Comments on: Problem solving in true form http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/ All things Mike McGranahan. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-253 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 04:44:56 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-253 [Whistles.] That's one sweet beauty of a thang. Reckon' it would be perfect with one of these gizmos: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-mp3-players (see number 3) [Whistles.]

That’s one sweet beauty of a thang. Reckon’ it would be perfect with one of these gizmos:

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-mp3-players

(see number 3)

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Natalie http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-252 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:57:07 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-252 Aww!!!!!! I think this guy beat both of us in the "cool alarm clock" competition: http://www.mavrinac.com/projects/nesclock/ Aww!!!!!!

I think this guy beat both of us in the “cool alarm clock” competition:

http://www.mavrinac.com/projects/nesclock/

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-194 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:05:33 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-194 I know. What am I thinking? I know. What am I thinking?

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: marcus http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-193 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:29:25 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-193 all of this to wake up? waking up is so overrated! all of this to wake up? waking up is so overrated!

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-188 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:54:45 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-188 Man I love those drawings. I remember looking at them in the cartoon book you had when Shaun and I were growing up. Ever since then, I've clung tenaciously to the single, irrepressible goal of building my own Rube-Goldberg device! Mwahahaha! I'm almost there! All I need is a boot, a chicken, an elbow joint pipe, 25 one-pound iron balls, 6 feet of rope, 10 cubic feet of helium, and a dragon's toenail. Man I love those drawings. I remember looking at them in the cartoon book you had when Shaun and I were growing up. Ever since then, I’ve clung tenaciously to the single, irrepressible goal of building my own Rube-Goldberg device! Mwahahaha! I’m almost there! All I need is a boot, a chicken, an elbow joint pipe, 25 one-pound iron balls, 6 feet of rope, 10 cubic feet of helium, and a dragon’s toenail.

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Tom http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-187 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:14:59 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-187 Nice solution to the long standing problems of the alarm clock. Have you considered submitting some of your creations to the Rube Goldberg web site? http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/mail%20a%20letter.htm Nice solution to the long standing problems of the alarm clock. Have you considered submitting some of your creations to the Rube Goldberg web site?
http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/mail%20a%20letter.htm

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-186 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:33:14 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-186 First, I'm allergic to fish!! Who's stupid now?! Second, wrong link. Sorry! I'm only human, your highness. http://cgi.ebay.ca/SONY-DREAM-MACHINE-CASSETTE-PLAYER-ICF-CS650-NIB_W0QQitemZ5847045449QQcategoryZ50595QQcmdZViewItem First, I’m allergic to fish!! Who’s stupid now?!

Second, wrong link. Sorry! I’m only human, your highness. http://cgi.ebay.ca/SONY-DREAM-MACHINE-CASSETTE-PLAYER-ICF-CS650-NIB_W0QQitemZ5847045449QQcategoryZ50595QQcmdZViewItem

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-185 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:31:24 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-185 Furthermore! My Dream Machine is seeing extended use in the bathroom, where it plays mp3's through the tape adapter and 25' unsightly extension cord snaking through my apartment. Boom! Also, while you peons are fumbling around with your compact disc "technology" (if you can still call it that), I have unbridled access to my entire library of mp3s. That's some 29GB of music. Some 350 albums. Some 300 hours straight of continus audio. That's right. Have fun waking up to that one track, if that's even enough to wake up an infidel such as yourself. I on the other hand can sleep with security, comfort and peace of mind knowing that my alarm clock will attempt to wake me up with 14 days of new and unrepeated audio. It feels good to be powerful. Furthermore!

My Dream Machine is seeing extended use in the bathroom, where it plays mp3’s through the tape adapter and 25′ unsightly extension cord snaking through my apartment. Boom!

Also, while you peons are fumbling around with your compact disc “technology” (if you can still call it that), I have unbridled access to my entire library of mp3s. That’s some 29GB of music. Some 350 albums. Some 300 hours straight of continus audio. That’s right. Have fun waking up to that one track, if that’s even enough to wake up an infidel such as yourself. I on the other hand can sleep with security, comfort and peace of mind knowing that my alarm clock will attempt to wake me up with 14 days of new and unrepeated audio. It feels good to be powerful.

