My iPod Touch was delivered yesterday. At first I was so excited! Before you get all happy for/envious of me, though, it stopped working after a couple of hours. I’ll have to send it in for repair: the headphone jack is so loose that nothing will stay plugged in, and so I can’t play any music. Oh well. I’m also waiting to upgrade to Leopard (I’m waiting for SuperDuper!) so I’m in delayed gratification mode anyway.
Unfortunately, I spent an hour or two bookmarking all my favorite YouTube videos, and all those bookmarks will be lost when they reset the iPod, as I’m told they always do. I’ll have to redo them, wahh.
However, before it crapped out, I was able to send an email to Brian and ask how he’s doing up there in the cold(er) north. It may take a while to get fully up to speed on the tiny virtual keyboard, but I’m catching on.
The integration between apps is very good. For example, you can go from a contact to their address on the map, or vice versa - add a map location to a contact.
Since I’ve stopped using iCal and now rely on Remember The Milk, I also coughed up 25 bucks and signed up for Remember The Milk Pro so I could access their very nice iPhone/Touch interface.
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From a story in the SC Sentinel:
Police spokesman Zach Friend said the department receives funding from the state Office of Traffic Safety to run pedestrian safety operations cracking down on drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. The department also addresses jaywalking during these operations.
Friend said that people who want to report these type of issues or to suggest locations for these operations are encouraged to call the department’s Traffic Section at 420-5860. And stepping on the gas is actually a very bad idea, now that I think about it.
Did you get that number?
420-5860
I plan to suggest the intersection of Soquel and Branciforte. Just about every evening I cross Soquel to get to Branciforte. I push the button and wait for the walk light, I often dismount from my bike and walk across the crosswalk, with my bike lights blinking if it’s twilight or later, and still, still, so many drivers act like they’re actually trying to hit me, or at least, like I’m invisible and the crosswalk is too. They like to hunker down right on top of it.
Anyone else know of trouble spots that should be reported?
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A little bird told me that Cat Power’s new album Jukebox, due out on January 22, is going to be very good. Jukebox will probably appeal to both old and new Cat Power fans.
Most of the tracks are covers, although you should expect the unexpected; you may hardly recognize the songs, transformed as they are. Song to Bobby is a new original; that’s Bobby as in Dylan.
I recommend this very interesting review. And of course I recommend getting the album at the soonest possible moment.
Here’s the track list:
1. New York
2. Ramblin’ (Wo)man
3. Metal Heart
4. Silver Stallion
5. Aretha, Sing One For Me
6. Lost Someone
7. Lord, Help The Poor & Needy
8. I Believe In You
9. Song To Bobby
10. Don’t Explain
11. Woman Left Lonely
12. Blue
As a bonus, here’s a video of Cat in the studio (after the jump):
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Noche de luna llena…Full moon night by *L*u*z*a*
I just had to share this gorgeous photo. Fits in well with this site’s theme, don’t you think?
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Thanks to NetNewsWire Ma.gnolia.com, I now offer you an ever-changing selection of fresh links in the Jessibird sidebar to recent articles and bits around the Web, handpicked by Jessi. Check it out under Juicy Worms.
Update: I forgot to mention you can even subscribe to an RSS feed of my Juicy Worms.
Of course, the items in the feed all come from the other pages and feeds I read, but there’s nothing wrong with that. I believe in recycling.
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What about not blocking the entire width of the crosswalk do drivers not understand? I barely escaped the Branciforte/Soquel intersection with my life. And if you, dear driver, ended up blocking it ’cause you didn’t realize that the heavy traffic was not going to magically speed up for you, then why didn’t you at least have the courtesy to let me squeeze through as I try to walk my bike across, instead of pulling up further to reduce my squeeze space? Do you want me to scrape against your car as I go through? ‘Cause I will if I have to!
And people who honk their effing horns for no good effing reason: Your horn has no magical powers to make every other vehicle and pedestrian on the road suddenly evaporate. Heavy traffic is heavy traffic. Deal with it like the rest of us.
GRR!
Thanks for listening.
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