February 2009 Archives

it's been a little whirlwind for awhile.

staying at my brothers to dustins to best western to steves.... and now...

i'm moving in with tarrah and her daughter. she's a friend i've known for a while now, she's got a house and has a room to rent. should be interesting as i've never spent a lot of time around a kid. had em around here and there on weekends and whatnot, but not full time. even with the nephew he's only around a few hours at a time (btw, have a niece on the way this spring, oh my!)

anyhow her daughter likes spongebob and godzilla, so that's good, heheee

internet situation is questionable, the place is in a dead zone. no cable modem, no dsl. oddly there are a few 1 bar wifi blips. maybe time for a cantenna and wepcrack? (one was the default linksys SSID, i didnt mess with it though yet).... right now she uses a cellular broadband card, but i know there's always a cap on those, so have to see how that goes.

they have 2 cats and a rabbit, we'll see what booger makes of the rabbit. that oughta be interesting? the cats are pretty cool, the rabbit is pretty skittish. it'll be sweet to have booger around again, though i suspect my brother wants to catnap her!!

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!!!!EDIT, here's an article refuting the whole thing.....!!!!! still kids be careful out there.....

did last.fm give up your info to the RIAA????

That leaked U2 album is causing all sorts of trouble. The unreleased album, which is due out on March 3, found its way onto BitTorrent and was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. That, apparently, sent music industry lawyers over at the Recording Industry Association of America into a fit. As a result, word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user's listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA. According to a tip we received:

I heard from an irate friend who works at CBS that last.fm recently provided the RIAA with a giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks. As word spread numerous employees at last.fm were up in arms because the data collected (a) can be used to identify individuals and (b) will likely be shared with 3rd parties that have relationships with the RIAA.

(see full article for the rest)

can't say much about it, i mean our profiles are public info and anyone can peruse what we're playing and look at our charts. but to wholesale turn over the info? ouch. might have to turn off the scrobbler for now.....

waaaannnnntttttt!

hmmmm crap, the onion embed code doesnt work....

clicky here for the amazing news!!!!!

is it bad things or good things that come in threes? lets look at the past week or so....

step dad had been diagnosed a lil bit back with emphysema and is in the hospital now for breathing trouble. eh we had our bad history, but i let it go.

mums at the hospital visiting him and gets a nasty nosebleed after leaving the hospital last night. today, she has 260/150 blood pressure and they thought stroke. nitroglycerin has her levelled off and she's home now.

dad i find out has cancer. again.

wait i forgot there's a 4th bad thing. my sister is expecting another turdling in april or may, but has been stressed and is on bed rest.

i think my brother is going to snap because he's gearing up to move and has been dealing with all of that. so now i'm waiting for a call that he's gone bat shit crazy.

right now me and the nephew are the only sane healthy ones. how sane and healthy i am is a matter of debate. and i wonder about the nephews sanity. its more of this spaz thing, i'm sure in 20 or so years he'll outgrow it.

i can remember the most obscure trivia about bands from when i was in high school and college. i can remember the lyrics to songs i haven't heard forever. i could probably pick up a geeter and wing my way through some even. but alot of the music i hear out nowaday i couldn't tell you who produced it or anything about them. i seem so distant from the music any more. has music become this mass produced commodity that isn't worth knowing about?

i blame the dj, i blame the ipod generation, i blame bittorrent. problem is, of course, i am all of those. so i guess i have to blame myself. hell some of the records i own i only can ID them by the color of the label or the picture on it.

gone are the days of album art to draw you in... to make you pick up that album, flip it over, see who the band members are. read some lyrics. find out what city they are from, what label they're on. tapes were awful, tiny art and unfolded to have tiny lyrics printed inside. cds were a little better, back to the square art format and had a booklet that was readable. and way more info than on a record jacket. at least i never had to deal with reel-to-reel or 8-track!!

now we just forgo the whole concept and get to the meat of things and just "find" the music. no more, no less. just the almighty mp3. no longer do we have to search though bins and the back pages of

i've been trying to make more of an effort to read about artists in the last.fm program. songbird has mashtape which pulls info, pictures, and videos into a panel which is pretty neat. songbird has problems right now pulling songs from my itunes. bah humbug. hopefully songbird gets sorted out, because itunes sucks, and i can't stop using it. it's like a bad addiction that you know you would be better off without, but just can't stop. ... just one fix. all i need is just one fix.

it's not windows 7, nor is it the mojave experiment. it's linux! hell one guy said it looked like a mac?? hahaha

goes to show how much some people have no idea what they're clicking on really is.

i have been judged.... and to hell i shall go!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

so i took a propaganda quiz on a web site to get free software, they're actually asking me to snail a form to them that i sign. looks like W-9 stuff for tax crap, pretty standard stuff..... but at the bottom there is this lovely legalese...

I agree and hold (megacorp) together with their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, licensees and assigns harmless against all and any liability for personal injury, death, hijacking, kidnapping or other injury or accident beyond their control and resulting from acceptance and utilization of the gift / prize sponsored in the Promotion.

should i be fearing for my life if i send this in?

seriously its just software.

and another fun one

t.A.T.u. - "robot" + vandread = AMV ... (oddly finding this AMV has nothing to do with going to ohayocon this past weekend)