I don’t really remember what old Sam was saying back in the early days when everyone was piling on Charlie, but this article breaks it down just right.
What The Frig Was That!?!?!
Are you kiddin’ me? I’m not totally buying into the Selig =Fox = Evil, talk radio scenario, but Bud, please, you should have told us! If it can’t end in a rain-shortened game, then TELL US IN ADVANCE. If there’s some transparency, then MLB won’t get treated like the Bush administration.
And tonight, it looks like we’re in for more rain. Lovely…
Could Blogerantz find new life… as a ‘music blog’??
If you look at Dr Fusion and T.U.B.E., each makes reference to a multitude of other ‘music blogs’. Many of them are through Google/Blogger (as is Blogerantz) and the have a pretty uniform, no-nonsense design. As I look at the archive spreadsheet – disc inventory – I wonder if I could put a version of that list online, as an Excel doc, where you could tidily scroll through? I’m picturing a facebook-esq widget or something. I’m sure it could be easily done.
The more important question is, then what? Is everything going to get loaded onto Mpomy.com, as well as going to DVD archive, iPod and iTunes Library? I don’t imagine that there’s that much call for everything on that growing list – not because it’s not good music, but because there simply aren’t that many people passing through Mpomy land. I’d like to keep it that way.
So the plan would be to have some fancy widget or other method to synchronize data entry on Excel with publishing on mpomy.com. I simply refuse to believe that task will prove difficult. The next fun thing is to get into other Excel tools to hide certain selections. Even though the list will only be seen by those with knowledge of mpomy-world, I want to treat the appearance as if the thing were open to the public. The idea, then, is make a permanent link to blogerantz from mpomy, and then to use data entry on Excel to update the mpomy page. If someone makes a request for a certain item, then it would be become ‘available’ (as mp3 only) on blogerantz (via RapidSHare?).
Fun with Excel. I can hardly wait.
Emily’s Reactivated our Flickr Account!!
We let Flickr go dormant for a while, but Emily just reactivated us and she’s uploading a ton of great pictures from the last eight months. Check it out here and enjoy.
So much good music!!!
More Spore – Biilsgipt
Here’s the thing – if I start out as a veg, there’s a lot of food everywhere, but I end up being meek and small. This character is a carnivore, but I’m not thrilled about going around and killing everything I see. That’s not very nice, but it’s the only way to survive.
Glojorim – My Spore Creature
This nice-looking herbivore can sing and dance and has even successfully defended the beach from a hostile predator. So things are going well in Spore-land. the hope is to push evolution as far as possible in the creature stage, because I think the time lapse slows way down and evolution basically ends by the time I get to the Tribe phase. That’s according to what I’ve read.
It’s 9/11
So this link goes here:
Squarepusher – BACK!
Looking more like Simon Pegg than ever!
October 27, 2008
‘Just a Souvenir’
Listen to
- Delta v
at the Warp Label MySpace Page. OH BOY, that sounds good!!!
The Open Jam
There’s something very nice about coming home from work and just going at the guitar and effects with no plan, no agenda, no assignment, no key or time signature. Just plug in and see what happens. Let the music play you, as Fripp says. Last night that worked to good effect. Seeing Liam Finn go to town on the loopers has helped get me excited about this process, but I need to get better at cutting the loop at the right place so that the time signature matches up. Despite his age, Liam is a master at that. You can see for yourself: