iPod Videos

atom films has some movies to go, very easy to use, just click the little iPod icon.

internet archive is a collection of collections. It's vast & growing. When you go there, check out Film Chest Vintage Cartoons for old animation, like popeye, superman, betty boop, and newer ones like Lego star wars & spider-man. Dig deep into other collections for movie reels, fabulous 50's ads, and outdated advice on dating & hygiene. I haven't had any success downloading the very popular "Duck & Cover" from Prelinger Archives but I want it! Are you old enough to remember when cigarette commercials were on TV? Find them on Tobacco Control Archives.

You need iTunes 6. To view on your iPod, download mp4, mov, or mpg format. Then in iTunes go to File>Import then navigate to the file. Attach your iPod to your computer, drag & drop from the videos folder to your iPod.

Thursday

How did it get to be Thursday so soon. I told myself I would blog daily, and time escaped me.

I'm getting into downloading podcasts. Geeze, I feel so behind the the curve. I have a favorite:
Cory Doctorow reading his science fiction short stories. http://www.craphound.com/podcast.php
it's nice, like books on tape. I can't stand "big screen" on the ipod. ex: I have Casablanca, and it's so small, not to mention out of sync, that it's just exhausting to watch. Michael suggested some Japanese Animae, with subtitles! How the hell can I read subtitles on that little screen? Too demanding.


I have this idea for a podcast, well originally, for a public TV show, called Ramapo Roxors. I was thinking of five 5-minutes segments for each show:
1. restaurants: we have several top restaurants, & I know the chefs love publicity
2. pets for adoption: there's Grateful Grayhouds, the shelter, Paws 'n Claws
3. religion: just in our area are several churches, a mosque, synogogues, a monestery, a convent, & the Salvation Army Officers Training Camp
4. entertainment: art deco movie theater, live theater,
5. celebrities: Les Paul, May Pang, several writers, musicians,

Unselfish Saturday

Larry, Billy & I went to the Palisades Mall on Saturday. It's the second biggest mall in the US, and we're there almost every weekend.

Billy had a birthday party to go to Saturday. It was laser tag party for his best friend, Jacob, at a place behind the food court. I figured I would drop him off, then go get my nail done, buy a new outfit for myself, and then sip some coffee while surrounded by shopping bags, looking oh so chic & child-free. But, when I got to the party, he was already showing signs of stress, he was afraid that the vibrator in the laser tag vest would hurt. He wouldn't be calmed by my assurances, so I stuck around. Laser tag seems to invoke aggression in normal kids, but this party was made up of special needs kids: so some where afraid of the dark, some didn't like the weight of the vests with their sensors, lights on the shoulders, front & back, that vibrated when the kid took a hit, but mostly it brought out the Rambo in 7-year-olds, as it proved to one kid who decided that shooting my son wasn't enough, and hit him with the gun, too. Billy & I hugged & dried tears, and had a Dr Phil moment. Then it was pizza time, and Billy doesn't like pizza, so Jacob's dad got him some french fries from Nathan's.

The kids did a rock climbing wall, that's actually on a vertical conveyer belt, so it's like an endless climb up. The group was very supportive, cheering each other on to climb higher & faster. Larry joined us & got a turn on the rock wall, too. The party was over a little after 7pm, and I don't know about Billy, but I was tired.

The Stapler Incident

All names have been changed to protect the innocent. E is crazy, R is a joker, and S is junior G man with a secret decoder ring.

E sends out an email about the stapler by the copier machine is missing, but the string is still attached, has anyone seen it. She's worried that the cleaning crew might have taken it. (?!?) Then E asks the IT guy, S, to look at the security tapes. Now this guy, who makes about $200/hr is looking security tapes to find out what happened to this $1.75 stapler. And he finds a likely suspect: R. As R goes up to the copier, the stapler is there, then he's at the copier his body blocking it, then he puts something in his pocket, and walks away empty handed, but the stapler is gone. When confronted, R points out the stapler on the new guy, F's desk. R makes a statement at the nerve of F taking a stapler, when he doesn't even have a staple remover.

E has S print out a picture of R from the security tape. She takes the picture of R & draws an arrow through his back and writes "wanted" and leaves it on his desk. Somehow, S's boss gets a copy of the pic, and tells S not to do anything for E without consulting him.