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sorry, didn't turn off the "yell" key

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The nu-code wouldn't be so bad if I could do download a Firefox extension that made it as easy as the BBCodeXtra thing (where you highlight, right-click and then do things like make a link, italics, image, etc.). Seriously, the link code is about as bass-ackwards as anything I've ever seen.

It might be passe by now, but I'm still inclined to curse you-know-who every time I have to use nu-code.

― Jesse, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

(I know, I know, there were weaknesses in the old ILX that could have been exploited by anyone with the know-how to do so, and it needed to be fixed anyway, but still, he is kind of the king of the sort of people who would exploit the weaknesses, and therefore deserves a short curse everytime I have to go through a few extra steps to create a simple link.)

― Jesse, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I don't know who.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope you don't mean Jon Williams.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, by the way, while I'm busy cursing things, I would like to CURSE THE FUCK OUT OF iTUNES.

Hey iTunes: fuck you for erasing all instances of The Strokes from my hard drive!

I was importing 3 discs to the library (File--Import Folder--Strokes, just as I have done a million times before) and they didn't show up. Now they are NOWHERE on my computer, including the recycle bin. Completely gone!

[/FU-iTunes]

― Jesse, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

lol at ppl not knowing how to use their machines.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry jesse, but itunes does not erase files unless you tell it to.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I told you exactly what I did. I've used iTunes before, and this has not happened.

It was kind enough to leave behind the artwork for the 3 albums I had though.

Anyway, if I had somehow blacked out and made iTunes erase my files, they would be in the recycle bin. A thorough search of my internal and external HDs has revealed no trace of the music files.

― Jesse, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

here's my thing with iTunes: it's better. But it has problems. Namely: 1) it's processor intensive; 2) it's memory intensive; 3) it acts like a Mac. If you don't know how to use a Mac already, iTunes will seem alien to you, even if what it does is designed to be very simple and straightforward. And it actually IS simple, really, if Mac has colonized your brain already, as it has mine. iTunes does not fit very well into PC Land. In Mac World, you tag and organize everything en masse, and you keep up with it, or ELSE. Or else you have a great big mess of files with no direction in life. Mac's easier, but it's also more authoritative, and a lot of PC users resent that. They want to tag everything the way THEY want it. Which is what I meant the other day when I mentioned how assigning yourself administrative duties re: your music collection was the realm of giant nerds.Who really WANTS to do that?

Everything else is just not being used to it.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And if your computer truly makes files disappear, you prolly need a new computer.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Try foobar2000. Or MusikCube. Or Media Monkey.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

boy was that post contradictory. "mac is easier because it makes you organize things, which makes you not have to work to organize things, which makes it easier than a PC."

It's madness, but it's SO TRUE.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

All of which I have tried, but don't like for one reason or another. MusikCube and foobar are okay if you want something really stripped down. Can't vouch for how well ipod intergration is though.

I've been having trouble with Winamp lately, the new version doesn't like my Last.FM plugin. If I have it enabled, it throws my cpu up to 100%. That is odd.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

shut up jeff. You're just going to have to explain how to install and use more and more software. Which then gets right back to my lol at not knowing how to use a computer.

IF YOU WANT EASY, USE A MAC.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, what Kenan said. But then he is going to be your helpdesk for a mac, since I haven't used one in a couple of years.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

What I would like, is for more people to use the Album Artist tag. It's useful when tagging compilations. So you could put Michael Mayer for the Album Artist, and then the individual artists for the Artist tag.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

after initial setup, my helpdesk will resemble that of the maytag repairman.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

What I need to tag on my music: Genre and Year.

I've got every thing else nicely tagged, but I always get pissed off when going through and trying to determine genre. Years I can do though, it will just take time.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I know right what you mean. I have comps from you, actually, that I have retagged exactly like what what you're talking about.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT in iTunes, if you have a comp, like, say, Kompakt Total 4, you just tag it as a comp, and it's automatically refiled into your compilations folder under the album title instead of by artrist.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

How does it display on your ipod? I know you use playlists, but if you are just going through to the artist.

