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Internet for Dummies, Wednesday 10/18, 3rd Period

The plasma screen in the computer lab is on and showing an episode of Galaxy Quest when the students enter. Abby waves from where she's eating popcorn and watching.

"Good morning! Today we're going to work on finding video's and music on the web." She launched into a description of Youtube, Google Video and iTunes.

"Those are the legal ways to view or get movies. The illegal ones are a lot more fun." Abby grinned. "There are communities and message boards set up where people offer up songs or videos to share. Or you can download a torrent for whatever you're looking for."

"Today you're going to be downloading peer to peer filesharing programs. My personal favorite is Limewire, but you're free to find one of your own. I want to see some illegal downloads before this class is over!"

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All collapsey-like

Briar Moss

Charlie Kawalsky

Angela Chase

Jude Lizowksi

Buffy Summers

Ray Kowalski

Cindy Mackenzie.

Jamie Madrox

Pete Hutter

Evie Carnahan

Door

"Find something on Youtube or Google Video to share with the class."

Kawalsky knew exactly what to look for.

He retrieved The Rabbit of Seville (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTydGEYdVbE).

"It's my favorite Bugs and Elmer sketch."

He also found something that amused him. Brainstem! Brainstem! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7HnKBjz1B4).

Jude~~'s mun~~ strenuously denies that she hums the Barber of Seville everytime she washes hair.

Buffy tried to make this work, yes, indeed.

Jude shared this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0AVpGNhOs&mode=related&search=).

It was kind of giving him an idea . . .

Ray shared this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vjgjzsNFB6Q). Always fun to watch parodies of your favorite movies.

Jamie is rocking out to "Numa Numa".

Mac decided on a commercial (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AafzLbM7GqM) in the end. ~~I pinch, I pinch.~~ Because, cute!

Pete, luckily, did not manage to find anything with tentacles or nearly nude ladies in it. Instead, he was entranced by a couple of guys making geyser art by putting something called a Mentos into something called Diet Coke.

Briar surfed around, trying to find something interesting.

Evie found a cute little animated clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4GqYz4F2h4) set to Egyptian music that made her miss Cairo. Although the mummies weren't authentic.

~~pings in laaate because I did have something I meant to leave, just ack, availability.~~

And now? Door is no longer confused by the Space Battles films.

Downloading things is fun!

Kawalsky had a hard time figuring out how to get the file-sharing program to work. Then he had a hard time finding anything. Once that was out of the way, he managed to start the download for Half-Life 2.

Ray's done this before. He tried Kazaa but warnings started popping up almost immediately so he went with Shareaza. And, after clicking on what he thought was an AC/DC song, he started the song and realized it was Celine Dion.

Damn mislabeled files.

"You're a Celine Dion fan?" Jamie asked looking a little surprised.

"Do I look like one?" Ray snapped and then calmed down. "No, this was supposed to be AC/DC. The file was mislabeled or something."

"Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. Whatever you say."

Mac already has filesharing down to a fine art. She has several programs, but she's actually busy downloading TV shows over IRC, because then you get to chat and share files all at the same time. Yay multitasking.

Pete was rather distracted trying to puzzle out the terminology of downloading and torrents, but perked right up when Abby mentioned the whole illegal part.

"Well, I'm gonna be a natural at this!"

He then proceeded to illegally download something. Several somethings. Mostly trojans, worms, and viruses.

But, hey, at least he got them illegally.

See Briar get very, very, very confused. See Briar turn his screen sideways. ~~A lot like his mun this morning~~ See Briar flail.

Evie flailed for quite a bit, since the word 'illegal' set off all her internal alarms, but finally, she couldn't stand it-- she started downloading the latest Strifenova Celestial using Bittorrent. "We won't get arrested?"

Abby's letting you steal music in class. Do you think she's going to mind if you talk?

"Professor Abby? I wrote up a small report on last week's Caff-Pow challenge," Evie said, handing over a five-page paper. With graphs. She was so proud of herself for figuring out how to make those. "It's not very conclusive, beyond what I told you on Thursday. But I thought you might like a copy."

My poptart got stuck in my toaster. Evil toaster.

Down with toasters.

Oh how I miss poptarts. Alas local supermarkets, why do you no longer stock poptarts? They used to be my staple diet. Woe.

Frakkin' toasters. (http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c188252p16758170.2.html)

*cough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjns-lsMMQ)*

I *still* love that vid. There need to be more Fandom High vids.

*denies possible storyboarding of 'Ever the Same' vid*

The most appropriate song ever for FH.

I wonder how many vids we could generate if we turned it into a competition. Put people against each other and you get better results than bribery!

I like the way you think!

*hums* We were drawn from the weeds, we were brave like soldiers . . .

Great. Now it's never leaving.

It never left in the first place. Once it's there, it never goes away. It just gets very, very quiet until you least expect it.

*twitches at memory of a very, very bad time when the song got stuck in head*

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