Joyful nergasm! Or is it Nerdy joygasm?

[starshadow_rivaulx]

Let's just put it this way: I love it when my inner geek gets a chance to play with something outside the square and get it right. Basically, I have cut myself loose from iTunes, and having followed certain instructions to the letter, now have Floola running on my iPod mini - and I must say, it is so much more fun being able to just drag and drop files right into the iPod, and not worry about them being copied into your hard drive real estate. That means I can just rip tunes from CDs and transfer the music, then delete the music files from the drive if I need the space. Woot!

For anyone who's interested, basically one has to activate the iPod as a hard drive, install Floola, and there you go. Exact instructions here.

So now I have the iPod as my portable music library. The new ChiPod (I love that term) will be my portable video/podcast player. Ramon gets the Benq 512 MP3 player - all the music we collected for the iPod Mini fits perfectly into his old laptop drive, which was turned into an external drive when we got his new laptop. So all the media players have a purpose in life, and that's a good thing.

I think I already mentioned that the iPod speakers are now hooked up to the portable TV and the sound is just peachy.

~@~

Oh, wow. The Gubernator is addressing the United Nations on what California is doing to make the environment and the climate better for everyone. Who would have thought that such a thing could happen? Nice suit he has on, looks perfectly respectable. For an action star, not bad, all things considered.

~@~

It is a day for political speeches. Gordon Brown of the UK was at his first party gathering (?) and his speech was all kinds of rousing. He had Glasgow Airport's Smeaton stand up and take a bow (and it's highly possible Smeaton got more cheers than Brown). He lauded the initiative and can-do character of the British people. And so forth. I could have sworn I saw someone wiping their eyes when the camera cut from Brown to the audience.

The speechwriter should be lauded.

~@~

So with the UN General Assembly, the monks in Myanmar, and Amedinejad's speech at Columbia University - surely that's enough to push OJ off the front page, you think? ::checks CNN site:: Huh. The lead for AC360 is funky medicine - stuff that's not been FDA-approved may be prescribed by your doctor! Hm. Let's see how this pans out tomorrow.

~@~

All things being equal? I'm going to attend my first Qi Gong class tomorrow. There's a group in the Village sponsoring free classes at the Village Pavilion, from 8am - 9am. I live like three minutes away by car (because I am so sure it will be raining tomorrow morning). If this works out, I will have something to fill in my exercise requirements instead of renewing my gym membership.

Which reminds me that once October kicks in, I should go to the gym as much as I can manage it, if only to wring out the last few drops out of the membership that I barely used. ::sigh:: Which only proves my theory that I should never take out memberships to anything. Magazine subscriptions, yes. But no club memberships - I'll never have the time to meet the minimum number of visits or whatever, since something always comes up.

~@~