Boy, it's odd when headphones and glasses scrape against each other. I either need a different style of headphones, or to replicate this dude's engineering. (Honestly, though, I'd rather do it in such a way that the glasses sort of attach magnetically to the bar. Maybe that'll be version 2.)

Also, my USB audio box is overpowered when powering a Sennheiser PMX 40. I fear what this thing would do if you plugged earbuds into it --- it might be a little like the horrible experiment I performed on a malfunctioning pair where I got the diaphragms to tear off the surrounds... XD

Like, forever, there have been websites trying to pull in traffic by posting unrelated (or semi related?) product reviews to their pages as search keyword bait...

I suspect TigerDirect's doing it now too.

Why? Well, I can't help but notice that in most of their product pages, when the product goes on special, there are user reviews that do not match the product. At all.

Here's an example. Reviews mention a "modem" and a USB wireless adapter --- this page is for a PCI wireless adapter.

I dunno... maybe it's just stupid users... but it seems really strange!

Something just struck me about Kayoko Nakajima's "The Adventures of Zack and Max"...

Everyone has one of the same two or three faces. Well, except for the pig.

The Dayton to Dayton Calendar features all the characters with the same exact face.

Dear Eris. They're all ROBOTS.

How bizarre!

At one time, I would have complained about the fact that Miami had degraded to the point where the most interesting cultural event it ever had was the opening of a new shopping mall. Well, apparently we're in another boring stretch here, as Coral Gables just had a big unveiling for a cruddy traffic circle.

Wow. We're now celebrating the installation of 'traffic calming'* devices. How... epic. XD

* Also known as, "preventing a small two lane residential street from trying to become Interstate 95".

MetroPCS appears to have made some network changes. Connecting outbound via port 443 hits a connection refused(?), and the http proxy behavior has changed. Specifically, if you have at least the default user-agent on Firefox, you get an http 403 in response to... well, anything.

Solution? Use wap.metropcs.net port 3128 ... user-agent "TRI-COLOR FOAMING WAX".

(This can actually be anything you want, but dammit, I like putting the phrase "TRI-COLOR FOAMING WAX" in inappropriate places.)

I'm currently waiting on a block of nmap output...

Some forum thread I saw somewhere mentioned a SOCKS proxy on port 443 of wap.metropcs.net but I couldn't really get that to work...? The port is open for it, I dunno...

wap.metropcs.net redirects to byteprod.metropcs.net, ports 3128 (http proxy) and 443 (??) are open.

What a tangled web we weave.

The http proxy appears to be nginx 0.8.9.

I'm gonna try punching a hole through it later... http://sebsauvage.net/punching/

does anyone happen to know the status on miami rivertown? It is/was a planned mixed use development on the miami river at the site of the miami mahi shrine temple. Its plans ran afoul of the FAA at some point because the buildings would be too tall and in the MIA flight path, and it stalled. With the condo market flat on its ass, it is a mystery. However, I have reason to want to know how long the mahi shrine temple will still be around...

Ryko Softgloss XS 2: for when nature really wants a dead bird to drop from the air and go splat on your car roof. i have some pics of the machine up on twitter.... It's one of those machines that got f'd up during the months earlier this year when all the ryko parts and service kinda Went Away.

I got a new (to me at least) Laserdisc player, some Sony... I don't even care to look at the model number now. It needed its lens cleaned severely (and might still need a little more, I dunno) before it'd read.

Inside it, somehow mysteriously jammed on the spindle, was a copy of Robot Jox (1990).

The reason cheese, vector graphics, and silver stretch PVC are expensive today is because they created a massive worldwide shortage of these things back in 1990 during the making of this movie.

dear livejournal, today i gave an underage girl advice on how to stuff her bra. Am i awesome y/n/TRI-COLOR FOAMING WAX?

Whoa wait why and how the hell - now the post button works. Foxtrot this, i'm gonna blog from now on in moonbounced morse code. -.-. --.-

how to submit an lj mobile form on the samsung sch-r560: 1. Fill out form. 2. Press submit button - nothing happens. It's selectable but does nothing. 3. Press refresh. 4. Press yes at "Page expired, resend data"? 5. You are now successful. Ponder in disbelief as to how and why it works that way. 6. Remind self to switch back to sch-450 until the fun new 4g stuff rolls out on MetroPCS.

