"Tank Battle" on the FMS, anyone?
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I am able to sleep with my eyes open.

 

Might not be a good plan to **** off the crewmember who is preparing something you plan on ingesting we all know what happens next...

 

You're absotutely right. The end of my standard briefing is...... "If we're not having fun, then we need to stop, talk and figure out why." When I flew for a now defunct people carrier I was warned about the effects of Visine on a cup of coffee. And I do love my coffee.

 

Passport is just a small portable inexpensive harddrive made by Western Digital. Bittorrent is a download process to allow you to d/l (and u/l) large files. I used a program called Azureus at first, but now I use Transmission on my Mac.

The way it works is you find the bittorrent file for the program, movie, MP3, etc that you want to d/l (I usually start at Piratebay and Google). You download that small file that Azureus uses to then start downloading the file you want. Many movies files are in the 700MB range, which means that they were compressed to fit on a single CD. It does not affect how it is viewed on my laptop! I store them on my Passport as opposed to on my Mac harddrive, but easily drag and drop them onto my Mac for easy viewing using Front Row on my Mac. The 700MB on a CD also works great for viewing on the DVD/CD player on the back of the front seat headrest of the truck for my 4 yr old daughter to watch her favorite Disney movies while traveling!

You can google about bittorrent to learn more about the process.

 

Handbrake for MAC works great as well. Drop in a DVD in the computer, burns it into a MPEG 800mb-900mb in 30-45 minutes.

Usually have 20 or so movies a time saved onto hard drive. Makes the commute easier.
$1 rentals from redbox help to keep a constant new stream of movies.


http://handbrake.fr/

 

Sean, what did you like about Transmission over azureus for the mac?

 

Smaller, easier program! It took a while for me to figure Azureus out, and I like, but for the occasional download, I just use Transmission.

 

Uh, yea, if you already HAVE the DVD! Hmmm, is Charlie Wilson's War out on DVD yet?

 

Somebody mentioned PSP before, Ive found that it is a great platform for LH entertainment, as you can store music, games, and movies all in a compact package. The Sim cards (you buy em separately 1G-4G) don't take up any space, and the game UMD's are not much larger than a Ritz cracker. Decent battery life too. Bigger screen than an iPod, yet not too big a unit overall.

Sometimes pulling the laptop out is a pain, esp if you are stuck in coach. Hard to watch anything if the guy in front of you has moved his seat all the way back and your screen is pushed forward as a result. No such problem with the PSP, as you can usually just place it in a pocket of your flight jacket.

You just have to get past the "kid thing" aspect of it... As most adults do not usually carry one around, but afer showing the utility of mine vs. my iPod, many coworkers have picked one up too.