First day of class, Paul Yath, and MX Skype Recorder
Today was my first day of class. Last spring I took Comp 1 at Century with Corey Quick and it was a ton of fun. So I decided to take Comp 2 this spring with the same teacher. And so far I’m off to a bad writing start. I haven’t been to inspired to write lately. I’m still working on that MP3 problem. Ish.
Seth has really been rocking the yoyotwo blog hard. Today he posted some pictures of a Delrin SPR yo-yo from Paul Yath. And not only the yo-yo, but Paul is also introducing two new friction pad technologies. How awesome is that?
The biggest frustration to me right now, however, is MX Skype Recorder. This used to be a great program for recording Skype calls and I used it often for recording the Yo-Yo Wiki podcast. Yesterday when I opened up the program to record the 9th episode of the podcast I got a pop-up window happily saying “there is a new version available, would you like to download it?” And so foolishly I followed the link and downloaded the new version thinking I might get a better quality or something like that, but quickly after installing the new version I found that the only new thing with the new version was that you had to pay fifteen dollars to active it, and if you didn’t activate it you could only record for five minutes…. but the biggest problem was that I didn’t find out about the five minute limitation until we were almost done with half hour podcast! I would have gladly donated 15 dollars to the maker of the program if there was a splash screen or something asking for a donation, but with this new version he effing hosed me and he is making The List. The List is a brand new thing, I hope you enjoy it.
-Josh
ZOMBIE ORVILLE REDENBACHER NEEDS TO DIE!!!
This composite of live actors and computer wizardry created this horrible Zombie Orville. Digg it up so that they’ll know that it’s overly creepy.
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Wisconsin State Yo-Yo Championship 2007 Results and Pictures
Single A Division
1st Alex Berenguel 275
2nd Juneau Motzko 243
3rd Alex Willden 231
4th John Narum 222
5th Nate Shurilla 198
6th Brad Deyoung 191
7th Dylan Kowalski 180
8th Brandon Cormier 177
9th Kevin Gretch 167
10th Dave Poyzer 161
11th Arianna Cormier 149
12th Ian Johnson 131
13th John W Robot 130
14th Mark 116
15th Eric 113
16th Daniel Ikler 107
17th Ryan 77
Open Division 
1st Juneau Motzko 243
2nd Alex Willden 214
3rd John Narum 203
4th Ian Johnson 187
5th Dave Poyzer 158
6th Dylan Kowalski 119
7th Cole 56
8th Eric 51
Ladder Division
1st John Domanski
2nd Chris Larson
3rd James Buffington
4th Terry Ulmer
5th Gabe Sasman
6th Gannon Sasman
It was a fantastic contest. A big congratulations to everyone who competed. I’m missing a few last names, so if you can help with that just let me know. Be sure to check out the rest of the pictures by clicking here.
-Josh
The great MP3 loss of 2006
A few months ago I was playing around with Linux and really f’d up my desktop. Seriously. I ended up losing all the data on my hard drives and crying myself to sleep for weeks. I managed to run a disk recovery program and recover my mp3 collection minus all the id3 tags, and I thought that was good enough. I have been trying, very slowly, to re-tag all the files using The Godfather and Id3TagIt. Well today I went looking for some specific music to try and get it onto my iPod and I found the files that I was looking for and I got the tags all perfected and then I gave it a listen, this was the first time I had actually tried to listen to any of these mp3s since the meltdown, and I discovered that all of the file names that I recovered were nothing but BS and my computer was lying to me. The file I was trying to play was the Common Place and what it turned out to be was a track out of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. So I dug a little deeper and tried to play other files, some just didn’t play at all and some were straight up the wrong song, I’ve got songs titled as Ted Leo playing Radiohead songs and there is just no end to the confusion in my collection. I think I’ve got to nuke it, up until today I was holding out hope that I might be able to recover it all but now I can see that there is no chance of that. Can you image re-ripping a ten thousand track mp3 collection? I think I’m going to be sick.
-Josh
Feed the Hand’ll Bite You
Like I said, here is a picture of the new t-shirts! No two are alike and they are all fantastic! I look forward to seeing you at Madfest!
-Josh
New pictures on the photo site
This weekend is Madfest, and I’ll be there. I’m rolling out in my ride on Friday afternoon with Kevin Gretch, John Russeth (the consumate traveling partner) and Matt Schmidtway (the ghost). John and I have a new tshirt that is in the making. I’ll probably post pictures of that tonight.
Abe was at the Indiana State contest with me and he was rocking his digital camera, probably more than I was. He ended up getting much better pictures than I did so I rangled them up and put them on my photo site. Click here to check them out.
The Yo-Yo Wiki Contest is still going strong and the 8th episode of the Yo-Yo Wiki Podcast goes live today. You can click here for that.
I just got an invitation to the Venice Project which is the new program from the guys who made Skype. The goal of the Venice Project is the refine the way videos stream over the internet to better enable TV over IP. It sounds pretty cool, but so far all that I have learned from being in the beta is that the program will NOT run on my old laptop. Oh well, I gots other computers around here somewhere.
-Josh