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This shot was taken 10,000ft up above Lake Garnet in the Ansel Adam’s Wilderness. Left to Right: Luke, Dan, Zach, & Adam. See more photos.

In case anyone cares, iSkin makes good iPod cases, if you want the silicone type. They have a pretty neat screen cover design where you can actually see the screen (wow, who’d uh thunk). So obvious, yet impressive after trying a different brand with a thin plastic screen cover that sticks to the screen and does that bubbly half-stuck half-not filmy can’t-see-through-it thing.

Also rediscovered the fatal flaw of iTunes/iPod, and I think very MP3 player that exists so far - gapping between tracks. Live concert albums, Dark Side of the Moon, classical music, the first track on Get a Grip, and anything else where you want a smooth transition get totally ruined. Since almost half my music is live stuff, that’s a big bummer. Apple, fix that junk. Yeah, I know I could rip the CD as one track, but that’s just retarded.

Dear friends, When I’m taking a video on my digital camera, and you say, “Are you videoing this?” a mysterious voice ends up on the video saying, “Are you videoing this?” Also, “videoing” is not a word.

I want to get an iPod. I want to listen in my car. I don’t have a tape player. Those radio adapters don’t work. There are kits to connect the iPod to the CD changer ports on factory stereos. Pretty cool, but they cost too much.

• Peripheral Electronics’ iPod2car
• Monster’s iCruze
• Dension’s ice>Link:Plus

I found iPod Install in 2001 Honda Civic on “Ben’s Weblog.” Nice. And cheaper. I don’t need to control the iPod from the stereo. Just need to get the sound in. Sweet.

• Peripheral Electronics’ Aux2car
• P.I.E DPX Aux Input Converter (I think this is the one that Ben’s Weblog used)

After all that, I find Apple’s page. Great. I swear I looked earlier and they didn’t have anything.

(p.s. The Andy Milonakis Show seemed promising, but it might suck instead.)

Update (2006-08-10): Huh… Looks like I never wrote what I actually ended up getting. I got the Blitzsafe “HON/M-Link1 DMX V.1 1998-2005″ Honda-to-iPOD® Interface from Logjam Electronics. It works great—just like listening to the factory CD player. And super easy to install—it plugs right in to the factory player’s CD changer jack.

To answer Luke’s question of the week (Who bites people?) let me first begin with a bit background to familiarize the unknowing ChopStork user with our friendly Bustling Bunselmeyer (aka Buns, Lukie Buns, and Lukie Buns of Steel Buns). Luke, as some may suspect, has a tendency to overindulge in tasty treats from time to time… Unfortunately for all parties involved, he overstepped his boundaries one drunken evening by biting into a pretzel that I’d preserved for future enjoyment. What seemed the only reasonable response to such an assault was to quickly retaliate by biting into something precious of Luke’s. Preserved foods being sparse by this late hour, the only reasonable biting grounds were limited to the Buns himself, the shoulder being the obvious selection. So as the story goes, Rebecca Attacks Again…but I’ll let you, the ChopStork audience, decide for yourselves. Attack or retaliation? Truly, a reaction of this nature should not be misconstrued by any Buns’ verbiage that would attempt to lead you towards unsound understanding of the situation.

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