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[kyburg]

I have the most amazing machine to do housework tonight. I can use it to do both the kitchen floors and the rest of the carpeting in the house, and it moonlights as an aromatherapy ionizer.

Want one? ASK ME HOW! (No kidding - poetpaladin reps for the company. I thought I was doing him a favor - he actually did me one!)

It could do some of the dusting, but I think I'll retain the Pledge and dustrag for that.

Hee. Almost as good as cleaning the litterbox.

Things I'm never going to do to my dog.

And beetiger has taken over a nifty webstore - Mother's Hearth and doesn't it look like it would be fun - make your own incense, and if that doesn't thrill you, they rep for Shoyeido incense - how can you lose?

Oh, just for kicks and giggles:



Where the EFF is the cigarette?!

It also has some of the strangest copy protection I've ever seen - anyone got a tried-and-true mp3 ripper they'd like to test out? Put it in the CD-ROM drive and it goes to the website - period. Can't play it, and can only see the tracks inside the ripper - but it won't rip. Uh uh.

Where can I play it? On the combo player in the living room.

But if anyone thinks you're going to fall asleep listening to this one, I'll make book you won't. And I'll win. I woke the dead with it this morning.

Going to go play with my new - whatever. See ya!

Comments

[lordindra.livejournal.com]

Turn off autoplay, or hold down the shift key(or maybe it was the space bar) when you insert the CD. You might have to go and uninstall something through add/remove programs.

If you use a mac or a linux box I have no idea how to disable CD copy protection

[exedore.livejournal.com]

I think it's too late for her to use that trick - the software's installed itself and hides rather than making itself uninstallable. But yes, in the future, keep autorun off on your CD drives.

If you *really* need it ripped, mail me the disc and I'll make mp3s for you.

[ecstaticlght.livejournal.com]

Yippeee.. if Carl Neal says beetiger is good then the store is going to be continuing on in a tradition of a really nice man that is a lovely person to speak with. We've had the pleasure here of getting to meet him and hear him talk about incense and learn his passion. Carl is becoming a fixture in Oklahoma and we are very very happy to have him :)

*makes note to order some Paolo before Halloween*

[mdlbear]

If the copy protection works by installing software on your box, it's very unlikely to work on Mac or Linux. Especially if you're not so stupid as to log in as root to play CDs.

[diepunyhuman.livejournal.com]

at the copa... copacabanaaaa

Oh dear, that'll be stuck in my head forever now, thanks. :P

[poetpaladin.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I didn't expect you to buy. You were just doing me a favor by letting me do a demo.

But I'm glad you like it. Really. :)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I don't think so - the only thing you can see on the disk when looking at it is the html file to point to the website.

I've already called the record company and bitched. Good grief.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

A 2005 mix. Gimme the original - it's good, but it's long and jingle-jangly.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I ripped it with Winamp-Pro with absolutely no problem.

Did you hold down the shift keys when you put the cd in? That's supposed to stop any weirdness the disc wants to start. (Actually, it's only one shift key, but I can't remember which, so I do both. Which is easier than looking it up every time. :)

Will not go off on a rant about buying the damn thing and being able to play it wherever the hell I *want* to, dammit!

Gessi...well, okay, but just a tiny one.;)

[mdlbear]

The other possibility is that it's a 2-session disk (CD Extra) with a shortened TOC in the second (data) section. There are some drives, notably Plexstor, that will let you pick which session to believe (provided you have the right drivers).

By all means complain -- the disk is, basically, defective; most people expect to be able to play their music on any standards-compliant device.

[poetpaladin.livejournal.com]

Oh, get this. Saturday I totally killed a Tri-Star. That's a $2000 vaccuum. I even let the guy put in brand NEW paper bag and let him vaccuum the demo area.

But of course, it was a bag. Afterwards, I used to rainbow to pull stuff out again and again out of his carpet. :)