so, my neuros mp3 player has this feature called HiSi, which is supposed to be able to identify a recording from the radio or from the external mic on the player…

HiSi – Hear It! Save It!
A new song catches your ear on the radio. You love it, but you can’t count on getting the song title and artist from the DJ. Rely instead on Neuros and its’ HiSi feature. Record a 30 second sample of the mystery song to your Neuros from any input source (the internal FM Radio, internal microphone or line input) by pressing the orange button. Neuros records directly to MP3 format. Next time you synchronize with your PC, Neuros matches the “digital fingerprint” you’ve recorded to a proprietary online audio database and provides you with the title and artist of the song. This information is sent directly to your Neuros and is also stored in your Neuros Synchronization Manager PC application. The audio fingerprint technology that enables the HiSi feature is provided by Relatable.

anyway, as i pull into my garage the other day, i grab my neuros from my center console, and notice its been recording a HiSi clip…i didn’t really think anything of it, must have forgot to lock the buttons on it…well, today i’m adding more music to my neuros, and i notice when its done that it attempted to match the HiSi clip i’d accidentally recorded that day…according to their “proprietary online audio database”, weird road noise in my car sounds somewhat like Elton John’s “The One”…now, i’ve never actually heard that song myself, so it is possible…hopefully the RIAA doesn’t come knocking on my door for recording an unauthorized remix of a timeless classic…

Hear my remix for yourself

basically, i love logging referers to my site…it provides entertainment when i have nothing else going on…my site has only been up for about a month, and already i have some pretty good ones…check em out:

http://www.google.com/search?q=who+birthday+is+on+feb+5+who+is+famous

http://www.google.com/search?q=famous+space+guys

http://www.google.com/search?q=email+contact+Leeper+s+2004

if you have a site, and log your referers, post some of your more interesting ones…haha, this is great

i’ve just realized that i’m in the wrong business entirely…although the money isn’t bad in programming/web design, it seems the real money is to be made in appliance repair…

for instance, my furnance began acting funny a couple months ago, and since i have absolutely no idea how to fix a furnance, i called someone to come look at it…i was told that they had a $72 visit charge, and would be charged something like $50 an hour after the first half-hour…so, the guy comes, looks around, talks on his cell phone, and replaces some part in about 15 minutes…now, i had to pay this guy $72, and he basically talked on his cell phone the whole time…

now to my current problem…my washer decided to quit yesterday, so again, i had to call someone to come out ($59 visit charge)…the guy is here 10 minutes, and basically tells me that its going to be about $500 to fix my washer and dryer (its kind of noisy too)…this seems stupid to me, so i decided just to buy a whole new washer/dryer set for not a whole lot more than what it was going to cost me to fix it…basically, the moral of the story is this: forget what you see on tv and movies about the fast-paced, exciting life of programmers…become an appliance repairman