Headphones, Part Two
Nov 26, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Groggy
//NOISE: Legos clicking
After yesterday’s commentary on headphones, I have found a pair that takes the cake. Bulky and cool all at the same time. It’s the mTune.
Yes, that is an iPod in the headphones, and yes you can access the click-wheel. And it’s only $50! I wonder how they sound.
You can read more about them here. (Thanks to Mike for the link.)
Technorati Tags: headphones, apple
Linking
Nov 25, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Accomplished
//NOISE: Kids watching some movie
I finally cleaned up my Bloglines account. It has been getting kinda messy. I had 94 feeds in a folder called “Evaluating.” It no longer served its purpose because there was too much to evaluate. So…I just evaluated all of them. Now, I have 233 perfectly organized feeds. You can view them on the sidebar to the right. I’ve decided to do away with the “evaluating” concept. If I’m reading the blog, you are going to know about it. Unless of course the author has asked me not to link to them.
Now (unfortunately) I have a huge “Friends & Such” pile and a huge “Xianity” pile because it was getting too hard to sort. Now, it may be just as much of a pain. Oh well
I thought since I sorted out all the links, I would explain the new categories for y’all. Also, if I have linked to you and you think you are in the wrong spot or you don’t want me to link to you, let me know and I will make the change.
OK, here’s what I mean by each category:
//APPLE
All things Apple. Nuff said.
//FRIENDS & SUCH
There are a lot of people I “know.” They range from best friend types to acquaintances to people who go to Riverview. I threw them all in this pile. Too hard to further categorize this big group. It’s quite possible that some people in this group don’t know I know them or they don’t know me or they have no idea that I read their blogs. Well…now they do. Maybe.
//PHOTO BLOGS
One of my favorites things to do is my daily perusal of this category. Pretty pictures.
//PODCASTS
I’m a podcast addict. These are my favs.
//POLITICAL
I don’t often read this section. Just when I’m in the mood. For what you ask? Laughing? Barfing? You decide.
//POP CULTURE
This is kinda a guilty pleasure category.
//RANDOM
Don’t know what else to do with this crap.
//VIDEO
Vidblogs, software, etc.
//XIANITY
These aren’t necessarily “Christian Blogs.” Rather, they are sites that concern themselves mostly with Christian concepts. Some are decidedly pro-Christianity and some are decidedly anti-Christianity. The rest are nestled neatly in the middle.
Well, that’s about it. An hour wasted. But it’s like when you clean your car. You stand back and look at it with a satisfied grin.
Until a bird craps on it.
RIP Pat Morita
Nov 25, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Nuetral
//ITUNES: Baby Please Don’t Go from the album “Best Of Van Morrison” by Van Morrison
Headphones
Nov 25, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Conflicted
//ITUNES: Run Around by Blues Travelers
Dan was showing me the church’s new headphones for the booth this week. They just picked up a pair of these:
This inspired me to dig out my original Sony Monitors. I bought these 15 years ago or so. These are the ones I have:
I put them on and realized I had forgotten how good music can sound. All of my other headphones / earbuds suck in comparison. Now, I have a dilemma.
The ear-pads themselves are totally worn out, so they are not as comfortable as they used to be. They also have little pieces of the rubber (from the ear-pads) that keep falling off and I have these little black pieces all over my shirt.
But that is not the dilemma. Because I found I can buy the new ear-pads for about $15 online.
So want to start using these whenever I work because they sound so awesome. But I feel like I would looks stupid, sitting in a coffee shop wearing these massive headphones.
Again, not the dilemma.
I have no room in my bag. This is the dilemma. The last thing I need is another big thing to carry around. If I actually had an office to leave them in, that would be a different matter. Being the nomad I am, I cart everything around with me. Books, computer, mouse, notebooks, etc. Now I have to decide if premium sound is worth it.
Yippee
Nov 25, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Goodish
//ITUNES: (Who Discovered) America? from the album “Street Signs” by Ozomatli
I just got done reading Joel’s sob story about trying to shop on Black Friday this morning. Suffice it to say, he had a rough time.
