so much new music that I set my nano to shuffle by album so I can listen to it all, but normally I shuffle all, which means I am skipping songs left and right. I hope this works as well as I want it to. Follow-up to follow once I install and try it out.
a short list of slang for denim offered by James Sullivan, author of Jeans.
“Fornication Pants”: The term used by Mormon leader Brigham Young, back in the 1830s, to describe the new style of denim work pants featuring front-and-center button closures. (Before this provocative innovation, men’s pants fastened down the sides.)
“Bibless Overalls”: A la “horseless carriage” or “motion picture,” the garment industry’s term to help people understand a radical concept. Used until the fifties.
“French Jeans”: A synonym for designer denim from the pre–Calvin Klein days. “In the early seventies, there was a store in New York called French Jeans, and they sold brands like MacKeen that had slimmer cuts and fancy stitching on the pockets,” Sullivan says. “In The Bad News Bears, Tatum O’Neal’s character agrees to play for Matthau’s team only when she’s promised a pair of French Jeans.”
“Tommy Hills”: Yes, we’d forgotten about that too, but Hilfiger jeans were indeed huge in the mid-nineties. “A lot of rappers would mention their ‘Tommy Hills’ in their songs,” says Sullivan.
“Wack Slacks”: “Back when there was a lot of hype around the Seattle music scene, a reporter from The New York Times called a marketing person in Seattle and asked her to describe grunge culture. The marketing person told him that grunge had its own slang and that old ripped jeans were known as ‘wack slacks.’ The Times printed it, not knowing that the marketing person had made it all up.”
hmm, i used to be all for jeans at the office, but now maybe not… fornication pants? sounds like a sexual harrasment suit waiting to happen. ahha
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