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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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tommyrot - Jul 17, 2008 8:43:55 am PDT #7106 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I thought the iPhone lightsaber was the most useful app...

If I could actually use it to dismember my enemies, then maybe.

An actual light saber iPhone is against the law. I blame the Enemies of Tom Scola PAC....


Jessica - Jul 17, 2008 3:20:00 pm PDT #7107 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So um, I just installed OpenOffice and it appears to be in Portuguese. Does anyone know where the option to switch it to English would be? Or have a direct link to Open Office 3 Aqua in English?


le nubian - Jul 17, 2008 3:50:11 pm PDT #7108 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

it is as if you work at the same place I do, and think similar thoughts to mine.

Oh man. I'm laughing, but I feel for you too.


NoiseDesign - Jul 17, 2008 6:20:09 pm PDT #7109 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

Jessica, maybe this would help.

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DCJensen - Jul 17, 2008 7:01:41 pm PDT #7110 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Bonnie: George Malley! You learned the Portuguese language in 20 minutes?

George Malley: Not all of it.


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2008 9:15:39 am PDT #7111 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

A site that has catalogs different blank cassette tapes sold over the years: Project C-90

113 different TDK tapes alone. I was surprised at how many I recognized - I was thinking, "I bought a case of those... ooh, I had a few of those."

But no Maxell - WTF? No wait, those are under Hitachi-Maxell. I bought cases and cases of Maxell over the years. The UD XL-II pictured here [link] brought back many memories. So did the XL II-S. Damn, I bought a lot of Maxell....

OK, I'm a geek. I used to be quite obsessive over my cassettes. I had a nice tape deck and was sure to set the levels, Dolby, bias, etc. correctly. I would record every LP and CD I bought, and usually just play the tapes. Plus while in college I'd borrow albums and record them, as there was so much cool music and not much money. I'd also make a compilation tape every few months.


Vortex - Jul 18, 2008 10:09:20 am PDT #7112 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

anybody know of a free program that will let you do curved lines of text, like along a CD label. I had a program, but my computer crashed and I can't find the damn CD key.


DCJensen - Jul 18, 2008 1:34:12 pm PDT #7113 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

The UD XL-II pictured here [link] brought back many memories. So did the XL II-S. Damn, I bought a lot of Maxell....

Yep, lots of those, and when my budget was tight, I bought a lot of these [link] Memorex DBs) from Kmart.

One of the latter I had Sgt. Peppers on one side, and Abby Road on the other. On my drive back from California in 1991 I played that tape when I didn't have any other music in mind. For a while after I got home, I could play it in my head without the tape.

One of the Maxell tapes you show had In-a-gadda-da-vida on both sides.


Jon B. - Jul 18, 2008 4:02:21 pm PDT #7114 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I still have lots of stuff on tape, mostly Maxell UDXLs.


Jessica - Jul 19, 2008 11:23:10 am PDT #7115 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So, my dad gave me a bunch of audiobooks for the drive up to Canada. Trouble is, he gave them to me as separate mp3s for each chapter. Is there an easy way to tell iTunes "hey, all these mp3s are actually one big audiobook, so moosh them together, 'k?"

Bearing in mind that I have a ton of other shit to do before getting in the car tomorrow at 6am. Right now I have each book as its own playlist, so at least the tracks will all play in order.