The totally off-topic thread

[erkpod]

I saw this spider's web between the fence & one of my bins. I was going to get rid of it as it was where I needed to go. Then I thought that I should get a photo first, especially considering my car headlight lit it up.

Then I went around it...

 

[Robbi]

In the days of the old iPod classic, before apple drowned all of its competitors, I tried to resist the I-bandwagon, and got a 60g Creative Zen. It was, as a salesman recently admitted, a "smoking little machine" although ugly. I can't use it, as the little white connector to charge it with has gone AWOL, and the company almost has too. Has anyone any familiarity with these, or knows where I might access spare parts for such a dinosaur? There's a lot of stuff on it I'd like to hear again.

Try eBay...

 

[Pushka]

In the days of the old iPod classic, before apple drowned all of its competitors, I tried to resist the I-bandwagon, and got a 60g Creative Zen. .

Ah yes. We purchased one of those too as we were determined not to go the apple route.

 

[Robbi]

In the days of the old iPod classic, before apple drowned all of its competitors, I tried to resist the I-bandwagon, and got a 60g Creative Zen. It was, as a salesman recently admitted, a "smoking little machine" although ugly. I can't use it, as the little white connector to charge it with has gone AWOL, and the company almost has too. Has anyone any familiarity with these, or knows where I might access spare parts for such a dinosaur? There's a lot of stuff on it I'd like to hear again.

Some quickies from eBay...

USB CABLE LEAD CORD FOR CREATIVE ZEN XFI2 X F12 X-FI X-FI2 X FI Fi2 MP3 PLAYER

Creative ZEN Vision M ZVM ZS ZSP USB usb sync charger cable

Creative Zen Range Travel Adaptor

Or Amazon....

 

[moa999]

Just gone on the sonos bandwagon with a pair of play:1's. Setup took 2 main and have the choice of heaps of tunein radio stations, all the paid services or my 2tb nas

 

[Ewing]

Just gone on the sonos bandwagon with a pair of play:1's. Setup took 2 main and have the choice of heaps of tunein radio stations, all the paid services or my 2tb nas

I picked up a Play:3 a few weeks ago. It's fantastic.

Tempted to get the play bar for my living room.

 

[Major]

Now 41° at home on the verandah

 

[deejo77]

24 degrees out this way (ipswich)...............maybe if I open the door and go outside it might be a little hotter (45+)

 

[TomVexille]

In the days of the old iPod classic, before apple drowned all of its competitors, I tried to resist the I-bandwagon, and got a 60g Creative Zen. It was, as a salesman recently admitted, a "smoking little machine" although ugly. I can't use it, as the little white connector to charge it with has gone AWOL, and the company almost has too. Has anyone any familiarity with these, or knows where I might access spare parts for such a dinosaur? There's a lot of stuff on it I'd like to hear again.

I had one of the 40gb ones back before the 60. Those were the days when the iPod had reached the heights of having 10gb. Creative made a good piece of hardware.

 

[Rox]

Try eBay...

Thank you- I may have some good leads from this - I thought I had tried eBay before but came up with nothing - if successful I will be a very happy bunny and will owe you an almond mars bar.

 

[QF WP]

Hot as Hades in Brisbane today:



Here comes the thunderstorm



BNE will be shutting down when it arrived and flights diverted and/or circling OOL

 

[Major]

Not sure about that...OOL is about to get whacked

 

[Pushka]

33? Nah. 43 is hot as hades. Like Adelaide had a few days ago. Add an overnight minimum of 28 to that.

 

[bass_ke]

Not sure about that...OOL is about to get whacked

A c208 just came in on 14 ( 32 was the active runway) to beat the storm and a qantas 738 just did a go around with a circuit not above 1500ft to try and land before the storm completely came over.


Fun times!

 

[Robbi]

33? Nah. 43 is hot as hades. Like Adelaide had a few days ago. Add an overnight minimum of 28 to that.

I guess hades is just cooler in Brisvegas!

 

[anat0l]

Well you can drop the "vegas" ending on BNE. Well, at least for part of the north side.

Quite a storm we had and now we have no power. Can't see any lights excpet a couple of fleeting ones in the distance. Oh, and of course those with Christmas lights powered with batteries (whilst their house is ironically dark).

I feel sorry for the young tots in the dark. Electronic devices will only last so long on battery power (admittedly a long time these days - hopefully long enough until the power is restored - but you know what I mean. ... )

In the old days, we used to pass the time reading (of course) or playing cards (a very rarely seen pastime these days!)

 

[anat0l]

Power is back on. And the small cheers of many kids resound throughout the community.

 

[Flashback]

A scorching 7 in London today. Overnight minimum of 5. :mrgreen:

 

[QF WP]

Was watching a lot of planes coming in low and hot to beat the BNE storms, but in the middle of the blackout (anat0l and I are in the same area), I saw a couple of light planes taking off and flying to the N-NW. Crazy IMHO, but I'm no pilot...

 

[erkpod]

You know that feeling you get when you see something for a split second & you think you know what you saw but aren't 100% sure? You wish you can rewind to make sure but can't?

Whatever the blonde woman was doing with her pants around her ankles at the station at 0030 - she was anything but discreet....