Today, I put my newfound knowledge to use in the service of self-pauperization, and now own one each of the appliances featured in the previous blog entry.
Also today, I found a child’s folding lace fan and the jawbone of a dog (?) in the yard. Pics to come, but I post via bluetooth from the porch. Which reminds me, Viv’s hard at work sterilizing the massive mold zone of one of the two inherited refrigerators – I should get to work!
This Yesterday evening, I have learned about washers, and also dryers, and furthermore, about lawnmowers!
One thing I have taken away from my studies is this: appliance prices appear to be tracking the housing market’s rise.
Things muses on relics and repositories, with a side of chocolates. The web is like a box of chocolates, you can’t stop until you realize you’ve had too much.
The Shemp Meditation Tape, from the longtime geniuses at WFMU, via one Dr. Alice Dee.
Alice, who loves ya, baby?
Oh man. It’s frickin’ spiritual, OK?
stacey’s finally done it – I am totally jealous of her brand-new very-old letterpress! All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was set frickin’ type, and the goddamn computer blew the jobs right out of the water. Man! I can’t wait to play with this thing!
I’d better get some kinda insurance as a motor-driven letterpress is a great way to lose a finger or break an arm, and for some reason, I find myself drinking whenever I go over there. But damn! What a deal!
This weekend, Tom mentioned that Bloglines and NetNewsWire work well together. I had no idea. The key is that you read the bloglines-hosted (redirected?) feeds instead of the feeds directly from the original providers. Hm.
The online help topic at Ranchero, “How to Use Bloglines with NetNewsWire,” covers this. Imagine that! Reading the manual to learn how to use a softwares!
In other issues, did AVG can the free version? I cain’t lay hand to hide upon it.
Another day, another meeting at the house. This time the contractor, an electrician, did not show up. We walked Karel through the house as well and he will be giving us a painting estimate. We’re also waiting on a full-boat contractor’s estimate that includes all of the work we need done.
I have noticed that since Saturday, I have used over half a tank of gas. Normally a tank lasts me a month.
NYT: Restoring Slumberland. Peter Maresca’s quixotic reprint project restores a selection of Winsor McCay’s amazing comic strip to full-size, on newsprint-like stock. The 21″ x 16″ book is priced at a bargain $120 and was printed in an edition of 5,000. The books are available for purchase via sundaypressbooks.com.
Man, long day. We met a contractor at the new house, ate at Cyndy’s Pancake House, showed the house to some friends, and then I picked up Dan, Spence, and Manuel for a League meeting in Georgetown, from which I have just returned.
The video iPod is not yet in Apple stores.
There is an Apple-hosted page on converting or creating video content for your iPod here. In essence, downsize it to spec using Quicktime 7 tools.
There is a page here which covers working with Tivo To Go content, importing and exporting it to and from the DRM the content comes wrapped in. In essence, use one of a few tools to save it as plain MPEG.
Unknown until tested are the undocumented features that may or may not be found in association with the S-Video out port on the new iPod dock; in particular, can the S-Video port support higher-resolution playback than the built-in screen’s native resolution of 320 x 240, quarter-VGA. Standard NTSC is 640×480, if I recall correctly.
Finally, will the iTunes store’s current podcast support seamlessly allow videobloggers to deliver content? Could an extant podcaster with a currently-supported podcast stream available through the Store slipstream video content to the new device?
Hmmmm.