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Natalie http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-184 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:27:01 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-184 OK folks...let us review these two comments: My post: The link works and it brings us to the wonderous image of my "Dream Machine". Oh, and I failed to mention, my "Dream Machine" is the loveliest of pinks. Just an added bonus. Mike's post: The link takes us to an ebay auction for " ". Yeah. The link takes you to an ebay auction for NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. Nothin. Nuttin. Nothing's there. OK, now let us summarize: My link shows an actual piece of technology and Mike's link show's a big black void of nothingness and never has been. Hmmmmm, very interesting. Interesting indeed. It's starting to make me think...if he lied about the 80's time telling robot.......does this supposed "POWER"-filled, mp3 playing USB hardware even exist!?! Quite the imagination Dragonmaster. Now go finish your Filet-o Fish. OK folks…let us review these two comments:

My post: The link works and it brings us to the wonderous image of my “Dream Machine”. Oh, and I failed to mention, my “Dream Machine” is the loveliest of pinks. Just an added bonus.

Mike’s post: The link takes us to an ebay auction for ” “. Yeah. The link takes you to an ebay auction for NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. Nothin. Nuttin. Nothing’s there.

OK, now let us summarize:

My link shows an actual piece of technology and Mike’s link show’s a big black void of nothingness and never has been. Hmmmmm, very interesting. Interesting indeed. It’s starting to make me think…if he lied about the 80’s time telling robot…….does this supposed “POWER”-filled, mp3 playing USB hardware even exist!?! Quite the imagination Dragonmaster. Now go finish your Filet-o Fish.

]]> Comment on Problem solving in true form by: Mike McG http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-183 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:13:53 +0000 http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2006/01/19/problem-solving-in-true-form/#comment-183 History lesson for ya'll. This one takes us back to 1992, Christmas. It was a particularly dark and stormy one, the kind that you never forget no matter how much booze or therapy you go through. It was terrible, but there was one glimmer of light, one pinpoint, of the faintest, twinkling of a mere possibility of hope. The parents of Mike McGranahan bought him a Sony ICF-CS650. Better known as, a Dream Machine! WHO'S THE COPYCAT NOW?! AND A MERE 13 YEARS LATE. See it here! Now! http://search.ebay.com/icf-cs650_W0QQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQmaxrecordsreturnedZ300 Sure, I could only find one reference to it on the Internet. Sure that one reference was from Canada. Sure that one reference was to an auction of someone (Canadian, no less) that was trying to get rid of it. Laugh all you want. But that thing still works, with it's clunky-by-today's-standards cassette-playing ability. So why do I go through the trouble of kernel modules et al? BECAUSE I NEED MORE POWER! While the rest of the world may be satisfied waking up the music that can be described as queer or garbage, I prefer to wake up to mp3's! Madonna mp3's! History lesson for ya’ll. This one takes us back to 1992, Christmas. It was a particularly dark and stormy one, the kind that you never forget no matter how much booze or therapy you go through. It was terrible, but there was one glimmer of light, one pinpoint, of the faintest, twinkling of a mere possibility of hope. The parents of Mike McGranahan bought him a Sony ICF-CS650. Better known as, a Dream Machine! WHO’S THE COPYCAT NOW?! AND A MERE 13 YEARS LATE.

See it here! Now! http://search.ebay.com/icf-cs650_W0QQfrppZ50QQfsopZ1QQmaxrecordsreturnedZ300

Sure, I could only find one reference to it on the Internet. Sure that one reference was from Canada. Sure that one reference was to an auction of someone (Canadian, no less) that was trying to get rid of it. Laugh all you want. But that thing still works, with it’s clunky-by-today’s-standards cassette-playing ability. So why do I go through the trouble of kernel modules et al? BECAUSE I NEED MORE POWER! While the rest of the world may be satisfied waking up the music that can be described as queer or garbage, I prefer to wake up to mp3’s! Madonna mp3’s!

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