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Posted by Lizzie on 07/15/05
The only possible reason we would ever consider getting an iPod is to more conveniently download and listen to stuff like this, especially in our car. Does anyone know how to make a ’94 Volvo into an MP3-playing monster without the genius of L’Apple? **
* Those aren’t our question marks; it’s how the link comes up in the title field. The subhead of the blog is also “I have one question: are we, ah, live now or what?” Christopher Lydon and co. will probably become more sure of themselves once they know we’re listening in the Volvo.
** Speaking of which, does anyone also know how to make this apostrophe — ’94 — go the right fucking way? We yelled at Gawker for this already today, and now feel hypocritical and in need of redemption all at once.
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There are a number of portable cd players that will also play mp3s burned to a disk (they’re around 100 bucks).
Get one of those babies, add a tape adapter, and you’re good to go.
Or you can go all Grand Theft Auto, and steal a car with an mp3 player in it. Preferably one with vanity plates; maybe something with the name “Nantucket” cleverly spelled in six letters.
Comment by bryant — 7/15/2005 @ 2:29 pm
I don’t know if this will do the trick in Gawker, but I’ve had this problem in another program, and what seems to work is to type two in row. One will face in, one out — then go back and delete the one you don’t wan’t. It’s cumbersome, but does get the damn thing facing the write way.
Comment by Karen — 7/15/2005 @ 9:07 pm
… or facing the right way (rather than “write”). Depending. Oh, and I was talking about the apostrophe, not the car question.
Comment by Karen — 7/15/2005 @ 9:09 pm
That’s what I do in Word, and it DOESN’T WORK here; it reflips it whenever you repost (zaha! Riposte!). Completely designed to make proofreaders insane.
Comment by Old Hag — 7/16/2005 @ 11:07 am
I was going to make the same suggestion about the apostrophes, but clearly you need more drastic measures… Those so-called smart quotes are a menace to society. My only suggestion is that you might be able to get a global setting eliminating smart quotes altogether (not sure what software you’re using, but most programs will allow this if you burrow deep enough); you still won’t have it the right way round, but at least it will be the plain old regular straight kind of apostrophe and not backwards. (You know, my other absolute passionate pet peeve is the evil thing word does when you type 18th–those superscript numbers are WRETCHED.)
Comment by Jenny D — 7/16/2005 @ 2:13 pm
Jenny — Do you know a way to get rid of the superscript? What I do now is type it with a space after 18, then go back and delete the space. That usually (but not alwas) keeps the “th” out of superscript. But there has to be an easier way.
Comment by Karen — 7/17/2005 @ 10:25 am
If we’re talking about Word, I know you can eliminate the AutoFormatting of certain things in preferences, or just go back to “Undo” and it will have “Undo AutoFormat” up there, like a shameful child that knows YOU DON’T WANT THAT FREAKING THING LOOKING LIKE THAT!
Comment by Old Hag — 7/17/2005 @ 12:12 pm
Get a FM modulator and any number of good mp3 players. That’s what I’ve done for my ’91 Volvo.
In some fonts, the apostrophe is a mere vertical line. then there’s no problem.
Comment by Maedhros — 7/19/2005 @ 12:49 am