I wanted to drop a note to let you know about my latest creation. It is a spoof on the Pepsi/iTunes commercial and how to always win at the game.
Length: 30 sec. This was written for a short film I made on how to always win a free song. You can see the video at http://homepage.mac.com/jimyounkin/iMovieTheater4. html. This song as well as the video are released under the Creative Commons License (cc)2004 Jim Younkin. Share and sample freely! Email me about this song at this email address: fluxdada-sodasong@yahoo.com.
Lyrics: "I walked up to the Albertsons, I bought some soda and they all won. I bought some soda and they all won. Hi. I'm one of the people that figured out how to get free music at the grocery store and I'm here to say, in front of everybody, what the heck am I gonna do with all this nasty soda?"
I used that thing into the ground and was sad to see it go when I had grown acustomed to wheel mice. I now have a Kensington Studio Pro Mouse. It's nice but you always remember your first love. I had that mouse trough 5 or 6 different systems. My Apple Design (ADB) keyboard also was a favorite and I found a new one at a thrift shop and use it with an ADB adaptor on my 12inch powerbook. Ch1p
IGIDRC (I guess i didn't remember correctly) Yes, it was NuBus not NuCard. Remember the 80's when it was cool to spell new "nu". Now it is about as cool as legwarmers and fanny packs.
Imagine a bunch of college students (like myself) getting a bunch of these things and putting them up in the dorms. Everthing on campus is in the 1-2 mile range. And I thought AIM kept everybody connected in the dorms. Imagine being able to have a "buddy list" that showed where your friends were physically. Now this would all be voluntary just like AIM, you can let only certain people track you.From my exerience college students don't give a crap about privacy if they can get their hands on cool new technology. Colleges seem to always be a hotbed for cool emerging technology (napster anyone). I can imagine a whole group of students buying there $25 tag and getting online and having things like "how long person X was within X feet of person Y" you could get rumors going and see who is "hanging around" who and for how long. I know it will happen. I could definatly see colleges hiding these in valuable euipment (like digital projectors, computers, LAPTOPS!) My school alone had over $60,000 worth of equipment stolen including 12 digital projectors) How about at work, I know at my work we carry keycards to let us into the building, depending on how big these tags have to be I can see companies integrating these with a keycard. I mean they already log when you come in and go out. The other cool use I could see for this was as an add-on for yout iPod, you could set it up to play certain songs in certain areas of the city (assuming the network would grow to cover a city.) Also it could be used for film making where cetain music or sound effects (or special effects for that matter)would be set off when an actor reached a cetain place.(Depending on how acurate these are) Also, no more garage door opener, it will open when your car gets so close to it. The "cool" uses for this thing are awesome. Sure it'll be used for evil but what isn't these days. -Chip Youngchild
I made it scroll from bottom to top and the tiles come at me like som crazed alphabet first person shooter. "Now you can learn and have fun all at the same time with DasherQuake!" Good thing I play a lot of FPS because now that I know FPS improve yout visual skills I can use Dasher to type all my stuff. It seems you could go into some sort of trance using the software, the way the letters keep flying at you. I played with it for about 15 minutes and this is what I wrote: "whit because of the super fast ability to insputtext wow this is great it is like sume sort of robot or sometotthin help me im falling down outside the rabbithole now what is the first time to see it i guess its not super fast but with practice it could be really cooli don't think it could handle much faster because this is like a svideo game this is much cooler than typing i this is the cool est thing ever I mean like wow this could revolution izthe way people input text I am going to try to to see how farst I can inputthings I see how it works now this has to be the coolest thing in a long time . Hodo people come up with this stuff ? It really is a mazing what computers can do"
Seems like a good tool for "stream of conciousness" stuff. Definatly mess with the preferences if you want to play with it. Oh yeah and punctuation and capitalization are in the options.
our group has been talking about this for months
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I set up a yahoo group for i2 inch powerbooks a few days after I ordered mine in Feb. We have been talking about this issue off and on for months now. Some have taken theirs back and gotten new ones, one person had an apple store employee actually "bend" it back into shape, others talk about the battery being the issue. I am on the phone now trying to get a missing rubber foot replaced through Apple Care. I must say, like many others have, this is the only issue I have had. I love my PB12. The yahoo grou is here, please join if you own one.
I guess this means that by the time I was planning to upgrade to a new Mac (Jan 03, my birthday) I'll have to ALSO keep my G3 to use all the apps i have grown to love in 9. This may seem a little convaluted but if my new mac could boot into 9 I could copy everything over and sell the G3. Glad I found this out before I decided to sell my G3 to help pay for a new Mac.
