Daily Quotes and Such
Feb. 9th, 2010 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienaut So remember Aberdeen (Washington)? Well my erstwhile boat and captain are still there, as the boat goes through major overhauls.
From Facebag, my captain's status and some comments that particularly highlight Aberdeen:
Jeremiah Gempler filled out another police report today. If you say Aberdeen is boring..... well... you've never been to Aberdeen.
Someone A: Did the guy living under the half-a-fiberglass boat go ballistic and start whacking the fishermen with a stick or something?
Someone B: Things to do in Aberdeen:
1) Visit the Lady Washington!
2) Fill out police reports?
Someone C: 3) The official pastime: tweakerspotting
Someone D: is that guy under the stairs still live there with his 3 viscious dogs?
Someone E: Aberdeen is such an interesting place![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
i_id: You know we need details here.
Jeremiah: two weeks ago I witnessed a dramaticaly slothy bar fight and had to fill out a report and today I chased down a shoplifter out of home depot with my car and help pin him down w/ an off duty cop while talking to dispatch w/ my bluetooth headset...fun times... nothing makes your monday better than ruining someone eleses.
So yeah, that's Aberdeen. (okay, so, link added :D )
Meanwhile, todays quotes from the bee cave!
Dave: We have a documentary film crew here tomorrow so... can we try to get the toilet paper on the fucking roller???
Bob: Um, I dunno, that's pretty complicated...
...
Later we realize there is NOT, in fact, a roller for the TP in the bathroom. (which actually moves the issue from the category of "simple things we can't handle" to "some kind of harebrained project, so of course we'll do it!" and Ryan set about installing one.
Amy (Office Manager): So Dave said we should split these tomatoes he brought from his garden, [and with a look of excitement] do you know how to make [something cooking related]
Me: I don't know shit about cooking tomatoes!
Amy: Do you... like tomatoes?
Me: [cheerfully] No I fucking hate tomatoes!
Amy: So... why are you taking half?
Me: To spite you! :D
[awkward silence]
Me: Just kidding! My parents like tomatoes!
Pandora
So I've been using Pandora.com to listen to music. After about 40 hours a month it cuts you off and says you need to either pay $36 for year long access or 99 cents a month. Why would I pay $3 a month when I can pay 0.99 month?? There's some really silly special benefits like oooh customize the background. Am I missing something?
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Date: 2010-02-09 08:07 pm (UTC)(You could always create a second account for free but I didn't tell you that. Mum's the word.)
Also, I literally laughed out loud at "To spite you!" :)
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:13 pm (UTC)What documentary? Is he going to be on National Geographic again?
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:20 pm (UTC)But today Terry left fot Seattle. Dave is trying to figure out how to ship his van to him
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:27 pm (UTC)And some German film crew. See here and "more than honey" here about 60% of the way down the page. I wasn't terribly impressed with their use of the apocryphal einstein quote and informed them of this error in our first correspondence. (:
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:44 pm (UTC)There's Plenty of Free Legal Music Out There ...
Date: 2010-02-09 10:00 pm (UTC)The Internet Archive hosts a service where artists who are willing to allow live recordings of their music to be shared for free. It started as kind of a "Grateful Dead related" site, but they've branched out to the point where they now include something like 6,000 different artists. There's a smattering of relatively-well-known artists (e.g., Smashing Pumpkins, the Supersuckers, Ween, Robyn Hitchcock, etc.) plus tons of people who you've probably never heard of, but are often worth checking out (e.g., "Whitey Morgan and the 78s" if you enjoy country, or "Those Legendary Shack Shakers" for frentic rockabilly.) It's all live recordings, but they've got MP3 samples so you can check out stuff before you go to the trouble of downloading. The archive is at:
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmetadata%2Fcreator
The Dimeadozen and Zomb torrent trackers are two etree related sites that also offer non-copyrighted, live recordings of just about any artist you can think of (except for a few who have opted out).
Some of the recordings are excellent, live soundboard recordings that bands recorded for their own benefit, but then they somehow slipped out into the trading community. Sometimes you'll find complete, unreleased albums (e.g., I found an incredible Steve Albini produced version of Cheap Trick's "In Color" album.) Some of them are concerts recorded off of live FM broadcasts. Some of them are audience "stealth" recordings, which range from downright awful to surprisingly good.
Dime and Zomb both require a sign-up procedure, but they're both free of virii and malware (as far as I've seen) and you can usually get on within a couple of days or so after registering, and they're at:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/index.php
http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com/browse-a.php
(Note however that the music on these torrent trackers is in lossless, FLAC format, which requires a flac decoder such as Flac Front End, in order to listen to them.)
