Well there is and I found it.

Slice Audio Splitter
The homepage (looks kinda jacked up with some code at the top of the page)
Where I got the file – About.com site on audio splitting. About.com is lame I know but it worked.

You can split an mp3 several different ways like by section length, number of sections, etc. I just wanted to split up a DJ mix into several parts so I can put it on a CD and easily navigate through it without having to fastforward for 5 minutes to get to a part I like.

Hope someone that ended up here needed something like it. Cheers!

This is obviously an issue with Wordpress as different sites with different themes were susceptible. I’m up to date but hopefully they’ll have a fix out soon so I can turn the comments back on.

The good ole Rants and Raves hit an all-new high this past month with an astonishing (for me) 21,557 hits this past month. Never had traffic like that. Thanks to all the people who check this blog regularly (even though I haven’t been posting as regularly as they’ve been checking) and thanks to the haters who leave comments because your +1 makes me feel good.

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Everything Disc Golf
Order Process Time: 2 hours
Order Ship Time: Standard shipping from Austin, TX to Jackson, MS – 2 days
Product Quality: Great! Two discs were separate in the box and the others were sealed in a plastic bag. Two discs look like they’ve been moved around in a warehouse for a while now (no cuts or scuffs) and the others look like they’ve never been touched by human hands.

I’ll be doing individual reviews of the discs and how they throw/fly etc. But for now I’ll stick with what I thought I was getting and what I got.

Disc Golf Association Blowfly II

This disc is fun, flies relatively straight over a short distance and is really really rubbery/flexible (click to see for yourself!). After playing with the Innova DX plastic for years I had no idea that discs came so floppy! I plan on using this one every chance I get because I just enjoy the difference of it and a standard putter/midrange and enjoy the way it feels. The color of the disc on the EDG site was like a purple color but looking at the DiscGolfAssoc.com website it clearly shows that the Blowfly II is a blueish color – which it definitely is. At $11, this disc is surely going to be worth the money and save a lot of my other discs from violent tree-deaths.

Discmania Greater Midrange (GM)

Innova made the Gremlin a while back and has since discontinued it sometime in 2004. Nobody is really sure why as it was one of the better mid-range discs out there. Reviews like “I have come to a conclusion that the best midrange on the market is the Pro Line Gremlin. The only problem is that the Gremlin has been discontinued by Innova and is close to impossible to get your hands on.” (source) led me on a journey to find one of these puppies. That’s when I found the Discmania GM. You have seen this disc before as the Gremlin in the Innova line. Discmania has taken over this out of production Innova Gremlin model and it’s available in their D-line plastic which is similar to the Innova DX (but a little more rubbery feeling to me). I am expecting great throws from this little guy.

Discraft Nuke

I fell for the “featured” products at the top of the EDG page and sunk one of these Nukes in my shopping cart. It’s a bright royal blue color with silver lettering on their website but was shipped to me in a bright orange/yellow color (probably because I selected the “bright” color option). Turns out that Discraft engineers spent more than a year developing this disc (so that’s why it cost me $15…). Every pro disc golfer out there has tooted the Nuke horn (who knows how much $ they were paid to say it of course) and said that it’s the furthest driver in their bag. We’ll see how that goes when I get a chance to throw it. It’s extremely low-profile and has a really wide rim on it.

Turbo Putt

Ok I admit it. I bouht this disc solely for the way it looked. I didn’t expect it to have a big spiral on the underside that’s supposed to be where your thumb can grab on. That and the fact that this is the only disc to have it’s PDGA approval revoked. There was a legal battle between Quest and PDGA so the Turbo Putt was re-approved until the end of 2008 and now it is no longer approved. Sweet! I hope I don’t fall in love with this disc and end up playing in PDGA-sanctioned tournaments!! The QuestAT website lists the PDGA approval in 2007 but doesn’t mention it being revoked. I was expecting a blueish color disc going by the pictures on the EDG site but got this one in white (fine by me). Pretty fun disc and great conversation piece about the different types of discs out there.

