Brian

Faust is an amazing book and it really hit the spot for the way I was feeling the last few weeks.

post-rock is what classical has had to become to get the attention of a generation who grew up with the world screaming at them

So I was listening to some old Breezeblock sets and found this.

http://www.last.fm/music/Bubba+Sparxxx/_/Back+In+The+Mud

This is what I wish Gnarls Barkley was. Cee-lo is just holding himself back.

http://www.afrotechmods.com

Found this site again today :O)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7688299.stm

I wonder how the reaction to this would be different if not for Gattaca.

So trying Songbird motivated me to set up my foobar to manage my music library. Turns out it was a lot simpler than I thought and only took a little futzing. So now my foobar is set up to everything I can think of wanting from a music player bar one thing (RIP Toaster). Clocking in at 100MB memory usage with the metadata from my entire library loaded into the playlist, less than half of Songbird and without the system and player lag I was having.

johnny smash makes me laugh

I've been watching Songbird for a looooong time hoping it would evolve into something akin to foobar2k but with better library support. This is my semi-annual "Can Songbird Handle My Music Collection And Still Be Responsive?" check. It's still in beta so it's failed all previous ones but it's been getting better every time. This is the first time it's gotten this far into the library importing without freezing so here's hoping.

http://getsongbird.com/

Best way to describe it is Firefox that also plays music. It's built around Firefox code which means it has support for add-ons to do all kinds of neat things.

EDIT: Well it's working for the first time ever. I'm liking it. It's taking up 560MB of RAM versus the 22MB my custom foobar takes so I definitely won't be using it all the time.

Sometimes the colors I see are breath-taking. Driving back from Charlotte...things that stick out.

Rich freshly tilled soil filled with red Carolina clay piled on brilliant green grass
Pink rain clouds as the sun filters through them in the afternoon
Yellow corona of the sun as it's setting behind some denser clouds
Speckled black of a freshly paved road

Glad I'm not completely color-blind. Makes me want a working camera though.

I had a really good time this weekend. Started out pretty awful. Ended up taking 6.5 hours to get from Atlanta back to Charlotte and was exhausted once I got there. The next day was Thanksgiving which I spent with my great-aunt and uncle. My great-uncle has Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and isn't in that great of shape but he seemed worse physically but better mentally than last Thanksgiving. It was sad watching him lose track of what he was trying to say and not be able to function right but at least this time he could recognize that it was happening and make an effort to get past it. It has to be awful since he is an incredibly intelligent person and loved conversation more than most things.

After that it was all uphill. Spent the rest of the weekend with Courtney pretty much, playing Zack and Wiki and Mario Galaxy and just relaxing. I saw Court be more of a girl then I've probably ever seen her be before due to the combined cuteness of Mario Galaxy and Sanrio :D. Plans fell apart Friday and Saturday night but it was all good. Saturday I went up to Boone with Courtney's parents to eat lunch and afterwards played in an L5R tournament with some folks I'd met at another tournament the weekend before. I won and walked away with this and a bunch of booster packs. It was a shame we couldn't stay and chill with the folks up in Boone, they've got an awesome cadre up there and I'll definitely be trying to get back up there sometime. On Sunday we went to see American Gangster with Beth. Been too long since I've seen her, hopefully we'll be able to get together over Christmas break and catch up for real.

After that it was a rainy and dark drive back to Atlanta where I passed out and then started the work routine once more.

OiNK raided.

Kill it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

Oh Hussie, what will you do next?

The last two weekends have been amazing and this next one is shaping up to be the same.

X_X

What could possibly go wrong?

This will be my standard response to this situation. You have been warned.

pink



myspacin' it up



hey guyz

If you have HL2 then play Minerva. Can't wait for the next installment.

So relaxed. Nice to kick your feet up after a tough week.

Been futzing around with my foobar configuration a little bit more. Also apparently it will recognize the media keys on my keyboard without complaining!

foo_toaster for foobar 0.8.3 refused to display properly under Vista so I went ahead and made the jump to 0.9.4 and installed FofR's config. I could get used to this methinks.



Only thing I gots to do is find a good background image.

Plus-side of recently! Under Vista, Print Screen works properly with two monitors. So no more disabling my second monitor to take a snapshot of something.