New comment king, Ipod touch, sucking and spraying

Once again I am floored by how something as simple as using the word “oblivious” could spin into an entry with 14 comments.  It isn’t the first time Ali and I have had virtual disagreements.  I remember one time when we were living with my mom during the time between us selling the house in Wernersville and moving down to Florida.  We were sitting in the same room, each on our own computer, no less than 10 feet apart and proceeded to have an argument over instant messenger.  There was literally no conversation, just typing.  It was bizarre.

Reaper

You would think after Ali camping on the blog entry yesterday there would have been more arguing last night.  There was a bit of back and forth banter but nothing too harsh.  Ali seemed to think my issue was based in vanity when in truth it was simply an observation of how unobservant she is.  I have to add the pic that Charlie posted was brilliant and worth repeating.

Look closely

 I had to laugh out loud when I asked Ali about this picture.  She didn’t even notice what makes this picture so funny, the guy in the background holding up his sign.  It just furthered my point but of course that was not well received either. 

Jeremy went crazy with his commenting yesterday, telling me I was a jerk for tying in my possible motorcycle acquisition with my mom’s smoking. He followed up by saying he didn’t think it was a big deal that

Shanks

the lunkhead at the gym was using the leg press machine in his bare, stinky feet.  It was odd comment from someone who has abandoned the gym because of the excessive coodies he contracted.  I do welcome all comments, pro and con, they add to the discussion.

Last Christmas the “big” gift I bought for Ali was an Ipod Touch.  I figured it would be a great companion for Ali during her running.  Well two things scuttled that plan.  First the Touch was too big to be worn comfortably on her arm and second, Ali has done very little running in the past few months.  As a result the unit has been sitting around collecting dust.  I decided to take it into work and play with it myself.  The first thing I did was convert a couple DIVX movies to a format playable on the Touch.  To do this I used Videroa, a free but ad filled solution that seemed to do a great job.  It took a little more than an hour for it to convert a full length movie.  The movies looked great on the Ipod Touch. 

As I was digging around I found out they just released a 2.0 update for the Touch in coordination with the new Iphone release.  The upgrade costs $10 but is well worth it. The update greatly expands the features of the unit with real email and calendering as well as access to hundreds of applications that can be run on both the Iphone and Touch.  Some of these apps are free, some cost money. 

One free app I found that was pretty cool was Remote Control.  Basically you fire up Itunes on your PC, and turn up your speakers.  Then by using the Touch which is connected to your home WAN, you can control your Itunes library, playing and controlling the music on your pc via the Ipod.  It’s pretty slick.  There are TONS of apps and games available and I only skimmed over them.  The 2.0 update makes the Touch a much more interesting device in my book.

There are only a couple weeks before my brother and sister come to visit.  In preparation, this weekend I want to clean the pool area thoroughly.  It is a major project.  After removing everything from the pool deck area, I have to go around with the shop vac and sweep up as much dirt and spider webs as I can and then follow up with blasting down every square inch of both the pool deck and pool cage with the pressure washer.  Yea, it’s going to pretty much suck.   Of course there is all the normal summer maintenance to do as well.  I’d like to get a chance to go out to see Batman if possible.