The e-mail, purportedly sent from an MSN.com address, was actually routed through the server of an elementary school in Chonnam, Korea.
I regularly check my full headers in www.uwhois.com and fire of a complaint to the isp's in the headers. In the last week i have recieved a couple of spams that have come through korean elementary schools and high schools. I am guessing these are abused open relays.. or perhaps the schools are making a little money on the side? "Our Korean schools are commited to being at the forefront of techonology. By the sixth grade our students are fully trained to fake headers and prepare bulk email for our American comrads."
Makes me glad I made an IE Web Archive of the whole story. I don't usually do that and I didn't think they would pull it. I do have the whole article which is nice. I still think this was planned all along. I mean just to "stir up the hornets nest". Maybe we'll find out soon enough the truth. Perhaps the iMac Jr. is least shocking thing we will see today.. we'll have to wait and see. I am skipping class tommorow just to watch the Keynote. I love Jobs.
Many readers have already stated how this thing looks like Luxo
Jr. from them Pixar short. I have noticed that many mac sites and fans like to give
distiguishing nick-names to the different mac models to help stop
confusion. I mean how many rev's are there to the iMac yet they are
all called "iMac". Perhaps "Luxo", "Luxo Jr." or my favorite simply "Jr."
I know when i get mine I'm gonna name it Junior. And all I'll have
to do is move my small tv off my desk and it will fit right in with
my (2) 17" CRT's I use for Photoshop. My desk looks a little more like
the console in The Matirx everyday.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( http://www.lds.org ) I was instantly intrigued by this finding. In the Book of Mormon it tells of great destruction in ancient America wherein
"...the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of the sea..." (3 Nephi 8:9 pg. 422).
"And Many great and notable cities were sunk..." (ibid. verse 14).
It just confirms my belief in the truth of the Book of Mormon further. For more info. on the church also check out http://www.mormon.org
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I wanted to drop a note to let you know about my latest creation. It is a spoof on the Pepsi/iTunes commercial and how to always win at the game.
. html. This song as well as the video are released under the Creative Commons License (cc)2004 Jim Younkin. Share and sample freely! Email me about this song at this email address: fluxdada-sodasong@yahoo.com.
Length: 30 sec. This was written for a short film I made on how to always win a free song. You can see the video at http://homepage.mac.com/jimyounkin/iMovieTheater4
I Bought Some Soda by Jim Younkin III (y3)
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Lyrics: "I walked up to the Albertsons, I bought some soda and they all won. I bought some soda and they all won. Hi. I'm one of the people that figured out how to get free music at the grocery store and I'm here to say, in front of everybody, what the heck am I gonna do with all this nasty soda?"
Just called, no need to call.. they're all gone.. shucks.
-Jim
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Please go back to the Vivisimo home page and try your query again."
I bet.
I used that thing into the ground and was sad to see it go when I had grown acustomed to wheel mice. I now have a Kensington Studio Pro Mouse. It's nice but you always remember your first love. I had that mouse trough 5 or 6 different systems. My Apple Design (ADB) keyboard also was a favorite and I found a new one at a thrift shop and use it with an ADB adaptor on my 12inch powerbook.
Ch1p
IGIDRC (I guess i didn't remember correctly) Yes, it was NuBus not NuCard. Remember the 80's when it was cool to spell new "nu". Now it is about as cool as legwarmers and fanny packs.
-Chip Frisby
IIRC old macs had a slot called a "NuCard" slot. Just a bit-o-trivia.
-Chip Frisby
yeah, i guess something like that, only a real product.
Imagine a bunch of college students (like myself) getting a bunch of these things and putting them up in the dorms. Everthing on campus is in the 1-2 mile range. And I thought AIM kept everybody connected in the dorms. Imagine being able to have a "buddy list" that showed where your friends were physically. Now this would all be voluntary just like AIM, you can let only certain people track you.From my exerience college students don't give a crap about privacy if they can get their hands on cool new technology. Colleges seem to always be a hotbed for cool emerging technology (napster anyone). I can imagine a whole group of students buying there $25 tag and getting online and having things like "how long person X was within X feet of person Y" you could get rumors going and see who is "hanging around" who and for how long. I know it will happen. I could definatly see colleges hiding these in valuable euipment (like digital projectors, computers, LAPTOPS!) My school alone had over $60,000 worth of equipment stolen including 12 digital projectors) How about at work, I know at my work we carry keycards to let us into the building, depending on how big these tags have to be I can see companies integrating these with a keycard. I mean they already log when you come in and go out. The other cool use I could see for this was as an add-on for yout iPod, you could set it up to play certain songs in certain areas of the city (assuming the network would grow to cover a city.) Also it could be used for film making where cetain music or sound effects (or special effects for that matter)would be set off when an actor reached a cetain place.(Depending on how acurate these are) Also, no more garage door opener, it will open when your car gets so close to it. The "cool" uses for this thing are awesome. Sure it'll be used for evil but what isn't these days.
