iTunes sparks a long, winding trip down memory lane

Jeeze, I didn’t realize just how much money I’ve spent in iTunes (and on CDs) over the years until I decided to make a “smart playlist” and put every alternative, rock, punk, pop, etc genre I have into it. The thing came out with 3348 songs, and a playing time of 9.3 days.

So, what did I do about it? I put the whole thing on shuffle, and hit play. Its like a radio station with music from the past three decades, a mix of heavy metal, and slower stuff, explicit stuff that couldn’t be played on the radio, and a handful of those old “guilty pleasure” songs you’d never admit you listened to in a million years.

And what else am I doing about it? Using iTunes printing feature to post the whole song list in PDF format right here for the world to see. Yeah, I know, some of the songs on there are inviting ridicule, so sue me, it was a different time when I bought those.

I think it’s pretty fitting that the first song on the list after I hit the shuffle button was the most famous phone number in the world since I haven’t heard that song…

Saturday

Jun 7

Math, etc.

Anyone who knows me probably knows that math isn’t my strongest ability. Actually I tend to think of math as a language of its very own, and like any other language except english I have almost no serviceable ability to use it without some sort of technological assistance. Maybe its the way my mind is wired or the way I learned as a child, but something goes wrong when I try to think in anything other than english.

If you ask me the rules for how to execute a certain procedure I can tell them to you very easily, but when you plug the numbers in and ask me to actually complete that procedure my mind blanks. It was the same thing when I tried to learn German or Spanish or French, I could tell you the rules for conjugating the verbs and all that stuff, but I couldn’t actually do it.

I tend to think in concepts, maybe that has something to do with it. When I read a book or something is explained to me I immediately start having this inner dialogue with myself where I hash out the way I might use it, or what I think it means,…

Thursday

May 8

Quick Blog Update

First of all, let me just apologize for not updating things more consistently. I’m a bit harried and forgetful of the little details (like remembering to blog, or reply to some emails that I flagged “for later today or tomorrow”, oh, say about three weeks ago) right now because I’ve got a bunch of projects that I’m juggling all at once, and suffice it to say, its sort of the perfect storm of anti-focus.

That said, I did get wordpress 2.5 on here a few days ago (thanks to my uber server admin guru dude Kit), and I’m checking out the damage now Obviously the footer area is a bit broken, so pardon the dust until I can get that taken care of. I did make a little change to the settings, so that the front page only shows the most recent post now, and you’ll have to click the nav buttons to go to the older ones. The idea for doing this is that I should (in theory) be updating the footer section more frequently in the future, so I’d like to bring it closer to the top of the page. I’m thinking of having Matt (when he’s got…