What American Accent Do You Have?

I came across this quiz, and I thought my results were interesting:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West   Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Why do I think that the results are interesting?  Well...

1. I was born in Southern California
2. I grew up in Florida
3. I now live in Atlanta

Animation-ish

One more quick post for the day...

I just heard about this software and wanted to share. I think it would be something cool for my kids to play around with, though it may be a little over their heads at the moment. Well, over the 3 y.o. and 1 y.o. heads, but maybe not the 6 y.o. and probably not the 9 y.o.

It's called "Animation-ish". It just looks cool. Try it out.

I downloaded the trial and tried one quick "wiggle-ish", but I was on a laptop that didn't have a mouse hooked up to it and had to use the touch pad, which is on its way South... So my result was less-than-desirable, but still kind of fun. Here it is (I hope this works, but if it doesn't then right-click here and save the AVI file to your local disk--be sure to have "repeat" turned on, because the video is only 3 frames long!):

Digital Music Library

I have almost completed my first phase of going totally digital in my home.  I spent a few days last week ripping all of my CDs to MP3 format.  Well, like I said, I ripped almost all of my CDs.  I haven't gone through the Christmas CDs or my classical collection.

I used Windows Media Player to rip them at 320K, which is the highest setting it supports.

Why not use iTunes, you ask?  Well, I do have iTunes installed on the same computer, but I'm only using it to get music on and off of my iPod.  I like how WMP organizes the files, especially when it comes to album art.  With iTunes I see a file that claims to have the album art, but I don't know what format it's in.  With WMP there are actual JPEG files that get set as the folder image when browsing in Windows Explorer in "Thumbnails" view (like you see in the background of the picture above).

Plus, my ultimate goal is to get a Windows Media Center PC and extenders so that I'll have access to my media everywhere in the house, so I want to keep this as an all-Microsoft solution.  For the moment, though, I'll wait: the current CableCARD technology doesn't support "On Demand", yet.  Someday it will and my home media system will come to fruition.

In the meantime, my entire cabinet of CDs has been compressed down to one 500GB external USB hard drive.  It's a funny thing: now that I have my entire collection readily accessible I can't find anything to listen to!