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I’ve had the Griffin iTrip Auto FM Transmitter and Auto Charger for iPod for a little while and I really really like it. I did have to send the first one back (only bummer), but overall it is just right for my vPod.

Kills all kinds of birds: Before this combo unit, I used to have to plug in a power cord to the bottom of my iPod to charge it, and then an iTrip (last generation) to the top of the iPod to play tunes through my car stereo. This design solves all of that. One plug into the dock and I get FM transmission plus power. It makes a huge difference - I can take the headphones off my ear, plop the Pod on the passenger seat or wherever, and pick up right where I left off. A nice touch is that when the car is started or stopped, the Pod goes into pause mode, saving battery life. Either way, when I get to the gym, it’s freshly charged and ready to go. That’s key, since video massively drains the battery on the video iPod.

Good sound: Curiously, the #2 unit that I got sounds better than #1 (the one I sent back), which was a little too soft. Unlike the last generation of iTrips, this one doesn’t force you to mess with the iPod’s volume when you plug it in. Dock-based output doesn’t rely on the volume off of the iPod. Another time saver. Unit #2 does not pick up stray signals. Unit #1 did (maybe this is just my flukiness, just reporting what I found), so I’d be on the freeway and hear gospel in the next car over. No fair to Paris Hilton!

The first unit saga: This was not a huge deal. After about 3 weeks and a lovely trip from Miami to Orlando in a rental car with my friend Daniel where this thing saved the day,

Continue reading Review: Griffin iTrip Auto FM Transmitter and Auto Charger for iPod…

It’s here, wish you were beautiful…

Congratulations to the folks at Destination Daniel - you made the BIG TIME!

towleroad: I Wish I Knew How to Lego of You

“Tonight I’m Yours” is one of those “you had to be listening to MTV a lot when you were younger to remember this song.” I ended up at the gym during an off time when someone had switched the music feed to the “obscure MTV hits” channel, and so there I go downloading it. Someone has to get Apple to 1 Billion songs!

So, cupcakes have made it to Seattle as the sort of in thing. I know, it’s been big everywhere else for like 20 years or so. Everyone knows that the cake is just a delivery mechanism for the sugar filled frosting, which probably has beef tallow in it to make you want to buy more.

I suppose we need to eat something new, now that we’ve discovered that the cinnamon chip scone at Starbuck’s has 510 calories and 25 grams of fat.

is, “Unwritten,” by Natasha Bedingfield. It’s the studio version. Hopefully the mix version will debut on iTunes at some point. Click here to go to the iTunes music store to get it.

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The first blog to pick this up. Brokeback Mountain. In Lego. Look at that realism. We’ve seen Ken dolls, we’ve seen diaromas, we’ve seen Sims. This is different. It’s Lego.

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In case you don’t watch Best Week Ever. (And why don’t you?)
YouTube - Tom Cruise on Oprah - As It Should’ve Been

Epidemiology of Gastroenteritis on Cruise Ships, 2001-2004
by Elaine H.Cramer, MD, MPH, Curtis J.Blanton, MS, Lenee H.Blanton, MPH, George H.Vaughan Jr, MPH, Cheryl A.Bopp, MS, David L.Forney
American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Vol. 30, Issue 3)

Up from 2 cases per cruise to 3 cases per cruise.

“You could have diarrhea by Tuesday, don’t wait to have fun” - TomP
American Journal of Preventive Medicine

And they’re even now going to carry Fox News and Sports. Yeah.

Just don’t shut of XM yet, I have a few more months left in my subscription, thanks!
Sirius loss mounts in satellite radio battle with XM

While we’re waiting for me to compile all of the photos and movies from the Atlantis Navigator cruise (check here in about a week), I am starting the “cruise etiquette” discussion.

This is a list of tips from me and the rest of you on things that you can do to make everyone’s cruise enjoyable. Not just your cruise, but everyone’s cruise. We’re all in this together.

Please add your ideas as comments. Keep it sort of clean, also. Nothing illegal. Immoral is okay depending on the culture you use as a reference point.

My first

1. “Cruise cards” - those business cards you print that have your contact info and cabin on them. Do prepare them. Do include your picture on them (I am not following my own advice, I know). Do include your cabin number. Don’t hand them out indiscriminately to everyone you meet right off the bat. Get to know someone, then offer him your card to keep in touch after.

Ok, your turn!

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