i think i'm going to post my film log stuff for my intro to film studies class on here, as someone who isn't my professor may find it interesting as well. the post office was surprisingly busy tonight when i went in to use the apc. they really should put those cute little things in convenience stores. also, speaking of shipping... THAT COMPUTER CAME BACK AGAIN. UPS kicked it back... But for the very last time. A ray of hope shone down from the heavens, and illuminated a pile of empty Dell packages next to an FIU dumpster! (remind me to write about this FAILarity later. It's just grand.) now it's in real oem packing and i can stop having a heart attack over it getting kicked back. Derp derp derp. Do you sell shag carpet? Pastaaaaaaaaa. Also, butt: (_|_)

If you've ever had the situation where you have audio in one place and want it to be in another, up to a friggin' world away, I

The Barix Instreamer is a cute little *very solid* aluminum box that takes line level audio, encodes to mp3, and serves it up on an internal Shoutcast-type mp3 streaming server, or shoots it to an external server. Encoding quality is very good.

The Exstreamer is a bit less exotic, and quite a bit less expensive. It decodes a stream and gives you line level out.

And... with either one, on current firmware, when you plug them in, this awesome stream starts issuing forth; from the line outs on the Exstreamer, or the headphone out on the Instreamer. It's a great selection of music that kinda reminds me of what Love 94 would have played back when they existed... and when they were GOOD... back in the early 90s.

Hit Open Location in your player of choice and paste this in if you wanna see what I mean...

http://205.234.220.73:80/barix_hi

Or, just plug in a Barix box. Either way. I highly recommend the little boxes. I mean, sure, you can use an old PC to do the same thing, but the Barix boxes do it on less than 5 watts of power.

Needs more penguin.

Proofreading
Always a good idea.

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Boy, that is a strange addiction, but I'm sure someone out there must actually have it. Come to think of it, IS this grammatically incorrect, then? XD

Oh hell, I was gonna post something thoughtful and meaningful but my brain is utter cheese. Also, check your tire pressure before trying to get a car aligned. If you do not, the alignment machine will pass it 100%... and it'll still be out of alignment.

It wasn't the mechanic's fault -- he checked tire pressure but was unaware his shop's tire machine was having Gauge Drama. He felt pretty bad about it, but I didn't really mind. He's gonna fix it up tomorrow.

And now, propane.


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Earlier I was over at Radio Shack (or The Shack... whatever) and noticed one of these on the shelf...


Radio Shack 12-519 Weather Radio with Skywarn Alert

So, for $99, you get this cute little gray plastic thing with stereo speakers which pulls in your usual AM/FM stations, can run completely on battery power (six AA cells), and also gets the NOAA weather broadcasts on 162.?? - 162.55 MHz... but then also has 20 programmable memory channels that can be anywhere in the ranges of 144.390* - 148, and 441 - 452 Mhz to catch ham radio traffic in the 2 meter and 70cm bands!

Wild. It even includes a jack to plug in an auxillary audio source, like an mp3 player or whatever.

Radio Shack is promoting this cute little thing as a means of directly receiving weather information from SKYWARN volunteers reporting via ham radio. Their scanners have had a Skywarn button for a while now, but this is on a far less specialized product. The instructions tell you to grab the local SKYWARN frequencies off radioreference.com.

I can't help but notice that Radio Shack is not attempting to promote the use of portable digital TV sets in an emergency. They do have a few models in stock, but they don't mention anything about using them in a storm or anything. I guess they, like myself, have given up on ATSC without a big-ass directional outdoor antenna that'll just blow away.

If I were to look at this from the outside looking in, well... I could say that listening in on the hurricane and weather 'nets' that take place on the radio here would be pretty informative.

Hello, radio.

Now, what's up with Radio Shack not carrying actual ham radio gear anymore? I mean, none of their stuff was particularly spectacular, but I did have a couple of their little mini handheld transcievers (the bitty ones that ran off two AA batteries) and those worked just fine and dandy. They were made by "Maycom", somewhere in South Korea.

* Leave the radio tuned to 144.390 only if you can decode 1200 baud AFSK data by ear. Otherwise, go decode it at openaprs.

I cried when I watched this.



And... it wasn't just me... the other guy in the room with me at the time also teared up.

The Harris Quest 500 is not a good transmitter.

Same holds true for the newer Harris FM rigs which are built around a lot of the same construction techniques.

We figured out why the @#(%*!!! Quests toast their synthesizer boards if the transmitter is left powered but turned off... the synthesizer is still powered and putting out its 20mW or so... which is being amplified by the exciter board to 8 watts.

That's right, an 8 watt amplifier, contained within a shielded enclosure with no cooling.

insert horns.aiff here

Hey, at least this is a little better than Harris's "HD"TV rigs, which go spare if the room temperature exceeds 68F...

Crown Broadcast: Do Want.