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Hey internet peoples! Any of you ever been to Yellowstone Park? If yes, please boss me around feel free to offer advice or comments. eta: we'll be staying near the south entrance, so anything about Jackson Hole or or Star Valley would also be helpful. /eta
As long as I'm asking for advice, any thoughts on MP3 players? I'm looking for one that has at least 2gb of memory and uses a replaceable battery (like AA or AAA), or a battery that's easy to recharge. FM Tuner and voice recording would be excellent but not required. So if you have a brand you like or a brand you hate (even if they don't match what I'm looking for), let me know why. I hate shopping for electronics. It's annoying.
I finally had a RL friend finish reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She immediately phoned me so we could talk. We both oohed and ahhed and were generally big nerds on the phone.
I feel like I ought to be useful in this post, since I'm asking for help. Most of you are probably already aware of this, but Pandora is a cool, free online music service. You can create multiple "stations" based on music you already like, and they'll guess about other songs you might like, based on what information you give them. After the first several songs you have to register, but it's still free, unless you want to use their mobile service. (I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora is shut down eventually, due to the whole internet radio royalties controversy.)
Two things I like about Pandora: 1) if you click that you don't like a particular song that's playing, it will skip to the next one in the queue and 2) I'm getting a lot of names of artists to hunt down on emusic. BTW, if you haven't tried emusic, you can get a trial membership with free downloads.
One of my favorite French-language singers, Axelle Red, has a new single, Naive. The video is here on YouTube. (I find it amusing that Axelle, who grew up in the Netherlands, learned French from TV and from her parents arguing in French in an effort to keep the kids from knowing what they were arguing about.) eta: the vid's okay, what I really like is the song. /eta
La Grande Sophie, who sings in French and actually is French, made one of my favorite French music videos (not that I've seen many), and I found it on YouTube as well: On Savait (devenir grand). Video quality isn't spectacular, but it never is on YouTube.
As long as I'm asking for advice, any thoughts on MP3 players? I'm looking for one that has at least 2gb of memory and uses a replaceable battery (like AA or AAA), or a battery that's easy to recharge. FM Tuner and voice recording would be excellent but not required. So if you have a brand you like or a brand you hate (even if they don't match what I'm looking for), let me know why. I hate shopping for electronics. It's annoying.
I finally had a RL friend finish reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She immediately phoned me so we could talk. We both oohed and ahhed and were generally big nerds on the phone.
I feel like I ought to be useful in this post, since I'm asking for help. Most of you are probably already aware of this, but Pandora is a cool, free online music service. You can create multiple "stations" based on music you already like, and they'll guess about other songs you might like, based on what information you give them. After the first several songs you have to register, but it's still free, unless you want to use their mobile service. (I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora is shut down eventually, due to the whole internet radio royalties controversy.)
Two things I like about Pandora: 1) if you click that you don't like a particular song that's playing, it will skip to the next one in the queue and 2) I'm getting a lot of names of artists to hunt down on emusic. BTW, if you haven't tried emusic, you can get a trial membership with free downloads.
One of my favorite French-language singers, Axelle Red, has a new single, Naive. The video is here on YouTube. (I find it amusing that Axelle, who grew up in the Netherlands, learned French from TV and from her parents arguing in French in an effort to keep the kids from knowing what they were arguing about.) eta: the vid's okay, what I really like is the song. /eta
La Grande Sophie, who sings in French and actually is French, made one of my favorite French music videos (not that I've seen many), and I found it on YouTube as well: On Savait (devenir grand). Video quality isn't spectacular, but it never is on YouTube.