iPod = Easy?

Wasn’t for me. A non-computer literate person at work was given a iPod Shuffle for his birthday a couple weeks ago. He asked me today to take some music CDs and put them on the iPod. Took a lot longer than it should, maybe because I’m not an Apple guy. I had to load iTunes and it went on willy-nilly installing and littering my task tray and desktop with Apple icons. I figured out how to load the burnt MP3s to the library, no problem, but couldn’t get them on the iPod. Every time I plugged in the iPod it would say, “Updating iPod, don’t disconnect.” But nothing was put on the player and I did have the little square in front of the song checked. I did say yes to something erased the poor fellows existing music though, so I had to get something back on there…

All the options I wanted seemed to be grayed out or missing. Where was the menu item that said load these songs to the iPod? Turns out you have to click on the little iPod thing on the left side and drag and drop the files on it.

Now that I’ve done it the “hard” way, I’m going to see if I can do it the easy way – using a freeware program called Shuffler. Then I can unload iTunes from my PC.

How do you keep those ear bud cords from getting tangled? Seems like every time I put them down I have to spend the next couple minutes untangling them.

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 299

Back From The Land Of Twisty Roads

Been back most of the day, but I’m just now back computing. Installed the second half of my birthday present to myself this afternoon. I’ve got the basics loaded back on the fresh new hard drive, so I’ve still got a lot of software left to install. Those will happen when there is a requirement to use them.

While XP installed I went out and washed the car. It was quite dirty because at least 50% of the roads we traveled this weekend were wet.

Sorry if something is misspelled something, haven’t put that in yet…

Started up, went down, back up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 299

Deals Gap

Deals Gap

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 296

28,000 Miles

Somewhere in eastern Tennessee today the odometer changed from 27999 to 28000…

The Land Of The Twisties

Deals Gap

Started down, went up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 294

Goin’ Gappin’

Come back Sunday night to hear of our daring exploits at Deal’s Gap. It is supposed to be a MMC event, but there are only 2 cars going. That is not a *Club*, it is just a couple of Miatas driving down the same road at the same time…

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 291

Ruin Sorbees

I received this joke at work via email and it had the following preface: This has been nominated for best email of 2005. The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.

The bit about “best email of 2005” got me thinking, sounded to chain letterish to me. Enter “Ruin sorbees” in Google and got 1,320 hits, all referring to this joke. Some postings were dated in 1999 and one even mentions this making the rounds in 1997… The joke is pretty much word for word (if that is what you could call them), but the lead-ins differ slightly. Each one references it being published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, but search there for the same term gives zero results. A check of my usual myth-busting sites has no mention of this at all. I suspect it may be even older than that because it seems a little too unpolitically correct even for 1997. Anyway here you go…

(To get the full effect, this should be read aloud.)
Room Service (RS): Morny. Ruin sorbees.
Guest (G): Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service.

RS: Rye. Ruin sorbees. Morny! Jewish to odor sunteen?
G: Uh, yes, I’d like some bacon and eggs.

RS: Ow july den?
G: What?

RS: Ow july den – fry, boy, pooch?
G: Oh, the eggs! How do I like ’em? Scrambled please.

RS: Ow july dee baychem – crease?
G: Crisp will be fine.

RS: Hokay. An san toes?
G: What?

RS: San toes. July san toes?
G: I don’t think so.

RS: No? Judo one toes?
G: I feel really bad about this,but I don’t know what ‘judo one toes’ means.

RS: Toes! Toes! Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we boter?
G: English muffin! I’ve got it! You were saying ‘Toast.’ Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine.

RS: We boter?
G: No, just put the boter on the side.

RS: Wad?
G: I mean butter – just put it on the side.

RS: Copy?
G: Sorry?

RS: Copy…tea…mill?
G: Yes. Coffee please, and that’s all.

RS: One minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we boter and honey sigh, and copy…rye??
G: Whatever you say.

RS: Tend jew berry mud.
G: You’re welcome.