Wow, there’s really not much better than spending an entire Saturday in the office is there. No, I thought not. At least I had one thing going for me making it somewhat bearable. That would be SLIMP3. Recently (thanks to eMusic) my mp3 collection swelled beyond the limits of my 20GB Nomad3 player. Since I’m somewhat obsessive about having access to my entire collection at once the obvious solution was to switch to streaming for getting my music at work. (Sticking an 80GB drive in the Nomad will probably follow at some point, unless I replace it with an iPod.) I’ve got to say, I’ve been nothing but impressed with SlimP3. It’s got a nice customizable web interface, it seems to be solid as a rock thus far, and it seems like it would be easy to extend its functionality with perl plugins.
Monthly Archive for September, 2003
Best idea I’ve gotten from Metafilter in a while:
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(Orginally posted on 9/23 but for some reason blogger wouldn’t let me publish all week. I keep thinking about making the switch to Movable Type …)
This has been one of the more entertaining weekends I’ve had in a while. Friday night Jolayne and I went down to The Beast haunted house and I screamed like a little girl. I’d never really been to any kind of haunted house before and always thought they were a little lame, but this was a lot of fun. It took up an entire four story warehouse and was pretty elaborate over all. On Saturday we headed down to the Plaza Art Fair to check out some really cool (and a lot of really expensive) art. Saw some good stuff there, but nothing that I could really justify forking over a chunk of cash for. I’m such a philistine. Then to round out a day full of culture we made it the Unicorn Theatre just in time to see their performance of the play “Lobby Hero”, which was very enjoyable. I’ve never really been into theatre too much but the play was fairly humorous at times and well acted also, so it was a good time.
Wow, where did the last month go? It’s just flown by, I think in a large part due to the fact that Jolayne is out here now! She’s been here since the middle of August and that’s been really, really great She’s staying with her aunt and uncle on the other side of town, but that’s much much better than 700 miles away. About a week after she came out, we went over to St. Louis to see Radiohead, which was awesome even though we were about 20 miles away in the lawn seating. My parents came out to visit for the first time the week after that, but other than that I’ve pretty much just been working a lot. Oh yeah, and then there was the cat that I had for about 3 days. Jolayne found a cat that had been abandoned in a cardboard animal carrier and it stayed at my place while we tried to find it a shelter that wouldn’t put it to sleep eventually. The thing was, the cat liked Jolayne but would always hiss at me so I was pretty glad when we found him a temporary home at the Friends of Liberty Animal Shelter. We were relieved to find a “no-kill” shelter that would take cats since most were too full. So yeah, that pretty much brings everything up to date.
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