Hopstretch

From what I've read, the entire world is pretty much "just outside it." Bill Bryson -- who is by default right about everything -- mentions in passing that it took the human population of the planet about 20,000 years to recover from the volcanic winter following the last super-eruption* in 73,000 BC or so. * Fnarr fnarr.

Mojave 3 -- Out Of Tune

Also, purged every bit (tee hee) of lossy music from my iTunes library. I feel so ... virginal.

Four tickets to South Africa. Oh, that hurt. Although probably not as much as the actual 18-1/2 hour flight will with a three- and four-year-old.

Posted in the wrong thread! D'oh.

Boards Of Canada -- The Campfire Headphase

Thor can handle things on his own.

Prodigy -- Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Welcome. And it certainly was to me. Thanks.

Nice! You have a very thick, manly ... cord.

I did have a look there and there is one for ripping to MP3 and autoloading onto an iPod, but it doesn't quite repurpose if you want to move the files to CD instead.

Thanks Dusty! And there I was contemplating having to fart around with Applescript.

Happy happy joy joy!

I'm stumped here and hoping someone else may have faced this issue before and solved it already. I'd like to burn some MP3 CDs for my wife's car so she can just put the changer on shuffle and have a decent amount of music on tap. (No, sadly it doesn't have an aux in.) Since I now keep my music in iTunes in lossless format, though, I haven't yet figured out a simple way to convert and burn a large playlist without subsequently ending up with loads of duplicate files needing to be purged from my library. Any thoughts?

R.E.M. -- And I Feel Fine: The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987

For most of the day today I thought I'd managed to lose my iPhone. Also thought I was going to cry. Scary to think how much of my life is in this thing.

"What's in the box? What's in the fucking boooooooox?"

Prefer deliberate douchebaggery to unconscious douchebaggery.

Talk Talk -- The Colour Of Spring

Maybe this should be in Tyll's baloon animal thread?

Open it up!

Veering a bit off-topic here, but it looks like the Mini is about to be updated by Apple and the word (such as it is) is that the new version will probably not have FireWire any more.

Does it have a discrete "Meatball" setting?

Little neighborhood tradition, on New Years Day the guys on our street go down to The Chicken Bone en masse and treat hangovers with buckets of nuclear hot wings, pitchers of Newkie Brown and many, many games of darts. Was a good time, though I think my stomach will not be thanking me.

Queen -- The Game