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Little bean pod or whatever it’s called [iPlop], w/ my new iPod in it.  The new iPod came w/ a little velveteen sleeve, which is perfect.  I have a great iPod case but it makes it too bulky to want to carry all the time.   So I was gonna buy a really nice fuzzy soft sock for it, but hey, the sleeve it came with is great!

I mentioned this to a couple people already, but figured it was blog-worthy:

“Bush Administration: Grand Canyon Created by Noah’s Flood -
Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces.”

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801

This country is going… nevermind.

When I saw this, I thought it was a joke article. When I realized that it’s TRUE, I got really upset and I just am having so much trouble believing that this is happening to our country. I’m just sick over this, not just *this*, but the trend behind this. I feel like I need to DO something to fight these people (fundamentalists). How can we be living in a world where science is considered a competing religion by hoards of people and people in power?!?

My 60 gig iPod Photo is really buggy.  It works, but it often won’t sync and frequently freezes up.  I want to get a new one, but I JUST KNOW that as soon as I buy a new one, then they’ll come out w/ what I really want: an iPod with WiFi so I can wirelessly sync the ipod.  I have wireless on my one point-n-shoot camera, a Nikon S6, and IT ROCKS to be able to just tell it download pix, no cord-hunting.  I wish I knew if a wifi iPod was on the way.

If shozu’s phone app and would just WORK PROPERLY, it’d be the best way to moblog. I [used to] like it best because;
1) once I upload a photo, I can then send it on to another site or person without re-uploading it (without paying for a second upload),
2) I can add tags upon sending a photo to flickr,
3) It reduces the image size on the fly which saves me a million clicks on my phone.

BUT!
a) the phone app rarely works without crashing and freezes up my phone constantly (and I’ve heard this from others so it’s not just me), and now
b) their frickin’ website isn’t even working right. In order to [RE-]download their software, they have this stupid new “enter the characters for the symbols” box which, even when YOU DO TYPE IN THE RIGHT STUFF it comes back and tells you it’s wrong!

My mood is declining. I’m getting pissy.

NPR did a thing on “BlackBerry Orphans”.  M and the guys he works with call it “The DivorceMaster 3000“.  LOL

It frickin’ figures. Dropshots.com was working great until I decided to pay for their “star” service. I was uploading .3gp videos with sound from my nokia 3650 just fine, sound was playing on dropshots, then as soon as I upgraded to the star service and upgraded the “dropbox” uploader, the newly uploaded videos are playing without sound. SAME file type FROM THE SAME DEVICE. I wrote to them and they don’t seem to understand. They just said “Some cell phone videos will upload without sound because the encoding on the video is incompatible with the architecture of our system. Please try uploading from a digital camera.” but they don’t seem to GET that they’re THE SAME files from THE SAME DEVICE.

… well, the clips work fine on Vimeo, I’ll stick w/ vimeo.com.

It frickin’ figures. Dropshots.com was working great until I decided to pay for their “star” service. I was uploading .3gp videos with sound from my nokia 3650 just fine, sound was playing on dropshots, then as soon as I upgraded to the star service and upgraded the “dropbox” uploader, the newly uploaded videos are playing without sound. SAME file type FROM THE SAME DEVICE. I wrote to them and they don’t seem to understand. They just said “Some cell phone videos will upload without sound because the encoding on the video is incompatible with the architecture of our system. Please try uploading from a digital camera.” but they don’t seem to GET that they’re THE SAME files from THE SAME DEVICE.

[I am so sick of writing posts and then accidentally leaving the page and losing the unsaved post. *sigh* What was I saying...]

Surfing the internet and watching movies on the Nintendo Wii using the Opera Browser:

It’s so neat now to be able to surf the net on the Wii.

..::PICS::..
We have the Nintendo Wii and they just released an Opera browser for it. There is something fun about surfing TOGETHER from the couch, sites like flickr and youtube are a lot of fun to watch together. Then we went to google video and watched some full length stuff such as the full movie Jesus Camp and a few documentaries. VERY COOL. Now that we can DO this, watch a movie on the wii, together, from the couch, theoretically w/ a bowl of popcorn between us, we are now wishing that there was a download-on-demand movie rental website where you can stream the movie IN THE BROWSER, not a watch it in a seperate player. So we just searched google video and youtube for interesting stuff.
Here is an article about download movie services but as far as I can tell, none of them stream the movie in the browser.

