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ipod content
Feb. 1st, 2006 07:12 pm.
Like I needed any help filling my iPod.
A friend pointed me to a program called handbrake (actually, he pointed me to this how-to page that then references the program), and since then I've been successfully ripping DVDs into the mpeg4 format that plays on the pod. So since I'd already made Lemonade Joe (Limonadovy Joe) into a DVD from the VHS tape, I proceeded to convert that first. Now my drive is clogged with that, plus Wizard of Oz, J-Men Forever, Forbidden Zone, Adventures of Robin Hood, and selected short subjects.
The selected short subjects came from archive.com, which has a lot of short films. Longer ones too, I suppose. I got a couple of Betty Boop cartoons, a Popeye or two, one of the silent Tom & Jerrys and a bit of miscellany. Did you know they have risque stuff? Yeah, old stag reels of fairly tame stripper acts. Hot-cha-cha! At least, that's what the title cards assure me. I recognized one of them from an old HBO special -- Georgia Sothern, "The World's Fastest Stripper." She really keeps moving, but the overall effect is kind of weird. At the time I first heard of her, Cathy was working at, and I was attending, Georgia Southern College (now University), so her name stayed in my mind.
Anyway, I hear my family returning from Sarah's dance class. Life has been fairly quiet and normal lately; not much to report. Her birthday is coming up in a week. I gave her a bath last night and observed that whenever I touched her there seemed to be a general rule: If it didn't tickle, it hurt; if it didn't hurt, it tickled. Nothing in between.
In addition to burning movies for the pod (I'm doing Young Frankenstein now, and then maybe I'll be satisfied), I'm also striving to get as much other stuff off there as I can stand. I've taken off albums I didn't listen to much or at all (of course, I've left on albums I listen to just as seldom), and I've been diligently weeding photos to make room. They're already backed up anyway, so it's not like I'm really throwing anything out -- just taking them out of the directory that gets mirrored onto the iPod. It seems almost like pictures take up more space when they're converted to the format for that little screen than they do on my computer, but I hope I'm wrong about that.
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Like I needed any help filling my iPod.
A friend pointed me to a program called handbrake (actually, he pointed me to this how-to page that then references the program), and since then I've been successfully ripping DVDs into the mpeg4 format that plays on the pod. So since I'd already made Lemonade Joe (Limonadovy Joe) into a DVD from the VHS tape, I proceeded to convert that first. Now my drive is clogged with that, plus Wizard of Oz, J-Men Forever, Forbidden Zone, Adventures of Robin Hood, and selected short subjects.
The selected short subjects came from archive.com, which has a lot of short films. Longer ones too, I suppose. I got a couple of Betty Boop cartoons, a Popeye or two, one of the silent Tom & Jerrys and a bit of miscellany. Did you know they have risque stuff? Yeah, old stag reels of fairly tame stripper acts. Hot-cha-cha! At least, that's what the title cards assure me. I recognized one of them from an old HBO special -- Georgia Sothern, "The World's Fastest Stripper." She really keeps moving, but the overall effect is kind of weird. At the time I first heard of her, Cathy was working at, and I was attending, Georgia Southern College (now University), so her name stayed in my mind.
Anyway, I hear my family returning from Sarah's dance class. Life has been fairly quiet and normal lately; not much to report. Her birthday is coming up in a week. I gave her a bath last night and observed that whenever I touched her there seemed to be a general rule: If it didn't tickle, it hurt; if it didn't hurt, it tickled. Nothing in between.
In addition to burning movies for the pod (I'm doing Young Frankenstein now, and then maybe I'll be satisfied), I'm also striving to get as much other stuff off there as I can stand. I've taken off albums I didn't listen to much or at all (of course, I've left on albums I listen to just as seldom), and I've been diligently weeding photos to make room. They're already backed up anyway, so it's not like I'm really throwing anything out -- just taking them out of the directory that gets mirrored onto the iPod. It seems almost like pictures take up more space when they're converted to the format for that little screen than they do on my computer, but I hope I'm wrong about that.
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