The owner of nuclearelephant.com has started a project to show positive impacts of filesharing by providing a database for people to log things that they have purchased (CD, DVD, software, etc) that they would not have purchased if they hadn’t checked it out first through filesharing. Add your submission to the database.
“WHERE THE FUCK ARE ALL THE BALLOONS?!”
The “Songs Not Yet Played” is a smart playlist set with songs played zero times (obviously). I haven’t played around with Yaeka’s iPod in a while, but I’m pretty sure all those playlists transfer over to the iPod. Also, the rating question is one Yaeka and I had back in Tacoma. I’m pretty sure we found that the ratings did transfer back to iTunes from the iPod, but further testing needs to be done to be sure.
Gary had asked what I have been listening to recently. Mainly I’ve just been trying to reduce the number of songs “Not Yet Played” in iTunes which is now at 2,422 which is a great number less than it was at a little over 2 weeks ago (about 3,500). Other than that I mainly just listen to whatever I should be reviewing and also KEXP the local independent station. You can check it out streaming online. They also have the past 2 weeks of shows archived as well.
Anyway, I ordered a bunch of shit from insound the other day so here’s a list of what I should be checking out soon.
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (White Label 12″)
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (In LP format - Baby Blue Ltd Edition)
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
The Race - If You Can (will be reviewing soon)
Young People - The Single 12″
Also insound failed to mail some stuff so I don’t have the new Fiery Furnaces yet, but hopefully it’ll be here soon. It seems as though most of the stuff they played last fall in Seattle was stuff from the new album so I’m looking forward to it.
This isn’t a real post. This is just a list of books I had written down on a piece of paper that I want to throw away.
0970175620 The GMAT Advantage w/ Professor Dave by David Scalise
0844264539 How to Get into the Right Business School by James L. Strachan
0312300867 Business School Confidential by Robert H. Miller
0071382003 Entrepreneurial Management by Robert J. Calvin
0875846688 The New Deal at Work by Peter Cappelli
095418792X Ace the GMAT by Brendon Royal
0415253241 Business: The Key Concepts by Mark Vernon
So Yaeka’s been gone since Tuesday visiting peeps in upstate NY and one of my latest ways to waste time has been to go to Barnes & Noble and get some coffee and browse around. Well let me tell you something, going to a Barnes & Noble located next to a movie theater is a bad idea. Fucking junior high kids running around all over the place being loud and obnoxious and stupid. It’s a bookstore. Go look at books. Please don’t wander around where I’m at talking about how cool those punk kids look and how hot they are and you know they’re the cool punk kids because they’re all in black and you’re all like “ooh, yummy”. Go hang out in the cafe or something. WHERE ARE YOU PARENTS?!!!
Have you checked out allmusic.com lately? They’ve finally given the site a long overdue facelift — I’m pretty sure the yellow look had been in place before I even started college in 1998. The new layout is nice in that it separates the information out in a more reasonable way. I always hated how in the old design you had to scroll all the way down and these tabs really help the functionality.
There’s also this registration thing going on now. I haven’t really figured out what addition things you get by registering, but I’m not really into that. Anyway, point is it’s about time this site got an update considering it is owned by the country’s largest onestop.
Phill and I pick up an organic farm share every friday and last week happened to be peak raspberry week. We ended up with an entire flat of raspberries. Not knowing what to do with so many raspberries I decieded to make jam. I found a fabulous recipe in my “how to be a domestic goddess” by Nigella Lawson book. It was so simple and didn’t even use pectin. All I had to do was put two cups of sugar in a pie tin and two cups of raspberries in another tin, stick it in the oven for 20 min and then mix them together. It was amazing how beautifully it melted together into a perfect jam.
That took care of 2 of the 12 pints of raspberries. I ended up freezing half the flat, eating two pints, and then used another two in lime and raspberry muffins…also a nigella lawson recipe. Nigella LAwson and raspberries are both delightful.
I recently discovered ReadyMade, a DIY crafts/art/projects/ideas magazine, which has inspired me to start making and creating stuff again. I have also come across another website called Cut and Paste which is also an interesting forum for DIY projects. There are a ton of links to other people’s crafy DIY websites. It was really exciting to find all of these links and magazines however the more time I spent looking at everyone’s website I realized everyone is making the same stuff and none of it looks very original. Which made me think, how sad, since it seems that in part the essesence of wanting to make your own stuff is to make it individualized and your own. It seems that much of the stuff HAS to look like its a DIY project otherwise its not cool. A sort of “crappy” but cool sort of look, like a little kid designed it and sewed it together. I have to admit that I like that look but everyone is making the same damn vinyl wallet/guitar strap/belt/accesorties with stars or whatever. how lame!
Kevin Rose has another excellent free deal for software on his blog here. It includes SUSE LINUX server as well as SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional. Just check his blog for the details as I want to give credit where credit is due.