Using the WiiMote from the couch to watch movies is great; scroll around, pause, go back, etc.

kw: Surfing, internet, net, movies, movie, Nintendo, Wii,  Opera, Browser.

I love Shozu. I kinda miss my old moblog, but it’s no fun when the community is dead and nobody ever looks at your pix. At flickr.com, you always have ppl looking at your pix, so it’s more fun. So now I just use the tag “moblog” on my flickr account as my moblog.

Shozu allows me to upload pix to flickr, from my phone, with less steps than if I just emailed it. Also, it auto-reduces the size for the web so that I don’t have to, saving me MANY clicks on the phone. But for some reason, tonight, it’s not reducing for web even though it ABSOLUTELY is set to do that. Shozu has been SO buggy. It was on my nokia 3650 and it is now on my nokia N80 (both symbian phones). It’s always freezing up causing me to have to reset my phone. When I’m not using shozu or uninstall it, this never happens. Today a few times I turned off the phone, popped out the battery, waited a few minutes, restarted, and when I went into shozu, the first thing it did when I tried to call up an image was say “memory low, close some other programs before using shozu” or something like that. But there were no other programs running. I’m going to uninstall it and then resintall it. What a pain. I hate to have set it all up again. But I love it, just wish it wasn’t so buggy. From googling around, I see it’s not just me.

I could just email the photos straight from the phone, but it’d take many steps to reduce the image size and send. Shozu is like one or just a few clicks and it does all that (when it’s working right). The other thing I like about shozu is that shozu caches your images on the server until you delete them from the phone so that you can then upload a pic to another site or email address without incurring the cost of another upload. Shozu just signals the server without uploading the image, and tells the server to forward on the image to the second place. If it weren’t for these features, I’d try other moblogging services. Nakama.ca is really good because they have no software to munge up your phone, but then you don’t have the features I mentioned (although I will be taking another look at nakama, as I’m sure they are always adding features).

Ok, sleeping pill kicking in, so I gotta go.

Updated to add: I cleared most of the pix off the phone and it’s still freezing up.  Guess I am going to have to uninstall/reinstall after all.  Ugh.  I need to go to bed!

I ordered the Gorillapod for my point-and-shoot from kodak.com and loved it so much I got the one for the “slr zoom” from joby.com so it’d hold my Canon D60.  That version does not have a quick relase on it so I ordered one.  This is the one I got:
Bogen – Manfrotto RC2 Compact Rapid Connect Adapter w/3157N Plate

It’s really nice, very heavy duty.  Feels like cast iron.  Much more heavy duty than any tripod I have.  But it’ll be great to have a quick release!

from digg:

Student hurt by cannon blast at football game. Receives numerous threats.

“Brett Karch, an ROTC student, almost lost his leg due to a cannon explosion at a football game. The town’s reaction? Threaten to break his other leg if the story gets out to the media causing them to possibly lose their ritual shooting of the cannon during football games, sick.”

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Teen Given 10 Years For Having Sex With Girl Two Years Younger

“The Georgia Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a teen who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old. In a ruling released Friday, the court denied a motion for reconsideration filed by lawyers for Genarlow Wilson, who was 17 when he and the 15-year-old engaged in consensual oral sex.”

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Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX

““A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine. A screener watching the machine’s monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.”

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Japanese Fantasy Love Hotels even now has ‘Alien Abduction’ Theme Room

“For decades Japan ’s love hotels have provided a place for couples to enjoy anonymous, uninterrupted sex. Politician and secretary, teacher and student, husband and hooker — all are welcome, as long as they pay in cash and leave when the time limit is up. But 2006 spawned a new type of love hotel ”

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The Top 10 3D Sidewalk Illusions Ever

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So you can’t cook, well can you count. Make meals the nerd way!

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‘Santa Claus does not exist’ school tells stunned kids

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I love Leo!  And this video rant of his is hillarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZXiLY4bo80 

This might just make me a dork.

But I just thought it was really cool how the snowflakes at tmobile.com are made from the letter “T”.

Found at photojojo.com: