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Comment on I Now Have a Personal Theme Song! by Nostalgic Rumblings » My New Shirt Playes My Theme Song!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:44:26 +0000

[…] I added my theme song (written and performed by Jill Sobule), and now I literally can play my theme song as I enter a room, accompanied by tumultuous applause. […]

Comment on Studio X - Frozen Justice by The Black Hood

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:54:31 +0000

Having watched and heard The Millionaire on TV, Paul Frees pronounced the name as
John Ber-es-ford (3 syllables), not John Bersford (2 syllables) as you did here.
Other than that, great intro and bio and thanks for the program.

Comment on I hate January 2nd… by Nostalgic Rumblings » Reverse-Whining

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:35:00 +0000

[…] I spend a whole lot of time on this blog whining about things that disappoint me…and it seems as one grows older, one is less tolerant of disappointment. But not everything in my life is a bother…some things make me actually smile, or pleasantly surprise me, and I don’t blog about those things nearly often enough. In the spirit of the most wonderful holiday season which I simply cannot let go, I’ve collected a few of them here, after the jump. […]

Comment on I Now Have a Personal Theme Song! by Eastpointe Tim

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:04:38 +0000

Charlie,Very nice, Jill did do a great job; she is quite the talent.If I had a theme song I’d want it jazz oriented and perhaps sung by Kay Starr. I guess that’s not going to happen.

Comment on NBC - The Biggest Loser by voxpop78

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:32:55 +0000

Can’t help but wonder what Comcast is thinking about their new deal to buy NBC..

Comment on Don’t Cry for Me, Downtown Burbank by voxpop78

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:30:38 +0000

YES! That’s what I’ve been saying since this whole thing started. Jimmy Kimmel tore Leno apart. Not Leno’s fault..of course it’s NBC’S stupidity. I’m not even a fan of Leno but I sat in front of my TV with a quizzical look on my face wondering why they were skewering him.

Comment on Don’t Cry for Me, Downtown Burbank by voxpop78

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:28:58 +0000

YES! That’s what I’ve been saying since this whole thing started. Jimmy Kimmel tore Leno apart. Not Leno’s his fault..of course it’s NBC’S stupidity. I’m not even a fan of Leno but I sat in front of my TV with a quizzical look on my face wondering why they were skewering him.

Comment on I Now Have a Personal Theme Song! by Russ G.

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:11:00 +0000

Oh my gosh!!! Is that PERFECT OR WHAT!!!!!

I am in awe. I am all but speechless! I can only say how impressed I am!

Comment on Some comments on The Tonight Show kerfuffle… by Nostalgic Rumblings » Don’t Cry for Me, Downtown Burbank

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:24:38 +0000

[…] Indeed, Leno acted (as I mentioned in a previous post) as a lame duck for five years, and still maintained the number-one position in late night, something O’Brien couldn’t maintain. Blaming Leno for this disaster is foolhardy…blame the morons at NBC instead. […]

Comment on Reserve NOW for the 2010 FOTR Convention by larry

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:52:20 +0000

One would hope that they would do a better job of keeping the bathrooms clean. They were a disgrace at the 2009 convention.

Comment on We lost our little buddy this morning… by Nostalgic Rumblings » We have an unexpected new family member…

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:45:54 +0000

[…] While certainly not a replacement for our late little buddy J.B., this little guy is sorta cute in his own furry little way, and already he and Katie have become thick as thieves…she scritches, he purrs, and all seems to be right with the world for both of them. […]

Comment on Review: SanDisk Sansa Fuze by bspro

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Hi Charlie, I have used rockbox for a long time on an Archos Jukebox and have loved it. Now if I just knew how to write playlists. haha. I like your reasoning for using the models of players with cards, but haven’t seen anything that is as efficient as the ones with built in hard drives. I won’t go the Ipod route either for the same reasons you mention although I’m told you could put Rockbox on one of those too. I too just want my player to just show up as an external drive. Control freak? Nah, just anal. To quote Frank “I did it Myyyyyyy Waaaaaay!”

Comment on Another SanDisk Fuze, and Mostly Success! by Charlie Summers

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:25:49 +0000

A question was posed on the Digest looking for an MP3 player with true auto-resume. Any player that can handle Rockbox can do this…when you shut down the player in the middle of a song, on restart the “Now playing” menu item changes to “Resume Playback” (check out the graphic I put together for this article to see it), starting the previously-playing program at the point of stopping.

