Working iPod Halloween Costume 313
Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"
Idea for Apple? (Score:5, Interesting)
On a more serious note though, a real scary Halloween custume is Death framed inside a blue-tinted Window.
With so many images on one page, this guy obviously didn't read the Do-Not-Slashdot ACT 1996 [interneh.com], here's a coral link [nyud.net] just in case.
coralized link is working (Score:5, Informative)
i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.
Genius costume, idiotic web design. (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't he know how to use thumbnails?
Perhaps we should add a guide to
Before posting:
I. Thou shalt not use high resolution images on your webpages.
II. If thou do and link them from
I'll be the first to say it... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:5, Funny)
TI-85 Front [ticalc.org]
TI-85 Back [ticalc.org]
ha! beat that!
Just for the record, my name is not Seth.
(original article) [ticalc.org]
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:2)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll be the first to say it... (Score:2)
I like this one better... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I like this one better... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I like this one better... (Score:2)
nice costume, but (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:nice costume, but (Score:2)
Re:nice costume, but (Score:4, Informative)
Re:nice costume, but (Score:2, Informative)
- I think you will find you are just inside a jelly [jolt.co.uk].
Not only (Score:5, Funny)
But it still looks better any model from creative, virgin, ogg vorbis player, out there!
Re:Not only (Score:5, Funny)
why iPod costume? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:5, Funny)
I pity the fool.
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:5, Insightful)
Typically, the range of women presented to your average geek is:
sane, hot, intelligent, available, nice
Pick any four.
Not only that, but typically, girls who are hot just don't have to be nice. Or intelligent, or pursue any kind of intellectual pursuit. And the ones that are hot AND intelligent usually have something seriously wrong with them emotionally/mentally. Something about being attractive and knowing you're attractive, and being told you're attractive and getting your way because you're attractive for most of your life, drastically messes people up.
There are exceptions, of course, to these rules of thumb. But the exceptions always have boyfriends. Who aren't you, by the way.
Not much has happened in my 25 years of life to ever shake me from this analysis of the situation, but I'd be very interested in the opinions of anyone who thinks otherwise.
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2)
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2)
Was wondering, "Wow, there's a manual for us ADD folks out there?".
Fortunately, I'm not that far gone. Yet.
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:2, Interesting)
Damn, you're cynical. I went to a party a year ago as Dilbert. I was surprised to find myself going home with the phone number of a gorgeous, intelligent, caring girl. (The relationship didn't last much longer than a month, but I don't
Re:why iPod costume? (Score:4, Funny)
Did you still respect it in the morning?
Where? (Score:3, Funny)
The RIAA wants royalties (Score:5, Funny)
Here comes the Apple... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess it's not like he could get caught infringing on Apple's trademark. The only way he could get caught would be to post a description and links to pictures on a well known website. He shouldn't get in any troub...oh, nevermind. Good luck.
just bad (Score:4, Insightful)
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume"
great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
Re:just bad (Score:2)
Hey baby... (Score:4, Funny)
Extended Warranty (Score:5, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.ed
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
Clue Phone Is Ringing For You (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
I decided to be a web server this year (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:2)
Mod parent up.
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know why this guy didn't put this on his personal web space instead of the department's web space.
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:2)
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:2)
p
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:5, Interesting)
On the other hand, anybody with an active e-mail account (i.e. him) gets 1 GB of space on www-personal.umich.edu, a bank of servers dedicated to hosting personal space for the entire university (and could probably accomodate the load). He probably also gets the 200 MB offered through CAEN, the engineering computer network, hosted at www-personal.engin.umich.edu and also probably more than capable of handling the load.
For whatever reason, the EECS department doesn't seem to have a web server capable of serving very many people, and it's come down a couple times over the last few weeks under normal loads. To think it would be able to withstand a slashdotting is laughable. This infrastructure problems aren't his fault, but it'd seem much more logical to place the page on servers that are designed to handle uber loads, instead of posting it on a shared server that contains project specs and homework assignments that students need access to 24/7.
My comment was only meant to say that he either didn't realize that the EECS web server wasn't a piece of shit, or didn't care that he was going to crash a server that a lot of people need access to right now.
On the other hand, one would think that a major computer science/engineering deparment that is getting grants to research ways to withstand DOS attacks would be able to withstand a slashdotting... obviously that's wishful thinking.
