The furthest I have ventured out today is 3 steps out of the garage. I helped Donna bring in her early morning purchases from Publix. That means, you guessed it, the Miata hasn’t moved.
I watched a little football today and NFL coverage sure has changed. They have these overhead cameras that give some interesting angles on the play. Heck the last time I was watching any football with regularity, the Reverse Angle (Hey! Why don’t we put a camera on the other side of the field!) shot was a big deal. And maybe because of the overhead shots and digital cameras the game looked about like a EA Sport’s Madden Football 2005 video game. The Bud Light commercial with the monkey in the zoo was clever, but my favorite was for Bud Heavy, where the ref is taking all sorts of abuse on the sidelines and they cut away to his training regimen, his wife nagging him at 110db at home. Robert DeNiro did an Amex commercial, I guess next will be some 7 minute internet spots like Seinfeld did, “DeNiro and Green Lantern.”
Real Rhapsody has a few things figured out. I can’t just rip music from the sound card. I tried piping the output back into the input but into the line in jack makes a horrible feedback and the microphone is too sensitive so you get a lot of distortion. Even if any one of these schemes worked I would have had to manually separate the songs and then add the title & artist to the file name/tag, what a pain. So for now I’m just listening to a few old albums that I used to have on vinyl that I never replaced as CDs and a couple of what they call radio stations. The Celtic, Ska and Reggae channels are pretty good. Not enough to pay $10 a month for though.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 15
The title to this post comes from the back page of the main reason I barely left the couch today, Digital Fortress, Dan Brown’s first book from 1998. I knew that the series of digits shown was some sort of code, but being the lazy type I couldn’t be bothered to try and solve it, so I googled digital fortress number code and the first hit did the trick: Socratic Q&A.