Things that go plopp in my kitchen

[yakalskovich]

I almost thought I had ghosts in my kitchen, like fabulous_papaya has in her house.

I sometimes heard a strange "plopp" as if some domestic mishap had occured, but there never was anything.

I was just there when it did it again, and I realised that closed empty plastic bottles beside a warm heating duct will produce the effect every time they can...

In other news: I may be a professional database tamer, but a rank amateur in some private IT applications. If anybody can point me to a site that tells me how to make MP3s from CDs, you shall have some chanting Mount Athos monks soon.

Comments

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

It's not really a technique, but requires encoding software. Go to download.com and look for a freeware MP3 encoder ("ripper").

Here:
http://www.download.com/Rippers-Encoders/3150-2140_4-0.html?tag=dir

Find one that you like the features of, d/l it, and go.

[yakalskovich]

Thank you! I worked!!

Now I yousendited my famous, often-mentioned Mount Athos Monks:
http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=C05F9349A0DC9A944EA256A5512392F5

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Great! Thank you; the monks sound awesome. :)

[yakalskovich]

Yes; that's why I like them so much, too. It's my favourite piece from the CD.

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Plastic bottles? How curious.

Hey, if you live in Germany, where buildings are generally older than they are in California, you've got a much greater chance of ghosts.

Speaking of kitchens, I've just accidentally pushed a bottle of vanilla extract off the top shelf in the kitchen cupboard, it's exploded all over everything, and the whole place smells FANTASTIC.

[yakalskovich]

Urgs! I guess you'll be sick of it after a week or two. If it lingers and lingers and lingers persistently...

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Ah, but! It makes people who come over think I am a culinary genius.

[yakalskovich]

But vanilla is so - vanilla.

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

I think vanilla has a bad name because it's always associated with plainness. But it isn't plain, just subtle. There's a difference.

Anyway, the way our kitchen smelled after Leftover-Chinese Omelette day, I don't much mind having some vanilla whiffage to cover it up. :)

[yakalskovich]

Oh. Now I understand. Leftover whatnot is So Not Good.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*plopp*



































*plopp*

























it's michael schanze, i tell you!

[cpt-tantony.livejournal.com]

Why him, precisely?

Nah, it's the effin' cola bottles from Plus. I should really bring them back.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

and there i was so sure i'd get you rotfling *wibbles*



eins .... zwei oder drei ....

[yakalskovich]

*looks helplessly at pretty references whizzing over her head*

awww, my jokes land wide off the mark :(

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*wibbles more* ok, now i gather you did not have a tv set as a child. because even though we only had one channel, i sure knew "1, 2 oder 3" and wanted so much to take part in that kid's quiz show with michael schanze. i knew all the answers but worried a bit about having to jump from stage to stage and looking horrid on tv.
plopp!

Re: awww, my jokes land wide off the mark :(

[yakalskovich]

Am I too old? Too young? I don't know. I didn't watch much TV as a kid, though. Especially not kiddie TV. I watched Formula 1 races of a Sunday, with my Grandfather.

1, 2 oder 3

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

no, just the right age. i guess you did have more interesting channels *still disbelieving*

Re: 1, 2 oder 3

[yakalskovich]

Well, I sometimes watched "I Dream Of Jeannie" with my mother. And "Sesame Street", later. But not Michael Schanze. I vaguely remember associating some smiling slimy face with that name, but really, no, doesn't ring a bell.