Farsong Blog-o-Matic

Remember yesterday's Very Tiny Pecan Pie? To-day, since I accidentally the very tiny pecan pie, I have a fun project that has nothing to do with it (it does, however, require a very tiny pie tin. It cost me 80¢, and I don't know if it works, but the airport signal in my menubar indicates full signal.

In fact, the project is a very tiny pietin waveguide. It's really quite straightforward:

Step 1:
Punch a hole in the pie tin.

Step 2:
Stick the PowerMac G5 Airport antenna (which is kinda sucky on its own)


And stick it through the hole you made:









Step 3:
Install and direct (the direction of my wireless router is "up and back"):





Step 4:
???


Step 5:
Profit!



This seriously took me all of about three minutes and 80¢. I think it took longer to actually eat the little pie. I also have no data as to the strength of the signal with and without.

For note, the song “Beginnings” by Chicago predates the "Cowbell" meme by many years. It's also a rhythmically-pleasing use of cowbell after all the other instruments fade out at the end of the nearly-eight-minute song (long, but nothing compared to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer).

However awesome old Chicago was (pre-1978), that's not what I'm about at the moment.

You know how I installed that 802.11g wireless card (Airport Extreme) in my G5, the other day? Yeah? Well, you might be interested to know that I keep it turned off most of the time.

( Wherein I explain the wherefore )

In class, searching for wireless networks (the school-provided wireless routers were acting sketchy), I stumbled across one called “OpenSource” which was, ironically enough, protected with WEP WPA encryption.

( Wireless routers, blah blah )

This Wednesday, I got a pair of Bluetooth-enabled Logitech headphones for the iPod.

Simply put, the headphones are simple and easy to use, though the sound quality is not nearly as good as wired headphones, though the bass frequency response is surprisingly excellent; the headphones are not cheap or tinny. However, there are to reasons what make these headphones wonderful: first, they are wireless ergo free of restrictive cords what catch on things whilst walking. Point the Second: they are a talking point, upon which I field such annoying queries as "Those headphones! They have no wires! Are they wireless?" though once past these, the conversation progresses.

A little heavier than normal headphones, these are not too heavy or bulky, and are also quite well-designed.

Full review after the jump.
( Logitech Bluetooth Headphones for iPod )


P.S.: The new Decemberists album, The Crane Wife, is amazing.