Revenge of Grumpy Bear

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Okay. Karen and I just took the iPod plunge tonight. She, she music lover with hundreds of CDs, got the 30GB one. Me, not really a music lover at all but interested in books on tape for my morning and evening walk to/from work, got a Shuffle. Karen is configuring her iPod now on her PC.

And mine doesn't work. I plug the USB connector into my PowerBook, and nothing happens except that the orange light comes on the Shuffle. That's it. No installation wizard. iTunes doesn't see it, even after installing the newest version and the iPod updater etc. etc. It doesn't even show up at all in Apple System Profiler--the USB port swears nothing is attached--and I 0ther USB devices work fine. Karen's PC doesn't recognize it either.

She called this ironic.

[EDIT: Okay, okay. So, the orange light? Battery charging. I left it plugged in for like 10 minutes, and the computer finally realized it existed. So it seems to be working fine now.]

[EDIT 2: So I left it charging overnight, and when I unplugged it in the morning...nothing. As soon as I unplugged it, the orange light went out and stayed out (until I plugged it in again). It's completely unresponsive unless it's plugged in, and even then I have no idea if it plays music at all, since it's only got the one plug for both power and headphones. So, Karen's taking it in today.]

[stacer]

Yes everyone wants a say in the concepts because that's the fun part. It doesn't mean that those who will actually be making the artwork want to be your slave to make all your visions a reality. Learn to paint your own visions and not make someone else spend days doing it.

Better not ever go into illustration, then. That's all about matching the vision of the publisher, especially covers.

[Chimera]

I spent valuable time yesterday *cough cough* arranging my favorites in Internet Explorer, only to find today that many of them have migrated to new and unusual spots on the list. What is up? Why didn't they stay where I put them? If I rearrange them, are they just going to move again?

Or is someone messing with my computer?!?

[The Lost One]

Stop snowing! I'm tired of snow. I'm shovelling snow like it's my part-time job. I moved to Denver to get away from winters like this. Stop snowing! It's soo cold, so very cold...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

* SaintEhlers points and laughs.

We had about half an hour of snow on... uh.. Tuesday last week. It was gone just as quickly. Today, it's supposed to reach the 60s. God bless the South.

[42]

42 throws a snowball as SE.

[Tink]

This morning it was -4 degrees Fahrenheit. I've never been in negative temperatures before (I don't think). I HATE the cold.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

while I hate the cold, a little bit of it would be nice. Its was 77 here today.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

77 is even better!
*moves further south*

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

you always could!

[Harbinger]

Until you reach the South Pole. Then you can only go north. And you're really cold, which seems to defeat the purpose of moving south.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I think he actually meant further south, ie closer to where he lives.

[Spriggan]

It was colder in Utah county yesterday then it was in most parts of Alaska.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Yup. I compared the temp here with where I used to live (near Fairbanks), and when it came to coldest place, my local temp won.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well. Winter came in a day. at 11:30pm on Monday, it was 67. the next morning it had dropped to 53.  Still pleasant. By the end of the day yesterday it was 34. This morning it was 23.

I hates winter.