Hi all,

Maritime:Now THAT is my kind of movie! Its already on my "to go see n buy" list

Of all the research i have done being a part time archeologist that i found to make any kind of Nutty sense of it all, was reading about the Iraq Sumerian texts Zecharia Sitchin could well be another nutcase, but i got t hand it t the man spending a lifetime studying the first civilisation of man, wouldnt sign up for his theorys tho, that would be like making another religion?¿

Fortunately i,ve been able t live long enough t really live my life t its full without the bible/koran etc bashin nightmare inflicted on so many

Do the Stu - You're right, I'm not looking to get rid of my ipod touch. It's a great mp3 player. But it's also something that you feel you have to be very careful handling. The mp3 I use when I run is an ipod shuffle. After a year and a half I have finally decided to perhaps break away from that. It's great for what it is. But you have no control of playlists or anything else. You just push play and off it goes. I am looking for something with a lot of options that I can use as a kick around mp3, running and so on. I will definitely check out the sans disc. I think I have heard some good things about them in the past. I like the more bang for the buck. More gigabyte per dollar is good. Looking for decent features. Maybe an FM tuner.

Skippygirl - Be happy to go through it. First thing you do is go to your ituens and check your playlists. One of the playlists is called purchased. Not purchased on "name" ipod. Just the one that says purchased. If you have never deleted any of these since you have had itunes, then all of your purchased songs should be there. If you have cleared that playlist out, then you should recreate a playlist that you want to burn from itunes. At the bottome right of your playlist there is a button that says burn. Click that button. It will prompt you to pick an audio cd or an mp3 cd. You should choose audio cd. This will uncompress the music and give you almost original cd quality music. Once you insert your blank disc and start recording, itunes will open your disc tray at the end of each disc. It will tell you that you will need multiple discs. click the button that says "audio cds" and you're off and running. If you come to a point where you need to stop and do something else, click the x at the top left and it will stop the burning process. Keep in mind if you stop before all your songs are burned, you will want to delete the songs that you got copied onto disc. Delete them out of the playlist. That way when you start burning again, it doesn't start all over. After you have all your cds, go to your windows media player. Click the "rip" tab at the top and insert your disc. It will give you an option of quality. I suggest doing it at the highest quality mp3. It's better than ituens best (currently 256kbps). Once these discs have been ripped to your windows media player, you can now go iinto your music folder on your computer and drag and drop your purchased itunes songs into any media player you want. Keep in mind, this is a very lengthy process!! Also, once you have ripped your songs in the windows media player, it puts your songs into an "unknown" music folder. It also will not have any names or artists to your songs. So before you rip your songs to windows media, you will probably want to put that information on your songs after they are in your new library.

Big Bunny - http://www.guitarworld.com/node/1809? You should send them your picture!

Roffler - LOL and how many drinks had you had BEFORE you decided to go get some beer....One too many me thinks hehe

Ibanez_god - DOH! ...yeah I have a story every day that makes me go DOH!...but I think the most classic was when my boyfriend and I had been to a party on at the weekend and got home about 5pm on the sunday...we went straight to bed, having been up all weekend on speed, we needed sleep to get up for work monday morning....so we wake up at 7.45am..the boyfriend having to be at work at 8...aaaaaaaaagh big panic...get dressed and rush out to walk to work... we get halfway and we notice that there are people in the pub...thats a bit odd....what are they doing in there at this time of the morning?

DOH! yep...we had had almost 3 hours kip and because it was the time of year where the light was about the same at 8am and 8pm we hadn't noticed that it was in fact 7.45 in the evening when we woke up!

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Male v Female definitions....

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n.

Female: Any part under a car's hood.
Male: The strap fastener on a woman's bra.

2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.

Female: Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
Male: Playing cricket without a box.

3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n.

Female: The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
Male: Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys.

4. COMMITMENT (ko-mit-ment) n.

Female: A desire to get married and raise a family.
Male: Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one.

5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.

Female: A good movie, concert, play or book.
Male: Anything that can be done while drinking beer.

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.

Female: An embarrassing by product of indigestion.
Male: A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding.

7 MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n.

Female: The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve.
Male: Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it.

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Female: A device for changing from one TV channel to another.
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EVEN GOD ENJOYS A GOOD LAUGH! There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everyone brother.
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:
1. He went into His Father's business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his Mother was sure He was God.
But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:
1. He talked with His hands.
2. He had wine with His meals.
3. He used olive oil.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:
1. He never cut His hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an American Indian:
1. He was at peace with nature.
2. He ate a lot of fish.
3. He talked about the Great Spirit.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:
1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

But the most compelling evidence of all - 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:
1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it.
3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was work to do.

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A cabbie picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won't stop staring at her.

