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Thanks to me, half my friendslist now violently despises the other half, and I love it.
On a related note, I'm strongly considering a separate journal/community/something for all fake-fight-related content. I write long-winded journal entries so I hate doing more than one a day, and lately that quota keeps getting filled by the same subject over and over. Voting is up on yesterday's poll and while I'm sure there are other reasons, I think the fact that the entry was short enough not to use a cut increased exposure. Also, we're obviously gonna have to do another tournament someday, and by then I expect I'll be treading on someone's patience. Someone who came to my journal to read about...I don't know, politics or something. Poor guy.
On a completely unrelated note, I need some advice on MP3 players. I asked my mom what she wants for Christmas and ended up with this exchange:
MIKE: Hogan's Heroes Season Five.
ME: Shut up, I wasn't asking you.
MOM: I have a question...
ME: Okayyy...
MIKE: Hogan's Heroes Season Five.
ME: Thanks, Mike, we got it...
MOM: If I got an MP3 player, could I just put songs from my CDs on it, or would I have to turn them into MP3s first?
ME: OK, first you'd have to turn the songs into MP3s on your computer, and then put the MP3s on the MP3 player--
MOM: OK, never mind, it's too hard.
ME: But--
MIKE: This one time, Dooley--he's the she-male--he had to steal Hitler's left boot and make a radio out of it, so Hogan...
Anyway, here's the thing--my mother is not an idiot. Now granted, she and my dad still double-click hyperlinks on web pages, but on many occasions she has bragged about how easily she can do computer stuff that has her fellow kindergarten teachers bamboozled. She learned to use a digital camera and a printer/scanner. I know she can handle an MP3 player. The trouble is that I don't happen to own an MP3 player yet, so for all I know it's even easier than I think it is to put songs on it, and I just don't care because I know it's easy enough for my advanced brain.
So here's the score--my mom teaches kindergarten and relies heavily on her vast collection of Dr. Jean and Raffi albums to get through a typical day. She used to use a tape deck, then everything went on CD so she got a CD/tape deck, and then she learned to use a CD burner to make mixes so she wouldn't have to switch discs so much. What she really needs is an MP3 player with all her music on it so she can hook it up to some speakers, look up a song, and play it. She doesn't need access to an online music store because she already owns all the songs she'd put on the player. She doesn't need something that shuffles or randomizes the playlist because there's a specific time and place to play "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." All she needs is something that she can easily load several CDs' worth of music onto, and then cue up with minimal hassle. What sort of MP3 player would she be happy with?
Bonus points if this is something I could completely teach her how to use by December 26th.
On a related note, I'm strongly considering a separate journal/community/something for all fake-fight-related content. I write long-winded journal entries so I hate doing more than one a day, and lately that quota keeps getting filled by the same subject over and over. Voting is up on yesterday's poll and while I'm sure there are other reasons, I think the fact that the entry was short enough not to use a cut increased exposure. Also, we're obviously gonna have to do another tournament someday, and by then I expect I'll be treading on someone's patience. Someone who came to my journal to read about...I don't know, politics or something. Poor guy.
On a completely unrelated note, I need some advice on MP3 players. I asked my mom what she wants for Christmas and ended up with this exchange:
MIKE: Hogan's Heroes Season Five.
ME: Shut up, I wasn't asking you.
MOM: I have a question...
ME: Okayyy...
MIKE: Hogan's Heroes Season Five.
ME: Thanks, Mike, we got it...
MOM: If I got an MP3 player, could I just put songs from my CDs on it, or would I have to turn them into MP3s first?
ME: OK, first you'd have to turn the songs into MP3s on your computer, and then put the MP3s on the MP3 player--
MOM: OK, never mind, it's too hard.
ME: But--
MIKE: This one time, Dooley--he's the she-male--he had to steal Hitler's left boot and make a radio out of it, so Hogan...
Anyway, here's the thing--my mother is not an idiot. Now granted, she and my dad still double-click hyperlinks on web pages, but on many occasions she has bragged about how easily she can do computer stuff that has her fellow kindergarten teachers bamboozled. She learned to use a digital camera and a printer/scanner. I know she can handle an MP3 player. The trouble is that I don't happen to own an MP3 player yet, so for all I know it's even easier than I think it is to put songs on it, and I just don't care because I know it's easy enough for my advanced brain.
So here's the score--my mom teaches kindergarten and relies heavily on her vast collection of Dr. Jean and Raffi albums to get through a typical day. She used to use a tape deck, then everything went on CD so she got a CD/tape deck, and then she learned to use a CD burner to make mixes so she wouldn't have to switch discs so much. What she really needs is an MP3 player with all her music on it so she can hook it up to some speakers, look up a song, and play it. She doesn't need access to an online music store because she already owns all the songs she'd put on the player. She doesn't need something that shuffles or randomizes the playlist because there's a specific time and place to play "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." All she needs is something that she can easily load several CDs' worth of music onto, and then cue up with minimal hassle. What sort of MP3 player would she be happy with?
Bonus points if this is something I could completely teach her how to use by December 26th.