So, I thought I’d share my story.
Since this summer, I have needed a new jump drive. In the paper yesterday I saw this beut. It’s a Verbatim 1GB Store ‘n’ Go:
1 GB, $39, no rebate necessary. Nice. You see a similar deal every once in a while, but you have to do the stupid mail-in rebate thing,
So, I headed over to Office Max at about 9:30 this morning. I stepped in the door and an employee was standing there with a flyer.
“Would you like a flyer?”
“Nope, I just want that,” I reply pointing at the picture on the front.
She then walks me to the front counter and grabs one for me. Looking at the long lines at the check out counters, she says, “Are you buying anything else?”
“Nope.”
“I’ll just check you out here then.”
Total time in the store? Roughly 120 seconds.
3 Things
Nov 25, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Old
//ITUNES: The Body is A Stairway Of Skin from the album “Films For radio” by Over The Rhine
Three realizations I had today.
1) I really have lost a lot of hair. I have the 21st Century version of a comb-over.
2) When I sit in a metal chair for more than a half hour, my back starts to hurt.
3) When I work in a dark room for more than a half hour, my eyes start to hurt.
I guess it’s just one realization, really. I’m old.
XLR
Nov 24, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Pretty Good
//TV: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
We all know that everyone lip syncs at the parade, but I just saw something that drives me crazy. The “Jersey Boys” performers were using XLR mics that weren’t plugged in. So every time they would sing into them, you could look into the bottom and see where they were supposed to be plugged in.
Arg.
Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Ready to go to bed
//NOISE: The furnace
Thanks to my mom for sending me this Thanksgiving article.
It’s from John Fischer and I have not been able to find it online to link to. So, instead I will post the whole thing here.
What Thanksgiving Can Do
by John FischerThe worst moment for an atheist comes when he is really thankful and has no one to thank. – Unknown
Thanksgiving is the theme song of the Christian. For a Christian not to be thankful is like a dog not to wag his tail at his owner’s approach. Thankful Christians walk around grateful for every breath, every sunset, every new morning, every color in the color spectrum, and every star in the sky. Like an alcoholic who is clean and sober, noticing beauty and taste for the first time, we are grateful just to be alive because we have been dead for so long. It’s hard to think of one vice that the virtue of thankfulness cannot render useless. One does not need to steal when one is thankful. A man does not covet his neighbor’s wife when he is thankful for his own. No one craves more when he is grateful for what he has.
In the same way, a thankful heart cancels out pride and arrogance. No need to judge other people when you are thankful for who you are. No need to measure yourself by and compare yourself to others when you are thankful for what God has done in your life. No need to keep anyone out of the kingdom of God when you’re overwhelmed that you got in. (God can let in anyone He wants. I am simply glad to be counted among the saved.) You don’t care if you get the important seat at the table when you are overcome with gratitude at simply being invited to the dinner. You don’t put heavy weights on other people’s shoulders when you are thankful that God has lightened your own load. You are not obsessed with what other people think of you when you are overwhelmed with the fact that God is thinking about you all the time. You don’t demand respect when you are thankful for your place. You don’t have to hide your own sin when you are already thankful for God’s forgiveness. You don’t have to protect your image when you are already number one with God. You don’t have to condemn other people’s blindness when it’s only the grace of God that has allowed you to see. You don’t have to try for the highest place when you are already grateful for whatever place you were given. You don’t have to make a show of spirituality when you are thankful for having received the Spirit. You don’t have to clothe yourself in holy robes when you have been already clothed in righteousness. You don’t have to be full of yourself when you are thankful that God has filled you up with Himself.
New Jeezit
Nov 23, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Grrrrreat
//ITUNES: I’d do anything by Simple Plan
I just uploaded a new podcast. Click here to get it.
Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2005 Uncategorized Hodge Podge
//MOOD: Working…kinda
//ITUNES: Look from the album “Pray Naked” by The Seventy Sevens
In honor of Thanksgiving, Go kill some turkeys.