She asks him why is he staring and he replies, "I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you."

She answers, "My dear son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun a long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me." He says.

She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: There are some conditions, though. Number one, you have to be single. And number two, you must be Catholic."

The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I am single and I'm Catholic, too!"

The nun says "OK, pull into the next alley." He does and the nun fulfills his fantasy with a long, drawn out kiss. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," says the nun, "why are you crying?"

The cabbie says, "Forgive me, Sister, but I have sinned. I lied, I must confess. I'm married and I'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK, my name is Kevin and I'm on my way to a Halloween party."

Joe Satriani

Hi hope you get time t respond or see this mail.I,ve just been sent via a friend the David Lucas Burge course on Perfect pitch & i wondered what you make of it?

After a lifetime of sessions playing all the forms/styles then releasing my first CD of my own non style?¿ i have pondered for too long where i must go from here.My idea was at first to open tune the guitar so when i write it comes from my heart instead of pre thought forms of scales chords etc

I know you can sight sing & relative pitch is a major issue for that but are your thoughts on perfect pitch?

The idea of being able to recognize a chord or scale as say A & not A# then be able t write in maniscript exactly that is an art form i am unfamiliar with

could you shed some light on that for me as i like the idea of being able t write like the great composers without need of an instrument

Do the Stu - Ya, I'm definitely not looking to get rid of my ipod touch. It's a GREAT mp3 player and video player. The problem is that I feel like I have to be extremely careful when I handle it. Also, I use an ipod shuffle when I run. I have been using that for about 18 months or so. It's great for what it is, but you have zero options with it. You just push play and that's it. No control over anything. I think I want to get something for everyday use, kicking around and running. thanks for the tip on the Sansa. I really like the bang for the buck. More gigs per dollar is always a good thing. I want to get good features with the one I get. Maybe an FM tuner along with some other things.

Skippygirl - I would love to go through it. Ok, sit back this will take a minute =)

First open your itunes and look at your playlists. There is a playlist titled Purchased, located directly under the itunes store button. Not the one that says purchased on "name" ipod. Just the one that says purchased. If you are like me and you never deleted any songs out of this playlist, then everything you ever purchased from itunes will be in this playlist. If you have deleted the songs out of that playlist you will have to create a playlist with the songs that you want to back up from your library. Once you have your playlist, you will notice a button at the bottom right of the playlist. It says "burn" click that button. It will give you an option to burn an audio cd or an mp3 cd. choose audio cd. This will uncompress your music to nearly cd quality. If you have more than 12 to 15 songs on this playlist it will tell you that it will take multiple cds. Click the button that says "audio cds" Then click burn. Each disc takes roughly 10 minutes, depending on how fast your burner is. At the end of each disc the tray will pop open and prompt you to load another one. Keep track of the songs you are burning. If you are not able to finish it in one sitting, you will need to delete the songs that you put on disc. Delete them from that playlist. They will still be in your library, but just gone from your playlist. this is important, because when you come back to it and start backing up the rest, it will start from song number 1. So you don't want it to redo all the songs you already burned.

Once you have finished with all your discs, open your windows media player. Click the "rip" tab at the top of the page. It will prompt the quality. Choose the mp3 highest quality. I think it's something like 320 kbps. Itunes best AAC is 256 kbps. Once you start ripping the cds the music is stored in a folder labled "unknown" in your music folder. Also, none of the songs have titles or artists. If you want that info in the library, you will have to add them yourself. Once your library is ripped you can then put your music on any of your media players.

It's always good to back up your puchases. The cd's will play in any cd player. And the qulity is really pretty good. You will use a lot of hard drive space if you decide to rip your cds to mp3 format. If you have one, I would recommend storing your mp3 copies onto an external hard drive. Either way, you will at least have your music backed up. You'll be safe if your computer ever decides to crash. I'm not sure that you can retrieve your itunes songs if your computer crashes, so you will want to get this done. Plus once they are ripped to mp3 you will not be super glued to an ipod. By the way, ALL Itunes Plus music can be put on any mp3 player. They are not DRM protected.

Skippygirl, sorry, I guess I did miss any previous posts where u asked me...but no, I don't play guitar. I just appreciate the hell outta anyone who can :) Especially Joe :) My son plays...he's the one in our family who discovered Joe and kept trying to get me interested in listening. He lucked onto a cd of Flying in a Blue Dream at a tag sale...he'd been looking at an EVH cd and we were talking about it and about how Chris was at the time just learning guitar. The guy selling the stuff said "Oh, if you're into guitar players you HAVE to check out this Joe Satriani guy, he's a MONSTER on guitar!" So my son put down the EVH cd and we bought Joe's....and haven't looked back since, LOL!!

Lets get the chat active!!!!