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Working iPod Halloween Costume
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
it seems to me you went as "Guy with Giant iPod around his neck.".
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how does this get on slashdot?
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume"
great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
You should continue to qualify that statement with "hot women," though. And it IS just a generalization.
Typically, the range of women presented to your average geek is:
sane, hot, intelligent, available, nice
Pick any four.
Not only that, but typically, girls who are hot just don't have to be nice. Or intelligent, or pursue any kind of intellectual pursuit. And the ones that are hot AND intelligent usually have something seriously wrong with them emotionally/mentally. Something about being attractive and knowing you're attractive, and being told you're attractive and getting your way because you're attractive for most of your life, drastically messes people up.
There are exceptions, of course, to these rules of thumb. But the exceptions always have boyfriends. Who aren't you, by the way.
Not much has happened in my 25 years of life to ever shake me from this analysis of the situation, but I'd be very interested in the opinions of anyone who thinks otherwise.
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After fellow Slashdotters are done, *someone* is going to have to do a lot of explaining to UMICH's IT department... and convincing as well to keep his account around.
The technology on this just flat out smokes the design execution. This would have been better as a Nomad given the shoddy design of the costume as a whole.
That just looks horrible. And that is what costumes are about. Looks.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
a real scary Halloween custume is Death framed inside a blue-tinted Window.
It's so fashionable to bash MS, but when someone says anything negative about Apple, their viewpoints are automatically squelched as if we live in Cuba or China. Mac-zealots are an arrogant, egocentric scourge.
I'm not complaining of high resolution images when there's a hot woman in one of them.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.