-Chip Youngchild
I made it scroll from bottom to top and the tiles come at me like som crazed alphabet first person shooter. "Now you can learn and have fun all at the same time with DasherQuake!" Good thing I play a lot of FPS because now that I know FPS improve yout visual skills I can use Dasher to type all my stuff. It seems you could go into some sort of trance using the software, the way the letters keep flying at you. I played with it for about 15 minutes and this is what I wrote:
"whit because of the super fast ability to insputtext wow this is great it is like sume sort of robot or sometotthin help me im falling down outside the rabbithole now what is the first time to see it i guess its not super fast but with practice it could be really cooli don't think it could handle much faster because this is like a svideo game this is much cooler than typing i this is the cool est thing ever I mean like wow this could revolution izthe way people input text I am going to try to to see how farst I can inputthings I see how it works now this has to be the coolest thing in a long time . Hodo people come up with this stuff ? It really is a mazing what computers can do"
Seems like a good tool for "stream of conciousness" stuff. Definatly mess with the preferences if you want to play with it. Oh yeah and punctuation and capitalization are in the options.
I set up a yahoo group for i2 inch powerbooks a few days after I ordered mine in Feb. We have been talking about this issue off and on for months now. Some have taken theirs back and gotten new ones, one person had an apple store employee actually "bend" it back into shape, others talk about the battery being the issue. I am on the phone now trying to get a missing rubber foot replaced through Apple Care. I must say, like many others have, this is the only issue I have had. I love my PB12. The yahoo grou is here, please join if you own one.
12inchPowerBooks
-Jim
I guess this means that by the time I was planning to upgrade to a new Mac (Jan 03, my birthday) I'll have to ALSO keep my G3 to use all the apps i have grown to love in 9. This may seem a little convaluted but if my new mac could boot into 9 I could copy everything over and sell the G3. Glad I found this out before I decided to sell my G3 to help pay for a new Mac.
It's already been done but also included a PS2, NES, Gamecube, Xbox and a huge gaming pc in one box. it's awesome. Check it out here
The e-mail, purportedly sent from an MSN.com address, was actually routed through the server of an elementary school in Chonnam, Korea.
I regularly check my full headers in www.uwhois.com and fire of a complaint to the isp's in the headers. In the last week i have recieved a couple of spams that have come through korean elementary schools and high schools. I am guessing these are abused open relays.. or perhaps the schools are making a little money on the side?
"Our Korean schools are commited to being at the forefront of techonology. By the sixth grade our students are fully trained to fake headers and prepare bulk email for our American comrads."
Makes me glad I made an IE Web Archive of the whole story. I don't usually do that and I didn't think they would pull it. I do have the whole article which is nice. I still think this was planned all along. I mean just to "stir up the hornets nest". Maybe we'll find out soon enough the truth. Perhaps the iMac Jr. is least shocking thing we will see today.. we'll have to wait and see. I am skipping class tommorow just to watch the Keynote. I love Jobs.
Either way I want one.
Many readers have already stated how this thing looks like Luxo
Jr. from them Pixar short. I have noticed that many mac sites and fans like to give
distiguishing nick-names to the different mac models to help stop
confusion. I mean how many rev's are there to the iMac yet they are
all called "iMac". Perhaps "Luxo", "Luxo Jr." or my favorite simply "Jr."
"iMac Jr." is cool, kind of like "My First Sony".
Be sure to go get the short film. it is quite good. http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ljr/index.html
(Pixar.com).
I know when i get mine I'm gonna name it Junior. And all I'll have
to do is move my small tv off my desk and it will fit right in with
my (2) 17" CRT's I use for Photoshop. My desk looks a little more like
the console in The Matirx everyday.
-jim
www.geocities.com/younkin3
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( http://www.lds.org ) I was instantly intrigued by this finding. In the Book of Mormon it tells of great destruction in ancient America wherein
"...the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of the sea..." (3 Nephi 8:9 pg. 422).
"And Many great and notable cities were sunk..." (ibid. verse 14).
It just confirms my belief in the truth of the Book of Mormon further. For more info. on the church also check out http://www.mormon.org
-Jim