Re:I decided to be a web server this year (Score:4, Funny)
Well, then we just provided them with quite a bit of data on DoS attacks, didn't we?
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't want my homework anyway (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't want to do my homework today anyway. :-)
Re:I didn't want my homework anyway (Score:5, Funny)
kiddy stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Pictures? Same guy? (Score:2)
Re:Pictures? Same guy? (Score:5, Funny)
*really* slow news day today... They don't come lamer than this.
Re:Pictures? Same guy? (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Triumph Quote... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Triumph Quote... (Score:2, Funny)
Did you happen to notice my Subject line "Obligatory Triumph Quote" ?
"Finally" found a good use for a tablet PC (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Finally" found a good use for a tablet PC (Score:3, Interesting)
With far better ease of use. The person using it would hold it on there left and write onto it as if it wqere a clip board. Far easier the trying to jugle a laptop while walking around.
There are really only three things holding back mass adoption:
1) Cost of manufacturing - It cast almost the same to manufacture a tablet as it does a laptop. Mostly do to the fact that there hasn't been enough of them produced to begin refining the ma
Re:"Finally" found a good use for a tablet PC (Score:3, Informative)
Um, why? Because it's a Microsoft OS? Have you used one?
My TabletPC has been very useful since I bought it in January of 2003. Have I been brainwashed, not realizing that I've actually been taking notes for almost 2 years on an Etch-A-Sketch? Powerful FUD indeed!
Needlessly Slashdotted (Score:3, Informative)
saint pauly girl should have won! (Score:5, Funny)
whats so scary about an ipod? (Score:2)
Or am I missing something and lots of people in this persons neighborhood work for the RIAA?
I haven't (Score:2)
Protection (Score:5, Funny)
iPod? Screw that (Score:2)
I want a step by step about every part of her costume.
I dunno ... (Score:2)
iPod costume, eh? (Score:3, Interesting)
Its a necklace, not a costume (Score:2)
This is, well.. sort of dull...
More cool costumes (Score:5, Interesting)
Paparazzi costume [cockeyed.com]
Jenga costume [cockeyed.com]
Africa costume [cockeyed.com]
California costume [cockeyed.com]
you suck (Score:5, Informative)
Please don't ever put eecs up to the
It would've been even cooler if he'd used Chicago. (Score:2, Informative)
There's more info about Apple's fonts on Wikipedia, but for some reason Slashdot won't let me link to it. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_fonts
Red Robot's ipod costume was better (Score:2, Funny)
Saw one myself (Score:2, Interesting)
That was one of the coolest costumes I've ever seen.
Best costume idea ever. (Score:5, Funny)
*cough* (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:*cough* (Score:5, Informative)
I'd say rm -rf ~/* under his name and delete the account. A whole lot of us are stuck up here working without access to course websites.
Looks like shit (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Corporate shill (Score:3, Funny)
it is now safe to take off your tin foil hat.
Re:Corporate shill (Score:2)
--
What would happen if
Re:Corporate shill (Score:2, Informative)
They conjugate funny on the other side of the pond
is all.
Re:Down (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, Slashdot is destroying productivity as never before.
Re:Down (Score:2)
It sure is a good thing that I stayed in to read slashdot, so that I could bring the rest of you this insightful comment. Anyone in bursley up for a game of UT2003?
Re:For my woman (Score:2, Funny)
Re:For my woman (Score:2)
Re:Here's a tip. . . . (Score:2)
Re:Please explain for us foreigners ... (Score:2)
Re:Please explain for us foreigners ... (Score:3, Funny)
And to think that all this time, I thought the candy was an indirect gift to dentists.
Re:Please explain for us foreigners ... (Score:3, Informative)
What you posted is a commonly held myth. The only connection between the pagan rituals of europe and halloween is that christians dressed up as demons, ghosts out of fun and to mock the formerly held superstitions of Europeans. Some neo-pagans might think they are "reviving" old paganism but what they believe in bares little resemblance to old pagan religio
Re:Real Story: Why is his dorm room so nice? (Score:2)
-insert old guy rant mode-
Back when I was in school, before Windows and USB, we would have taken a trash 80's I/O port and a couple pieces of lamp cord along with some electrical tape and a really long extension cord...
-end old guy rant mode-