As you might have noticed, I'm rather fanatic about this sort of thing; the last time I counted, I had about 1,500 CDs full of live, bootleg recordings.
Re: There's Plenty of Free Legal Music Out There ...
Date: 2010-02-09 10:05 pm (UTC)If you're curious about my taste in music this is my pandora profile
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Date: 2010-02-09 10:26 pm (UTC)After a brief look at your pandora profile, I didn't see any artists that are hosted at archive.org, but I bet you could find them on Zomb or dime. Finding great bands that you've never heard before at archive.org is a bit like searching for a needle in a haystack; there are a lot of very amateurish, local bands in their line up, but there are just enough really great unknown bands mixed in to make searching worthwhile.
I've found some incredible, historically-important things on Dime and Zomb, including: a ten disk series of old "Grand Ole Opry" recordings from the 40s, 50s and 60s, complete live recordings of bluegrass festivals, a five disk set of unreleased Led Zeppelin studio demos and roughs, old 1920s "Edison Cylinder" recordings of jazz bands (copyright has expired), extensive collections of live appearances on various BBC radio shows, and there's also some guy who releases these multi-disk recordings of the Northwest Folklife Festival every year too.
I better shut up now, before I start sounding like "Reverand Bootleg", preaching a sermon.
Re: There's Plenty of Free Legal Music Out There ...
Date: 2010-02-09 10:49 pm (UTC)Below is a list of free FLAC players. There are many quality audio players for you to choose from. Each has its owns strengths. Since choosing an audio player depends on personal taste, feel free to try/download all of them to find which one is the "best fit" for you. All of the below players natively support playback of FLAC files. Some also support a native FLAC encoder to create files also.
Winamp - a very popular free audio player that now supports FLAC playback and encoding.
VUPlayer - a compact audio player that supports transcoding and playback of a wide assortment of audio formats.
Foobar2000 - supports a wide variety of audio formats, options and also transcoding with external encoders. Great for audiophiles!
COG Player (for Mac OS X) - great small audio player for Mac OS X (Macintosh).
VLC Media Player - open source media player that supports many platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).
SongBird - new streaming media player with a lot of features. Still in development, buts looks very promising.
Re: There's Plenty of Free Legal Music Out There ...
Date: 2010-02-09 11:42 pm (UTC)It's always nice to hear that I'm not the only audio-trading nut out there; somehow, it makes me feel less obsessive.
Some of my favorite audio-processing tools include Audacity, Trader's Little Helper, Exact Audio Copy and good old Nero Wav Editor.
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Date: 2010-02-10 07:14 am (UTC)at least you have toilet paper! In my folks house the toilet upstairs doesn't always have that! You're already one step ahead of them :op just don't forget to have someone sitting on the pan and reaching out for bog roll before you fix it so it's in the optimum paper grabbing position ;op
pandora does round a little confused with it's offer, maybe the business idea is that people always assume it's cheaper for a year - then charge them more in the hope they don't notice. . . .
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Date: 2010-02-10 07:28 am (UTC)AND I still need to call that girl I met in the hotel lobby there. Odds that she won't have the slightest memory as to who I am? 80%?
at least you have toilet paper! In my folks house the toilet upstairs doesn't always have that! You're already one step ahead of them :op just don't forget to have someone sitting on the pan and reaching out for bog roll before you fix it so it's in the optimum paper grabbing position ;op
Nothing worse than realizing AFTER you've done your business that there's no TP. 1000 times worse than "got milk."
Also this reminds me I was going to work in a reference to "guess we now need to make a totally unnecessarily complicated steam powered machine to dispense TP"
pandora does round a little confused with it's offer, maybe the business idea is that people always assume it's cheaper for a year - then charge them more in the hope they don't notice. . . .
People do that you know! I've always thought it would be funny to have a restaurant and ahve a "sucker burger" or something, well maybe a bit more subtle of a name, that is more expensive than the sum of its parts.
I try to pay attention because sometimes restaurants really do have bad deals like that. At a favourite place of mine for taco tuesdays, margaritas are $2 for 12oz or $4 for 20oz!
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Date: 2010-02-10 01:47 pm (UTC)I dunno, it really depends on how good an impression you made ;o)
exactly! so you've got it easy my friend, at least you know you'll have the tools for a good wipe. You should make a machine anyway, just to waste time and to look good ;o)
that is an excellent idea, and I bet if you give it a fancy name you'd sell lots! (instead of sucker burger....). It's not just in restaurants though, supermarkets do it with special offers on certain sizes of products and I'm not sure they realise.
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