Rants

I received a DVD copy of “A Hard Days Night” for my birthday last week and finally got around to watching it tonight. Back when I was growing up you were either The Beatles fan or a Roling Stones fan, but rarely both. I liked The Beatles. In junior high school I wanted to be one of them, I wore pointy boots and grew my hair into a mop top. I bought all their records and practiced a Liverpoolian accent behind the closed door of my bedroom. No matter how good their music was, if they were just breaking into the business now, they’d have a rough go of it. At least until they could get their teeth fixed. George’s were dead grotty.

A friend asked me to make a copy of a borrowed CD. I took it home, ripped it into waves and then burned a copy with CD Text. I took it in to work to give him, but before I did I thought I’d listen to it. Good thing I did as it was silent. Tried it in another PC and when I still got silence, I tried in the car – nothing. Windows explorer read it as 20 cda tracks, the PC CD player showed 20 tracks and it “played it like normal, just no sound. Whe I got back home I checked the wave files and while they looked in explorer like normal files, when opened in a wave editor, they were 2 straight lines. Tried ripping 1 track again to check and got the same results, Ripped to an MP3 with the same results. So I figured what the heck, let’s try the copy CD option -that worked. What the…?

Not really, but I do dislike one aspect of it. Like Sunday is the day before Monday, autumn is the season before winter and I really hate winter.

If it seems that this blog is slow to load, it is the fault of Enetation Must be a server shortfall again. It seems as if their web site is MIA. Another one bites the dust.

One a good British note is Scaryduck, not that he needs any plug from me as he was just voted best British Blog or something and has got a note right there at the top of the Blogger home page. One look and “the blog that was nearly on the telly” will be right up there on your must read list, it is on mine.

Actually there are hundreds of horses in this town, unfortunately not enough of them shop at Staples in the evening. Because maybe if more of them did, Staples would close a little later than 8:00! Needed envelopes to mail off the Master’s Miata Club newsletter, so I piled into the car and drove over at 8:15. I knew I was in trouble when I pulled into the lot and it was nearly empty. Almost went over to Wal*Mart, but came to my senses and went to K-Mart instead.

Saturn Vue – Really cute commercial with these 4 20-somethings heading out to the swimming hole. One rocket-scientist sets up a rope swing and when he tries it out he doesn’t let go over the water, he comes back across the shore and slams into the side of the car. While lying on the ground, he tells his friends, “I’m alright.” Nice subtle touches to let us know this baby can go off-road and has those famous plastic body panels. I only wish before he launched himself he would have said the legendary redneck last words, “Hey Bubba. Watch this!” Too bad this thing is 1) an SUV & 2) ugly as sin (looks like the Saturn Sedan in a funhouse mirror.)

Viagra – Nicely dressed fellow at the office and everyone is telling him he looks different. “Did you get a haircut?” “Did you lose weight?” Etc. He just smiles. Could it be the bulge in the front of his pants?