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{ Monthly Archives }
October 2004
Wow, now this is technology
Ever since my old NCSSM roommate Chethan and I found the wonders of MP3s, I’ve been kind of sporadic on the tagging of my songs. The pain in the ass part was searching for each of the albums, then punching in the track information. I’m a lazy bastard, and I like making the computer work.
Technology to the rescue. Musicbrainz, which I found today, uses some technology that Napster bought back in the day to generate an acoustic fingerprint for the song. Napster hoped to track the songs being shipped around on its network. They ran out of money and ways to fight off the RIAA before they could fully implement this. Musicbrainz then uses that identifier to try and search against its known albums. Its surprisingly accurate, even for some of the rarer electronic music I listen to.
Give it a try, its sweet.
Going to hit Best Buy tomorrow and see if they have any 4g iPods out of the box and on sale. Otherwise, I’ll probably get the HP iPod from buy.com.
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Its over!
The baseball season is over. Yes, the Boston Red Sox broke the curse.
Finally. Now I can wach tv again….
Oh wait, Fox is flooding the airwaves with crap again.
Damn it, at least the Simpsons and South Park are coming back on. That new Comedy Central show Drawn Together looks funny too.
Hopefully you had a chance to stick your head out and notice the eclipse tonight. If you didn’t, and it wasn’t cloudy outside, then you’re a slackass. Its definitely not as cool as a solar eclipse, but its still pretty neat to see. If you missed it or the weather was bad, at least lunar eclipses come pretty frequently. Its those pesky solar ones that are rare.
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@#$@#@#$
Argh, wtf man.
So my Sony MZ-N1 Minidisc player decided to put a foot in the grave. No more recording of songs onto the little guy. He can still play the discs I’ve recorded previously, but now that I can’t record, I’ve got to start looking at other players. Repairing the little trooper is going to cost about $150 from what I can tell. That’s serious cash for a player thats mostly dead now =(
Here comes about $300+ I didn’t intend to spend…
So I looked around, and basically my options are the ever famous Apple iPod, a Rio Karma, an iRiver H120, the Sony NW-HD1,or maybe, if I get really off the wall, a JetAudio iAudio M3.
The iPod is probably the best solution out of all of these. Its got the portability, and although I’m not completely a fan of the interface, its one of the better ones.
The Karma has a seriously short warranty (90 days) for a hard drive based player, and its really thick. Its interface sucks ass too…a little nipple is useful on the Thinkpads, but the nipple on the Karma is crap in comparison.
The iAudio M3 is crazy thin, but its also crazy lacking on the screen department. The remote is really clunky too, not like the spiffy Sony remotes that are basically like really short pens. I would like to grab a hold of this one physically to see how it feels and everything, but no retail stores seem to carry it.
The Sony isn’t too bad in every regard except for the fact that it forces you to use Sony’s ATRAC3 codec, instead of straight up MP3s. I lived with that during my MD phase, but it is kind of a pain in the ass to have to convert my music to MP3 every time I want to put something new on the player. I do like the interface, and its really small. Just not too sure if I want to put up with converting my music to put on a player just to have a Sony. Sony did announce they’re letting MP3s exist natively on their players soon…..but the only player that does that so far has been announced in Europe, and its a little flash player….
The iRiver is awesome feature wise, but I really don’t care for any of its features. Digital in/out is nice, but my expensive ass stereo isn’t expensive enough to have optical ins…integrated amps don’t do that and receivers are for home theater setups, not a solid stereo music setup. Voice recording is cool, but I have a microcassette for that and convergence is bullshit. I’d rather use that little thing instead of writing over a DJ set =P FM radio is pointless with ClearChannel owning the airwaves.
And yes, I’m aware that Dell announced some new MP3 players today. The interface sucks donkey balls. Its as bad as the Creative Nomad series….which is really bad. They are cheap as shit though.
So who knows, now its time to stalk Fatwallet and watch for player deals =)
Nothing much else happened over the weekend. Got a haircut, partied a bit, then relaxed. Bitched at the fact that baseball owned the airwaves again, and moved on. Watched the last Aqua Teen Hunger Force for this season…it was comedy. Hopefully there’ll be another season coming, although there’s no word of another season being purchased by Cartoon Network just yet. Simpsons is coming back in two weeks….once again with the fucking Halloween episode a WEEK after Halloween. Talk about some bullshit.
Eh, life goes on.
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Man vs the Fly
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Google Saves Lives
You know your company is changing the world when terrorists check on Google to make sure your story is legit
Amazing what the Internet can do.
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An amazing interview
John Stewart, of Daily Show fame, was on CNN’s Crossfire the other day. Crossfire, a show where people just sit there and argue, vs the Daily Show, a comedy news show.
Here’s the video from bittorrent:
http://bitflood.org:8080/?file=791b2f5d95a54d1381b85f271b51f71e73964185
Even Salon is talking about it:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/10/15/crossfire/index.html
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Nobel Prize?? Him?
So apparently my old Macroeconomics prof just won the Nobel Prize. I was listening to NPR this morning, and they announced the Nobel winners for Economics. And then this guy’s name comes up
Finn Kydland shared the prize with another Carnegie Mellon related person, who got his PhD at the school. Crazy stuff. Now I can say I’ve been taught by a recent Nobel laureate.
I pity those who have to listen to the acceptance speech. He had a monotone from what I can recall.
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Hrmm, so much for full preservation
Looks like the conversion didn’t preserve the comments in my blog. All well, something is better than nothing. The formatting is a bit jacked too, but the content is there. Its something at least….
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Laziness wins
Due to excessive laziness, I’m now using Serendipity as my blogging software. The stuff I wrote was getting kind of old and stinky, and I was definitely getting behind on updating things for it.
There’s no way I could have done all the neat formatting things that this tool allows me to do, so it was time to get realistic and switch software.
I’ll post a real entry in a day or two…..
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