Quincy doesn’t think much of Apple Computers,
yesterday (during some early-hours drinking) he coined the name “crap ‘n posh”
as a jibe directed at my Macintosh (the iBook G3) which can’t decode and rip (to
DiVX) while closed, and in my case running down Ship-row (after a really great
bar-supper - woah, Yorshire Puddings the size of your head - at the
Illicit
Still). I tried to argue that my iBook didn’t
need to do ripping on the go (on the move) and that it was probably
impossible… but maybe not, there must be a mobile solution to cloning
cds/dvds. A Panasonic Toughbook
may do it - PC Laptops have a nice option to “do nothing” when the user closes
the lid - an option sadly missing on my iBook - which has VGA out, it’d be a
perfect set-top-encoder!
Anyhoo - where was I going with
this… I’m compiling a how-to on DVD-PSP (memory stick needed) for the Mac. I’m
using ffmpegX and some other fun tools, there’s hacking-a-plenty but it takes
hours. Soon…p.s. I’d love a Toughbook,
shame about Windows.
Well, that was the most useless half hour of my
life - “The Apprentice” (the American version) was just on, and it was terrible.
Donald Trump (who’s mind lives in the 80s) has surrounded himself with
talking-heads who have one ambition - to kiss his ass thoroughly. Tonight’s
episode was
Advertising
(something close to my worker’s heart) but the premise of the show and the
ridiculous conflict / setups between the characters isn’t were I should lay
blame - it really is Trump’s fault. Ambitious people who are told they have a
chance in life… a Camp-America director once warned me; “American kids are
different, see? They are told - get this - that they
could
be President”. Well, if you’re born Bush… so these poor ‘contestants’ are
boardroom failures, if they are at the top of their profession - as they seem to
proclaim every four minutes - why are they on a TV Show?
This guy Trump - what a loony, and he
re-dubbs his boardroom speeches. Terribly. There are many ways you could re-work
“The Apprentice” but it is a wider problem than just this program- which is
hybrid American OTT / MTV Testosterone-tastic don’t-for-your-mothers-sake-stop
bullshit. TV is really poor - and its because of Talking-Heads, not David Byrne, the
kind Trump loves- people with a thesaurus and “another take on things” the folks
who have a Plan A, B and C - the kind of people who sit on awfully designed
sofas drinking putrid piss-wine out of ridiculous sphere-shaped glasses, usually
people will say these things happen because it’s fashionable. I don’t buy that.
People let stupidity endure because they don’t know what they want. I’m not
talking about life in general, because this is far too simplistic a theory to
spread further than the borders of petty advertising-speculation. People who
think different will inherit the earth, bah- that’s so obvious, right? I mean an
Apple ad
campaign urged you to think
different - and you failed. Yes, you personally! So bite
me.
I
know which I’d go with… being a British Citizen, not having a
mental
as President, I see the beauty in wasting Billions on exploring infinity and the
beauty in this photograph taken by “Mars Express”. Its dust - falling into a
400m deep crater… well, it was photos like this
or Little Jimmy’s athsma treatment.
There’s a whole high-res gallery over
on the European Space Agency’s website, Its not very user friendly -
but really worth your tax-payer’s Dollar / Euro. Anyway, on Space Exploration in
general it is really tough to justify mindless space travel when 11 Million
Children die every year from Treatable diseases. When we can’t find Osama Bin
Laden, but hey - Ice on
Mars. It was Quincy that brought this up last night, during a quip
with my parents, My Mother: “are
things really cheap over there [in the USA],
Quincy?”Quincy: “Oh yeah, they’ve spent all
their money on ridiculous wars and sending robots to the Moon. Free Health Care?
Bah.”Well, makes me sick - although
the
real
reason NASA got the shuttle launch up and going as soon as possible was due to
maintenance/upgrades on top-secret surveillance equipment, the shuttle and NASA
are a devision of the Defense service after-all. But who knows what Mars is
about, lets have a look in those Oceans of ours, before we go flying off into
uninhabitable deep-space. Photos are
good.
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