That's the one thing I hate about my zen micro, I want to be able to go through album artist instead of just artists.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I finished taking the MPRE. Now (assuming I pass) all I have to do is graduate and take and pass the bar and then I can be an attorney.

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

What? No running the gauntlet? No "unblinking eye"?

― dan m, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince doing Just My Imagination: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qqx0f9

― Jordan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Good job Jenny!!!

I've been hanging around the Damen/Milwaukee/North clusterfuck, and I can tell you that the hipsters are officially out of hibernation.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I allllmost went to Filter after my test but then decided I couldn't cope with the hipsters so I went home and ate ice cream instead.

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Thanks, Nick!

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at Filter drinking a frozen mocha thing, reading and people-watching. We could have hung out.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 March 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

:'-(

― Jenny, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(=T.T=)

― Jenny, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I was there for a few hours today too! I walked to my gym from the Western stop because the trains were backed up and waiting ~25 minutes to go one stop down the line. Afterwards I went to Sultan's which was packed as hell and then rode the Milwaukee bus back home.

― dan m, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

And if your computer truly makes files disappear, you prolly need a new computer.

I've been thinking this for a while: that argument doesn't make much sense, unless you're coming from the standpoint of iTunes' infallibility.

What I think happened is that because these files were in .wma format, iTunes took it upon itself to make convert them to AAC (as is its wont), and during the conversion something went awry and then they went away.

And then tonight my iPod froze. Would do absolutely nothing until the battery wore down. It seems OK now. Prolly because I don't have a Mac.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe a trip to the Genius Bar is in order??

― dan m, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The correct time is 9:34 A.M.

It's taken me a while to establish this.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought an alarm clock that automatically updates for DST, but I thought maybe that since DST was early this year, it might not know. Then that cast doubt on all other clocks, except for the analog clock on the wall that tells me that it is 8:35.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"Some douche is throwing eggs on the train."

-Text message from Courtney this morning as she is headed to the South Side Parade.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently there was a guy throwing hard-boiled eggs at the ceiling on the train.

Also
RIP Jesse's iPod
Fall 2004-March 2007

:( Can't afford new player. Maybe I'll take it to the Genius Bar. If that doesn't work, I will start saving my pennies and thinking about next steps.

Maybe this guy.
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/sc/31632697-2-300-overview-1.gif

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

did you try this?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705

Take it to the apple store and tell them it sucks.

― Jeff, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000AOMAT0/ref=nosim/?tag=jc0c-20

― Jeff, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

So I have to go to a birthday party late afternoon, so I think I'll show up instrument-less today and try to do something with what's there. I'm guessing if we're tracking and not just playing a song together live I could use whatever's there.

― Eazy, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to bring a mini keyboard, kazoo, slide whistle, recorder, clarinet, melodica, etc. -- so there will be stuff for you to play with.

― jaymc, Sunday, 11 March 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love living close to the lake. Our walk today.

― Jeff, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000AOMAT0/ref=nosim/?tag=jc0c-20

Thanks. This did the trick.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny-- I love you. Thank you. Youtube how we know God loves us.

There is a link on this page to a guy doing a comparative tasting of Thunderbird, Boone's Strawberry Hill, Riunite Lambrusco, and Franzia box wine.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Boone's rated highest (least lowest). Then T-bird, Franzia, and a distant 4th least-worst: Riunite Lambrusco.

He made a mistake though--it's Riunite ON ICE that is so nice.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I listened to the results of CHILX All-Star Jam #1 last night and they sounded a lot better than they thought they would. The recording sounds kind of fucked up but in a cool way - the drums and the keyboard are distorted but nice and fuzzy and analog. The take of the actual song is good, but I'm also pretty happy with the two "jams" I recorded. I'll put them online this afternoon/evening so people can hear what we've got going so far.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we have a new thread?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago: Will There Be Food on the Southside?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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