The Wheel

Another disc that I was drawn to simply by it’s shape and style. It’s wide round rim resembles a bike tire and  has a flat “middle”. Roll this disc backhand or overhand to roll past obstacles or throw high underhand shots with backspin for a precision stop. I’m really looking forward to this one. This is yet another QuestAT disc that is “Is a PDGA conforming golf disc and we are awaiting its PDGA approval.” – I doubt that with the troubles they gave the PDGA with the Turbo Putt that this disc will ever be approved. But it looks cool as hell and is sure to get me out of some tight spots!

Fade Gear – Lite Bag

I picked this bag because #1 I have read lots of good things about the Fade Gear bags and #2 because I didn’t really need a very large bag… From the looks of it (another picture) this looks like a very sturdy durable bag that’s not too big. It’s got one drink holder, a front pocket (and one for my mini disc) some pencil holders, and a zipper-net compartment inside the lid. The zippers themselves are a little frustrating as they go around the back less than an inch and it can be difficult to get them to zip back around sometimes. We’ll see how that plays out in the long run and if I end up getting frustrated with it. It’s good for these discs I bought and I can easily fit 2-3 more in it.

Stay tuned for some reviews of the discs once I get a chance to use them!

Photoshop. Helping the graphically inclined rub out photobombers since 1988

Click the image to see a bigger before/after. (yeah I know it’s not perfect but for a small print or web use you’d never know something was missing)

Now I’m not a believer of Karma (in a nutshell – belief that what goes around comes around) but a few weeks ago I wrote a rant about people tagging all their friends in these collage pictures (Facebook: Stop Tagging These) like smiley faces, pinup girls, etc etc…and how stupid/annoying I thought it was.

Well I was again tagged in one of these pictures the other day and I was tagged as “Dusty” in this one. WTF does that mean? I’m not physically dirty… I thought maybe that it’s because my picture was a black and white picture with some sepia tones – but then how are other people pictures Lucky or Cuddly or Nice? It’s hard to tell someone’s personality from a picture of them with a milk mustache. I asked the kind tagger what “dusty meant” and they said they weren’t sure but my picture looked dusty cause it was brown. Thanks. Thanks a lot. I’m officially this guy.

It wasn’t the notification that alerted me to the fact that someone had tagged me in one of these collages – it was the fact that I had around 17 newsfeed items from my friends being tagged in the same picture. I know the argument is “QQ I can do what I want, it’s MY facebook!” but it’s really annoying and nobody really likes these things but you.

One more time: QUIT TAGGING THESE!

Update: This no longer seems to exist. They killed it in a patch at some point.

For those of you who haven’t seen this yet there’s a new version of facebook available (In addition to the mobile and full versions) called Facebook Lite. Facebook Lite is a mix between the mobile version and the full version it seems. The first obvious omission is the Facebook Chat… which for some reason causes my computer to hang for a split second every time I get a new message… and even if I’m in another tab it causes my keyboard to lose focus in whatever field I’m typing into (even though the cursor is still sitting there blinking at me).

I couldn’t find options like “Poke” on other people’s profile and their wall seems to be much more lightweight and load much faster.

If you’ve got a slow computer and don’t necessarily care about all the bells and whistles then Facebook Lite seems to be the way to go. It also might be a nice choice for those of you who have smartphones and don’t feel like using an old “mobile” version of Facebook.

Check it out! Facebook Lite

I’ve been told time and time again by local businesses that there’s a minimum amount that I have to spend in order for them to accept my credit card. Usually it’s a donut shop or convenience store that has a lot of transactions that are in small amounts (ie 1 pack of cigarettes or a couple of sprinkle-donuts). There’s actually no rules that say you have to purchase a certain amount and in fact it’s against the store’s Merchant Agreement to demand a minimum purchase.

Nontoxicreviews.com has kindly created some easily printable PDF’s that are credit-card sized and you can whip these badboys out next time someone claims that you have to purchase a minimum amount. Thanks, Andy.

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Picked up an Acer Aspire One today from Walmart of all places. I don’t normally shop for my electronics there but Best Buy’s selection was slim to none and Wally-World had what I wanted so I bought it. I needed it small, decently fast, and read more card formats other than just SD. I was trying to choose between the MSI and the Acer. Best Buy didn’t have either (they did online but were sold out) and on my way back to work, defeated, I tried walmart.com and sure enough they had them in-store. So far I love my Aspire One. Here’s a good write-up on it. I’ll post again with some rants and raves about it once I’ve had time to use it a bit.