But with bookmarks, Rockbox goes somewhat farther than that, albeit on the playlist level and not the file level…Rockbox can be set up to allow for multiple bookmarks per file (again, listed within the playlist, so multiple files’ bookmarks are all gathered together), and can even be set up to auto-create a bookmark any time you stop playing a file. For OTR, this is exactly what the doctor ordered, although it takes a while to slog through the manual for your player model to figure out how all those bookmark settings need to be set up to do this automatically…

Comment on Another SanDisk Fuze, and Mostly Success! by Charlie Summers

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:06:16 +0000

In looking up something else, I discovered thanks to the Rockbox forums that if one holds the Select button down (the one in the middle of the scrollwheel) while plugging in the power cable, the unit does not auto-boot the Sansa firmware and continues in Rockbox. Pretty nifty, that, and removes the last impediment to using the unit in the car…ok, other than my having to buy a bunch of microSDHC cards and copy the recorded music to them…

If I find out any other interesting tidbits of information on the Fuze, I’ll post them here hoping that others might benefit in future web searches.

Comment on Review: SanDisk Sansa Fuze by Nostalgic Rumblings » Another SanDisk Fuze, and Mostly Success!

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:03 +0000

[…] So why buy another copy of the exact same player? Well, if you check the comments in my review of the first 2G Fuze, you’ll find from ilamfan a suggestion I look at Rockbox, a free (as in beer and as in speech) replacement firmware for many MP3 players, including the V1 Fuze. I got a really good deal on a reconditioned 2G Fuze at an Internet store (which, for whatever it’s worth, came in looking every bit as shiny and “new” as the first one I purchased, complete with SanDisk earbuds and a charging cable). I figure, if I brick it with Rockbox, I’m not out much cash, and no warranty to speak of…I admit I did get lucky and receive a V1 unit (the software for V1 is “Unstable,” where the software for V2 is “Unusuable”), but I figured my odds were pretty good since the V2 units are relatively new and wouldn’t be in the refurbished bin in the quantities the V1 units would be. I am leaving the original Fuze untouched, so even if this one blows up, I still have something to use to listen to The Bob Edwards Show on my morning walks, even if it is kinda worthless for the intended use in the car. […]

Comment on OTR Sighting from the Mailbag… by IreneTH

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:28:51 +0000

Cliff Carpenter?? What a good bit that was. Was that his first appearance? Will there be more? Should we all write The Daily Show praising him? Thanks for that.

Comment on OTR Sighting from the Mailbag… by Charlie Summers

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:29:02 +0000

pkeiser Says:

Okay, Charlie, I give up! Who is it?

Check out the photos here. (And no, it isn’t Fred Berney or Gary Yoggy… ;)

Comment on OTR Sighting from the Mailbag… by pkeiser

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:30:32 +0000

Okay, Charlie, I give up! Who is it?

Paula Keiser

Comment on AVG Even MORE Annoying? by voxpop

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:48:17 +0000

I’ve used AVAST in the past with no problems and no virii..at present I’m using MSE; Microsoft Security Essentials and so far so good.

Comment on 2009 FOTR Convention; Still More Photos by Charlie Summers

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:09:48 +0000

Wich2 Says:

Win?

I have never before heard, from anyone else on either side of the age mark, the issue framed as a battle of any kind.

(*sigh*) You have intentionally misintepreted me to muddy the discussion. We are having a debate, and yes, there is a “win” and “lose” in most debates. In this case, the “win” is inevitable, which is all that I meant. But you know that, and simply use a reference to a battle as a smokescreen.

I HAVE heard, from folks such as Arthur Anderson, Cliff Carpenter, and several other Vets, expessions to the effect of, “I am very glad that there are folks like you who want this to go on after we are gone…” (which is about how dear departed Hal Stone phrased it to me.)

They are welcomed to feel that way; it has nothing whatsoever to do with the discussion at hand, other than to encourage you personally, which I assume was the point.

This discussion has, I believe, gone on long enough. You have made your position clear, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t been ambivalent, either. Let us move on to other more important things now, before we completely alienate everyone reading this (assuming anyone is sticking around in the first place).