I really wish I could feel happy about the way the Democratic primaries are going, but I’m afraid I just can’t. I really wish the media had picked better candidates for us. Better than Bush is a pretty low bar to set, but I guess we’re just gonna have to take it. Unless one of the Republican bozos manages a win – which seems quite plausible to me, sad to say. I don’t think another 100 years of invading and occupying middle east companies to ensure high profits for oil companies and bolster repressive (but ‘friendly’) regimes that we can do business with is a particularly bright prospect. For many reasons – not the least of which being that we need to get off the oil to save the planet. Not too crazy about the prospect of a Kristian States of America, either.
Not to mention it’s back to work today. Bleh.
Actually, Audio CDs don’t use wav as their file format. They use Red Book audio (CDDA – compact disk digital audio). They’re both encoded in PCM, but wav is a data file format, and can’t be understood by regular audio CD players directly. The wav file headers have be stripped and the PCM data has to then be written to the disc as individual tracks with zero padding added, so it matches the CD’s sector size. I believe it also has to be 16-bit sampled at 44Khz (you can encode wav files at different sampling and bit rates; in fact, wav can use compression, though it’s usually used for uncompressed audio).
Nope, nope, I don’t think so. I mean, there are footjobs, but that doesn’t make your foot a sex organ.
Comment by pjsauter — January 27, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
Tell that to Dick Morris.
:rofl2:
I’m very close to throwing a brick through my TV. Ads for Willard, Walnuts and 9ui11ami are EVERYWHERE. Hopefully I can make it through the election tomorrow.
But there was one result this weekend that I found highly arousing:
http://tinyurl.com/2ksg7a
I had to look it up. She’s 66. And still :hot: :hot: :hubba:
It’s Monday. :joe: :joe: I don’t think there’s enough coffee to awaken me, this morning. But, another day, another devalued dollar. It’s off to work.
I can’t believe this but whoever the morning host is on WINZ has a mouthpiece for Blackwater talking and guess who’s fault it is that Blackwater had to be created.?…..wait for it……
Clinton ❗
:fu: blackwater and the war criminals who paid them :tommygun:
uummmm….., okay kevin 😯
Funny, I just watched Demon Seed this weekend.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😮 :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid: 😯 😯
❓ ❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
The Demon Seed … “Fear For Her” :omg: :growl: A!I!V!
I liked her better in Harry Potter :rofl2: :rofl2: I think I need MORE TEA NOW! 😀
pj- the plot synopsis was missing; you could fill it in since you just saw it 🙄
The PCM 44khz “wav” format was the Phillips standard developed for the digital recoding of sound data to be written to CD’s in the days when the minicomputer used as the digitizer wrote the raw PCM data to 1/2 inch tape from which it was edited and combined with other music files and written to a master tape which was then used by a mastering machine to make the CD masters.. The ISO 9660 format that most data CD’s are written in has almost nothing to do with the data format on a music disk..Phillips used some very secure PCM digital stream format developed for NATO ( pre Darpa) for actually encoding the data on the CD .. The red book describes how the table of contents and the digital music are written on the disks. The idea was that the technique would make the raw data stream off the disks almost impossible to steal :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: It also made the data recoverable in the case of scratches and finger prints. The formats for witting digital data on a CD are more along the lines of those used for witting data to a magnetic disk .. :tap: :tap:
BTAIM, you can’t just copy wav files to a cd and have a standard audio CD player play it.
Oh, was Julie Christie in Welcome Back Potter, too? I don’t think I ever saw that one. I’m more of a LOTR kinda guy.
BTW re :rofl2: Welcome Back Potter “i iz 4 both :bow: LOTR & HP :pirate: :yippee: A!I!V! :pup: :cat: :fist:
My sister’s a big hairy potter fan. All that fantasy type stuff. Actually, so am I (fantasy, that is; my tastes in potters lean more toward the small, not so hairy types). Although, I always kind of liked Sherman T.
But my sister still reads, whereas I seem to have forgotten how to read anything that isn’t on a computer, and I can only read a couple of paragraphs before I have the urge to click something. Made going back to school might difficult.
Here ya go, folks. The final Bush SOTU Drinking Game.
What’s the word for this one, PJ? You think he’ll say “freedom” a bunch?
BTW, any interest in having a live SOTU chat for tonight? Normally, I’d never be able to stand listening to this idiot, but Jill over at B@B set one up last year, and it was actually fairly tolerable. I’d be willing to set one up for this year, if there’s any interest in it.
They have a weighted list-o-words. For instance, freedom is 1 drink, god is 2, and edumacation is 3 (but education is only 1).
:knit2: I don’t know what SOTU iz? sniff….
now where do I go since Fat Eddie is gone…:-0 I will not listen to kinda ex-rethug ‘SC S.Miller :barf: :fist: :growl: :jerk: A!I!V! it looks familiar but I “clouded” over it and it just did not register … sniff, I need more tea
State Of The Union.
