March 31, 2007
Random Fubar
As I have mentioned before, having the proper music playing while working is simply a fundamental requirement of producing a tranquil and serene workplace.
For years now I have used Nullsoft's Winamp (which I understand may have recently been purchased by AOL), a half decent media player, sufficient to handle the workload of my MP3 playlist and certainly much more functional than Microsoft's colossally bloated giant; Media Player.
However, there is one thing about Winamp that has always bugged the living daylights out of me, even with the settings maxed out for random song play, it never has truly produced a random song listening experience.
I have fiddled with other media players over the years, but had never come across a player with truly satisfied, until today that is, when I discovered the ultra simple Foobar2000 on a list of 10 top ten freeware downloads linked on Digg.com.
Foobar2000 isn't pretty, or skinable (yet), but it has what counts; an ultra small memory footprint, lots of little add-on goodies to satisfy our inner geek, and truly random play! (Heaven!)
Plus, it is downright polite about creating file associations when you install and doesn't try and take over your entire system like some other media players.
March 30, 2007
Beatnik Coffee House
So I got roped into doing a small performance at a Coffee House evening that the local writers group put on. It was actually fun, with lots of excellent stories and poetry. I was sure what I should read, so I ended up writing the following spoken word type piece, entitled "Spam".
Are you too small? Pills make you larger! Viagra, Cialis, increase your volume, louder, impress your wife, last longer, be harder, less caring, more caring, sensitivity training for adults, love you long time soldier boy.
Too large? Shed pounds! Loose inches! Real Hoodia, See ya, Hydroxycut myself shaving this morning. Drink more water, carbonated water, flavoured water, just add water, bottled water, Evian is naïve, Dasani is coka-kookie at twice the price and all but one of the ingredients, cheese grater, grate on my nerves, high heel stuck in a grate, heel boy, heal thyself.
Need more Energizer bunny keeps going and going and going. Energy Drinks, Full Throttle Jolts Rockstar, Red Bull Chivalry is dead, get women any where, any time, hundreds of singles in your home town, Russian brides at your fingertips, Filipinos flip flirtatious feathers, pleasant mother pheasant pluckers.
Too many bills? Trained councillors will console as you consolidate your corporate conglomeration, Caffeinated Keyboard Kowboys type wild western enigmas, coding, dot dot dash, counting, zero one zero zero, calculating, 404 page not found, herbaceous hepatitis, one shot protects, hole in one, hole in the wall gang, gang bang, chitty chitty bang bang, download, upload, reload, press F7 to load program.
C Colon Backslash, bracket, exclamation ata tilde hat, pound greater than, less than forward slash, gash, bash, cultural whiplash, lick the wax from my moustache.
Real Replica Rolex imported at your leisure suit Larry in the lavish land of lounge lizards, watch the watches witness witless lessons, television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation, radish, dish, disrespecting my home rates have never been lower, mortgage, amortize, realize, actualize, hypnotize, demonize, would you like fries with that?
Corporate stock tips, LPT COM OEM software, adobe acrobat tumbling from windows vista. Check out the view from above, instant wealth, forward to 18 friends in 7 minutes for 30 years of good luck. Get away, get out, inconvenient truth brought to you by the liberal democratic new conservative republican overlords of acid.
Social engineering, sociopath networking, who do you know, what do you know, how do you do, who do you do? Information, disinformation, everything you know is wrong, you are being lied, abuse your illusions, aim higher, AOL Instant Messenger, American Online, join my network, nitpick myspace, get out of my facebook, book travel, cruises, flights, hotels, car rentals, Expedia expedites exhilarating expenditures.
Get your degree now! Six degrees of separation, separate your whites, wash in hot water, wash in cold, stain fighting, fast acting. Ring around the rosey collar is a thing of the past. Retrofit, retroactive, stay active, stay fit, one hundred calories pack my suitcase, file my case, hear my case, get off my case, the case is before the courts, the judge adjudicates jurors without prejudice.
Tune in, Tune out, Turn off, stay tuned for the next episode, next time on as the world turns by the guiding light of the days of our lives all my children are young and restless and will only have one life to live due to the passions of the general hospital staff, distaff, distil, destroy, staph infection, Staphylococcus caucus contains cocoons, Cancun, saloon, beyond Rangoon, Gorilla Monsoon, contagious coughs, latest, greatest, most fulfilling, rewarding, happiness is just a phone call away. Supplies are limited! Act now! All for one low price! Free shipping!
Paranoid, Humanoid, Philip K. Dick Android, Constipate, Emancipate, Liberate, Revaluate!
Spam, the medium of the message, is the message, is the medium, is us, spam.
March 27, 2007
Bacon Sandwich
I stumbled on this really cool t-shirt by the creator of the webcomic "South of Sanity".
With the all the rough times that smokers have been through of lately, I think we should all show them our support by wearing Radec's narfy cool "I Like Smokers…" Tee!
March 18, 2007
Super Monkey Kick Off Challenge
Well, I'm heading out of town for the next week or so. In the meantime, feel free to try and beat my Monkey Kick Off High Score!
March 10, 2007
Just Too Darn Predictable
My guess is that the only thing that kept my score from being 100% was the fact that I was using IE and Windblows! (LOL)
March 9, 2007
Mini Etsy
Etsy has just added a cool feature called "Mini Etsy", which, much like flickr's image badges, allows sellers to add mini galleries of their items, linked back to Etsy for easy browsing, to their own personal webpages and blogs.
So far I'm fairly impressed, setup was much easier than a flickr image badge, however, it would be nice to be able to change the background colour of the mini gallery and I wish that it was actually drawing random items from my gallery each time the page was loaded, not just once, oh well, I'm sure they're working on!
I'm not sure if I like this version, without prices:
Or this version with prices:
What do you think? Do prices and descriptions scare off potential customers before they even have the chance to visit my Etsy Store or do they help encourage further investigation?
June 2010
