MexicanDragon

Happy B-Lated B-Day, Shelly! **BRENT**

Heh. All these people saying "Happy Birthday" on your birthday instead of driving to Atlanta to see you. Silly silly people. Yeah, I remember talking to you yesterday and you brought up birthday, and I completely didn't know it had actually just passed. You should order up your B-Day present you were talking about yesterday. Seriously, should make a great gift. Just pick one and then get the other one next year. **BRENT**

Hippie. My little girl has computer class at school. They see mommy and daddy on their computers and are interested. There are educational games/websites. Did you not have a Speak & Spell when you were a kid? It's kinda like that, but more. It also keeps old computers from hitting the landfill and killing the planet. Planet Killer. **BRENT**

FWIW, I was able to play FLAC out of the box of one I bought my little girl at Christmas. For supporting drag & drop I believe there is a setting you change on the player, which is just changing USB mode. **BRENT**

My kids have had their own computer for about a year now (7/4 now). They are both good with it. Wired mouse + leaving the trackpad functional would be my recommendation (keeping orientation right + not losing it = reasons to go for wired). My kids are fine with a regular sized mouse, but the mini ones would be fine. Xavier did take the scissors to the cord one time, so I wouldn't put TOO much into a mouse, now that I think about it. I have firefox set up with the bookmark bar at the top. I have a link to NickJr.com, cartoonnetwork.com, hulu.com (for the kids' section) and also a link to Netflix.com for the Kids' section of "Watch Instantly." Zoe also has her own facebook account with her own farmville farm , though that may be more for the wife's benefit than hers. There are probably a lot of games like that on FB, though. There are sites out there that do educational games too, but I'll have to go look to find those, I believe. Depending on how old the machine is, I'd probably do a fresh install of XP. I believe a few of the games the kids have on their machine are from realarcade.com, but maybe that was just the older one. There is some cheap (7$ or so) subscription I have where the kids (and/or wife) gets game credits monthly. Also, you'll want to set up Foobar and all appropriate plugins, or maybe break down and install iTunes. That way he'd be most of the way ready for his ULN-2 when he gets to "upgrade" to a mac next year. **BRENT**

You kids ready? My kids are (almost) ready. Rules for bringing your kids to a meet. 1) Make sure they have their own rigs (Zoe = Sansa Clip+ -> JVC Flats (pink) / Xavier = 4th gen iPod Nano -> PX100s) 2) Bring crayons/paper/coloring books 3) Bring extra cellphones/gaming devices for the road (multiple hours round trip) 4) Bring a Wii Should be an interesting day... **BRENT**

Thanks for that link. I watched the JH interview, and it made me definitely want JH13s over JH16s now. Creed uses JH16s. Horrible. **BRENT**

Jeff, I have one of those for my Storm. It's the most overkill thing I've ever seen. That case alone makes me want to get an iPad just to put in it. I think you would want to get something like the Invisible Shield and take out the built in screen protector (not that great, bubbles, but it protects well). Seriously, that is bad ass. **BRENT**

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Haven't been around much but the past week: Started a new job last Monday. Easy stuff, being trained, learning quicker than others, applying things quicker than others, kinda having fun with that part. Realizing I need to go back to school. Eyes are shot from looking at crappy screens all day without access to HC Chat. Got to go out drinking for the first time in a long time with some people friday after going to a AA minor league baseball game (Chattanooga Lookouts, former Reds and now Dodgers farm team). The blue hats are much cooler than the red ones. I did take my camera to the game/after-game festivities and got a few hundred pictures (many just playing with settings while shooting fireworks). Oh, after getting in around 4am I was right back up to go to my little girl's penultimate soccer game of the year. Skies were overcast, starting to sprinkle, but the game wasn't called off. That is, until we got there. We pulled in as 75 SUVs were pulling out of a lot in the pouring down rain. I then spent 2 hours with the kids in a waiting room with about 15 other people waiting to see my brother during visitation in a local "correctional facility". That was a blast. Then went to a birthday party 1.5 hours late for someone from Xavier's daycare... wound up hanging out for 3 hours. The woman throwing the party (the kid's grandmother) and I talked for a couple hours while the kids played. She has a pet wolf. Memo to self: don't let Xavier spend the night. So far the new job is going well, though. Spent all of today out of training an "on the floor." We have certain standards to meet, and a way to keep track of it. I was on goal to beat what I needed today, but we ran out of work, so back at it again tomorrow. Heh... I did have to tell my trainer how to use a new messaging system we got, and was, on my second or third day, called out by my supervisor (above the trainer) about giving advice to the other trainees (over what had just been covered... some didn't retain the information as well). Heh. Oops. **BRENT**

Something I shot the other night, straight off the cam (need to install CS4 and mess around with it some). Shot in downtown Chattanooga whilst some friends (and strangers) were traversing the streets trying to figure out why we took a bus a few miles out of the way when it turns out that it was the last one of the night. Oh well, plenty of bars on the way back (including some with live music and 15 y/o scotch), and we hit every one of them. This was just before the rain came. I wish it would have come out better, but meh, I'm just getting started (if you don't count the thousands of soccer photos I have). **BRENT**

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Do you ever find something you just NEED to own? I just did. Amazon.com: Welder Men's K29-8001 K29 Triple Time-Zone Chronograph Black Ion-Plated Stainless Steel Watch: Watches **BRENT**

JH Audio's Photos - Sweet Ears | Facebook They have a demo pair for something. However, I DID just notice that they do blacklight invisible! JH Audio Photos | Facebook FWIW, I'm not SURE if that is what they're calling "Blacklight Invisible", but it's listed as "clear blacklight paint on a test shell", so I'm thinking that's what it is, though really, I figure they could do clear blacklight over any color, though it would probably produce a bit of a haze. **BRENT**

Hey Colin... Dew eet. Now that I'm at this new job and I've seen working conditions, I MAY be able to get away with Grados for a little bit, but yeah, I figure it's about time to start thinking about color/art choices. So, since after seeing pix of my previous choice (blacklight yellow/black, or something like that), and knowing that won't work for what I wanted, I'm thinking this: Black with "Beats by Dr. Dre" logo or Magenta Blacklight or Black Eye Blue with "Skullcandy" logo Thoughts? **BRENT**

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That's better than those silly things he was wearing when I saw him at the airport... Oh, Vicki also had the Shure 840s for a little while. For 120$, may as well give 'em a shot while you're waiting in line for your ThunderPantses. **BRENT**

iPhone 4G: proof -- Engadget I still say it has to be a prototype, but I figure much of the placement/functionality is going to wind up in the final - probably aluminum unibodied - iPhone 2010. **BRENT**

Sat through a poorly coached soccer game in miserable weather with a pollen count approaching 10x over "very unhealthy". Thank Satan this bloody season is almost over, and I can hide inside until winter, when I can breathe. Seriously, any coach who lets his team be named "Pinkalicious". **BRENT**

Jeff, did you already get your Overdrive? It has a list of all of the stores that have the case. None are around here or I'd get one for you, but NJ has 4. Looks like they are giving them out free with the Overdrive. That really is a beautiful thing. **BRENT**

And post 8523 begets... Nice pick-up, Al. I'm almost jealous... almost. **BRENT**

Too bad. pico dacPad and TTVJ Portable (Slim)Pad just don't have the same ring to them... **BRENT**

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