Delivered by POTUS.
So, it’s SOTU by POTUS, attended by the members of SCOTUS (among others). 😉
oooOOOOooooo Thank You — My brain keep getting caught on Kodo from Sodo :nod: :doh: :rofl2: … :fist: A!I!V!
The HuffPost has a big banner headline on their site right now:
JFK……..RFK……..BARACK OBAMA
I’m not an Obama fan, but I really hope that headline doesn’t turn out to be prescient for the wrong reasons.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I think a SOTU chat would be fun. It’s sure the only way I’ll listen to that twerp.
Sue P. 8) … Ya know it would be a blast. (hmmm which emo)
wait a minute what is POTUS = POT US? :rofl2:
WOW Sam is in … :pirate: :pirate: : FISA :growl: :fist: A!I!V!
pj, I could maybe be on for the 1st 20 minutes but I committed to dinner at friends’ house unknowingly. Maybe you can capture a transcript for viewing later. B@B’s chat last year was a lot of fun and made me mostly miss the damn thing.
Seder on live now for Randi and on SammyCam. C-Lo holding down the AAR fort.
My iMac is now announcing everything I am doing to me.
I hate when that happens!
POT US – anything like “beer me?”
Alternative viewing for SOTU – and makes much more sense – is a DVD of Fraggle Rock. madam Trash Heaps knows how to deal with a disfunctional POTUS. The real problem, though, is a corporately-sponsored SCOTUS with an anti-American agenda.
There IS no justice in the Un-incorporated States of America.
It took me ten minutes to go through the incoming messages when I got home just now. Good thing this damn election is almost over. (My primary, I mean.)
And, of course, none of the messages did anything to change my mind. Yes to renewing the school millage, no to Charlie Crist’s bullshit Amendment 1, and John Fucking Edwards for all the marbles.
As for POTUS and the SOTU, unfortunately I can’t blog, but I did tape Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew last night, so I’ll have something to watch instead. For some reason, every time Jeff Conaway is on screen, I think of Chimpy.
Nope, nope, I don’t think so. I mean, there are footjobs, but that doesn’t make your foot a sex organ.
Hmm, I must be all turned around on this boobjob thing.
Well I didn’t get past the psych portion of the test for Comcast, so no job there. Out of six people taking the exam four of us got the boot after the psych portion. I wonder if that means I need therapy now?
a aka A
You’ll do better. Hang in there.
You’re probably better off without them, Andy. Looking for a job sucks. It’s worse than working.
OK, I put up a very simple chat room at:
http://morningseditionists.com/mschat2/
Not much time to play around with it, and it’s nothing fancy. If it doesn’t work with Mac, Safari, IE, or Druid’s computer, I apologize in advance. Anyone who’s interested in hanging out, I figure anytime after 8:30 Eastern time. The more the merrier, so if you know of any lapsed seditionists with nothing better to do, tell them to stop on by.
Of course, if Jill is doing one this year, I shall defer to her, since it was her idea last year that made it so much fun.
It starts you out with a ‘guest’ username. Just click on it to change your name, so we know who we are.
Thanks guys! That;s why I hang around.
PJ, I’ve set up a Gabbly chat to go live at 8:50 PM. If you’d rather run it, that’s fine with me; I’ll just link here. But if you’d rather not bother, I’ll host it…at least till around 10 PM or 10:30 Eastern Time — not much later than that, though…
Whatever you want, Jill. I didn’t want to steal your idea, because it was a lot of fun last year.
A aka A … these tests are there to find the more “abstract” individuals … throw them out and keep the more “concrete” & “linear” thinkers … so they are looking only for those they can manipulate or control. “They” (the feds/gov) have been testing “we rats” for many a moon.
:fist: A!I!V! :fist:
A aka A, I have a feeling that no one on this blog could pass a Comcast psych test.
Yeah Sue and Dru it’s interesting. The four that were rejected were all older, around my age, and the two that passed couldn’t have been older than 19 or 20. But we were the ones with all the experience.
So, you think maybe it didn’t have much to do with anything other than age?
I don’t think that’s it, I think it may have to do with who has the more malleable personality.
And it would still be both. :growl: A!I!V!
And it would still be both. :growl: A!I!V! 😉
It probably means you’re the one who won’t kiss ass, brown nose or butt lick. That’s what thos stupid psych tests are looking for, SHEEPLE! :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
That was fun… I cannot get back the Chat so thus it is, and it was fun now Gotta fly a bit. I miss that I missed RAGING Granny — how many glasses of Wine Yum?
BTW It has been several days now “The Computer Said Yes” but slow but Yes YIPPEE A!I!V!*poof*
malloy made listening to man or monkey easier 😀 his podcast is recommended
Hope all had fun. I wish I didn’t have to bail. It looked like a good time.