Ahh, the most unlikely place for a Ghostbusters mashup: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.
As a fun challenge, see if you can make it through the first minute and twenty-seven seconds without getting annoyed by the “Ghostbuster Mobile Siren”. Tough as nails if you ask me.
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Filed by Adam College at 8:08 pm under Everything Else
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Not a big deal, but I finally got around to changing my del.icio.us username to adamjcollege from joecollege. This is part of a larger strategy of offline RSS reading and tagging, instead of using Google Reader. No particular reason for this except that I happen to like niceness of Vienna. Full featured, acts like Mail.app, and I feel more in control. And it’s Applescriptable, but more on that later.
I’ve combined Vienna with Pukka, a really neat dock app that allows quick posting to del.icio.us. It’s not free, but I’ll probably spring for a license when my free trial is up.
I’ll be changing the section of the main page that shows link snippets from Google-based to del.icio.us-based soon.
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Filed by Adam College at 11:49 am under Web
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I may be late to the game on this one, but I’m super excited about the NPR media player. I’ve long loved NPR, but my days of being in the car during Morning Edition or All Things Considered are past me (for the moment). NPR has always released the material online a few hours after air, and with RSS feeds, it’s been a snap to at least *read* about the day’s topics.
Listening was an entirely different matter: NPR provided Windows Media and Real Player formats, but Windows would get clunked down in codec hell and Real Player would hang for at least 45 seconds before each clip.
Fortunately, NPR now has a really slick web-based media player, with the critical playlist functionality. I can finally queue up some clips and go about my morning, listening to the news the way it’s meant to be heard.
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Filed by Adam College at 11:04 pm under Technology, Web
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Finally took the plunge while visiting my family in North Carolina. 
(obviously a rip from apple.com, but mine is nearly identical at this point)
Sweet. Shiny. Goodness.
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Filed by Adam College at 9:00 pm under Technology
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Just about the scariest thing ever:
It totally freaks me out, and not just the whole idea of pouring water through one nostril and having it come out the other. Actually, I’m okay with that part, because my grandfather did the same thing once with a penny and my ears. Of course I had to go to the hospital for an emergency brain cutting thingy, but I’m much better now.No, the freaky thing is the way the woman/young boy moves her neck at 27 seconds. That’s hardcore robot if ever I saw it. I’m telling you, they’ve infiltrated our society and walk among us, like Canadians. Thanks for the tip, lady friend!
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Filed by Adam College at 6:40 pm under Everything Else
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It’s time for the annual “Why the fuck did I move to Boston?” snow post!
View from my apartment!
It’s so beautiful!
The tops of buildings are all white….
Heh, poor sucker…
Trying to clean off his car…
Oh, crap. I have to do that too.
Ugh….
From the front
Finally getting the door open…
Halfway done…
After this, my hands started feeling really cold, so I stopped taking pictures. But yeah, living here is “snow” good. (I’m kicking myself for that pun.)
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Filed by Adam College at 5:24 pm under Everything Else
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Pages in wordpress don’t get added to the RSS feeds, so I thought to add a post as well for the insanely cute Uzi and his snow day:
See more pictures on the dedicated page.
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Bishop Don Magic Juan, a former pimp-turned-rap-celebrity, arrived just minutes before the ceremony ended, causing a stir as he sauntered down the aisle with an entourage of women who were scantily clad in gold and red. He held a pimp cup and wore a foot-tall crown and a blue velvet cape.The ceremony lasted almost two hours. Fans continued to remember Pimp C as they left, and the sounds of dueling UGK songs streamed out the windows of cars trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
From the Associated Press. Wonder what it was like in the press room bullpen when this story was handed out. “We need someone to cover the funeral of Pimp C. Chamillionaire will be there. Where? Er…Port Arthur, Texas. It’s only 90 minutes from Houston!”
“Not all at once people. Not all at once.”
Filed by Adam College at 10:19 pm under Media
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I absolutely love this video of the Bartered Bride Overture by Bedrich Smetana:
When they cut to the full orchestra around 1:29, I get goosebumps.
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Filed by Adam College at 5:59 pm under Everything Else
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Perri got me an ice cream maker for Hannukah - she said that after I opened the present, it was the hardest I’ve ever hugged her and that I had an expression of absolutely pure joy.
While waiting for the drum to freeze, I’ve been looking up recipes for my first batch of homemade ice cream. Some of them are good, some of them not-so-good, and then there are the purely hideous:
“DOUBLE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM”
1. Chocolate cream
2. Milk
3. Salt
4. At least 3 bags of ice
5. A pack of Oreo cookies
6. If you have one, an ice cream maker
7. If you don’t have one, then you can’t make itFirst you take the ice cream maker, and turn it on. Then you put the ice in there (the ice cream maker) and put the salt in. After you put the salt in there you let it go for awhile. And you have to watch it for awhile. Wait and watch it. Then you put the cream in and let it go for awhile. Then you put the cookies in (Mom accidentally made this by using too many cookies.) Okay, wait and watch it. Then put it in the freezer for a few days and after those few days are over you can serve it. Now you’ve got double chocolate ice cream!
Simply astounding. No portions, horrible directions. Presenting this recipe is the only known way to kill Martha Stewart.
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