Found a box of sharp objects
March 16th, 2005 | Published in oh hell
FedEx was much more timely about delivering packages than UPS has been. The DLO TransPod FM transmitter I ordered the other day arrived this morning and I promptly tested it out.
Pros:
- Digital tuner, so you can pick any frequency between 88 MHz and 108 MHz.
- It comes with a bunch of different mounting parts so if the standard car lighter adapter doesn’t work, you can go all Lego-mania and change it.
- It’s got power — it will completely overwhelm any radio station.
Cons:
- No hold/lock button. I already changed the frequency on accident several times this afternoon.
- Flattens the sound terribly. Fiddling with the equalizer on both my radio and the iPod didn’t really improve things.
- Volume on the radio needs to be cranked way up, so you need to be careful if you change the station.
So far I’m still happy with the purchase though. It’s still nicer than the analog tuner I had previously and it’s nice to have it mounted in a decent location so I don’t need to fumble for it while driving.
This afternoon I was cleaning up the place and ended up ripping and watching Seether’s music video for Fine Again, which I hadn’t seen before. I thought it was pretty cool, mostly because of the people holding placards with various “personal” messages on them. Also ripped 20 - 30 CDs that have been sitting at home. It used to be rather painful to rip CDs with the 24x drive on my laptop, but now that I have a 52x drive in my desktop, it takes almost no time at all.
Ended up hearing from Dartmouth today, and it looks like I won’t be going there next year. Rather disappointing because I know a bunch of the faculty, staff, and students there and would have been more than happy to live in the Hanover area. I’m still waiting to hear back from two more schools, but I have no chance whatsoever of being accepted to Berkeley. I’m still holding a little hope that I might get into JHU, but that’s also a longshot.
Anyone know of some decent apartments in the Potsdam area?
Update: while I’m thinking about it, does anyone know of any decent frameworks or tools for building webapps with PHP? There are a bunch of little dynamic things I’d like to do, but I’m too lazy to implement most of them from scratch. Ideally I’d use Zope (*gasp*) or Struts, but my hosting plan doesn’t include servlet/JSP support (oh how I wish I had a box in a colo facility).
