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I woke up a few days ago to hear the news on the radio - which, even when you kind of expect it, is pretty much exactly like waking up with a disembodied newsreader - saying, I kid you not, "Get ready to see more 80-year-olds on MySpace." Presumably, pretending to be 45-year-olds pretending to be 16-year-olds pretending to be 18-year-olds pretending to be porn stars.
The report was more about improving Interthingy access for older people. I'm uncertain as to what octogenarian Intarwebbertubernets1 might actually lead to, though - membership explosions in knitting communities? Squabbles over who's left the good icons in the will? pro_arthritis? Sockpuppet flamewars in an attempt to off that annoying Mr. Patterson with the bad heart across the hallway?
Or, most likely, no appreciable change from the Interwhatever2 that we know and love.
In other Internargles3-related nonsense, Limewire seems to think that Mozart composed Pachelbel's Canon, Für Elise, O Fortuna and Greensleeves. This may explain the amount of missing and/or wrong information attached to my MP3s, and why I'm slowly going through to make it all right.
And, probably, to decide whether things should stay. Coldplay is a valuable example of this - for all but one or two of their songs, I think something like why is this here? I skip all of these after about 20 seconds. Invariably, the answer is that I like the intros, with the worst part of a Coldplay intro being that it's stuck to a Coldplay song.
(...and Winamp's on 'repeat this track'. No wonder it seems to be randomly picking this song so often. *fixes it*)
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riverchild has been posting music quizzes with the intros snipped off the songs, and then posted for people to guess. I'm tempted to steal abduct borrow this idea at some point, like an Internet-based gluten-free approach to bread and circuses.
And lastly, because this seems to have devolved into a post about musicythings: a meme.
Comment to this post with a request for a letter, and I will bestow upon you the object of your petition, selected most randomly. So lettered, in your journal you shall then be called upon to construct a listing of 10 of your favourite songs, the titles of which, omitting articles, begin with that letter.
ryttu3k gave me G. So, in no particular alphabetical order:
And that's it for another entry. If it seems a little abrupt, do feel free to segue into the next entry as appropriate for your flist.
The report was more about improving Interthingy access for older people. I'm uncertain as to what octogenarian Intarwebbertubernets1 might actually lead to, though - membership explosions in knitting communities? Squabbles over who's left the good icons in the will? pro_arthritis? Sockpuppet flamewars in an attempt to off that annoying Mr. Patterson with the bad heart across the hallway?
Or, most likely, no appreciable change from the Interwhatever2 that we know and love.
In other Internargles3-related nonsense, Limewire seems to think that Mozart composed Pachelbel's Canon, Für Elise, O Fortuna and Greensleeves. This may explain the amount of missing and/or wrong information attached to my MP3s, and why I'm slowly going through to make it all right.
And, probably, to decide whether things should stay. Coldplay is a valuable example of this - for all but one or two of their songs, I think something like why is this here? I skip all of these after about 20 seconds. Invariably, the answer is that I like the intros, with the worst part of a Coldplay intro being that it's stuck to a Coldplay song.
(...and Winamp's on 'repeat this track'. No wonder it seems to be randomly picking this song so often. *fixes it*)
On the subject of intros,
riverchild has been posting music quizzes with the intros snipped off the songs, and then posted for people to guess. I'm tempted to And lastly, because this seems to have devolved into a post about musicythings: a meme.
Comment to this post with a request for a letter, and I will bestow upon you the object of your petition, selected most randomly. So lettered, in your journal you shall then be called upon to construct a listing of 10 of your favourite songs, the titles of which, omitting articles, begin with that letter.
ryttu3k gave me G. So, in no particular alphabetical order:- The Game, by Lacuna Coil
- Gatekeeper, by Within Temptation
- Ghost of a Rose, by Blackmore's Night
- Ghost Love Score, by Nightwish
- The Ghost Woman and the Hunter, by Lacuna Coil
- Girl Anachronism, by The Dresden Dolls
- Give me a Reason, by The Corrs
- Goblin Jig, by Inkubus Sukkubus
- Going for a Ride, from the Serenity score
- Golden Years, by David Bowie
And that's it for another entry. If it seems a little abrupt, do feel free to segue into the next entry as appropriate for your flist.
- All the usual names for the Internet, plus a potato. And sometimes a carrot that's really just a sockpuppet for the potato.
- Three! Three names for the Internet! Ha ha ha!
- Four! Four names for the Internet! Ha ha ha!4
- And because I just remembered I still had this somewhere:
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:10 pm (UTC)MozartLimeWire*I WENT TO CARMINA BURANA TONIGHT!! LIVE!! AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE!!
*is so damn squeeful*
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:42 pm (UTC)And... !
*envies*
*starts working on a way to steal your memories of the event. Well, that, or psychic paper and a time machine*
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Date: 2007-08-17 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-17 03:19 pm (UTC)~Sor
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-17 03:55 pm (UTC)I once listened to "Mon Amie La Rose" 8 or 9 times before I realized I had iTunes on "repeat item." In my defense, it's a pretty short song.
May I snatch the Countbar for my userinfo?
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Date: 2007-08-17 04:35 pm (UTC)There was a comment here somewhere, yes?
And you certainly may. :D
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Date: 2007-08-19 04:28 pm (UTC)You realize that knitting is actually a hot, hip and very "in" thing for the 20-something set to engage in these days?
They have communities and blogs and podcasts and vcasts and even places they show off pictures of their oversized yarn collections, and call it "stash porn".
I kid you not. I lost a 21 year old girlfriend to knitting. Knitting and CSI.
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Date: 2007-08-20 02:05 am (UTC)And... knitting and CSI? How did you know? Was it from traces of yarn collected at the scene? A partial needle impression on some item of soft furnishing? Discarded envelopes from knitting pattern suppliers?
Enquiring minds are being utterly ridiculous.
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Date: 2007-08-20 04:15 pm (UTC)Criminal Minds would be amusing. What would they make of an evident preference for variegated yarn?
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Date: 2007-08-20 04:50 pm (UTC)"Obviously our unsub's losing control of the finished patterns, but is still trying to keep the materials and resources organised."
"It's rare. It only happens in about 14.6% of cases, usually as a response to a pattern from a magazine."
"But where are the needles? I can't seem to find them anywhere."
"Quick, it's only a matter of time before she knits again."
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Date: 2007-08-20 05:02 pm (UTC)Mulder: "Knitting scene?"
Scully: "Yeah, apparently any shared interest that socially maladjusted kids get together over qualifies as a 'scene' these days."
Mulder: "And people call me weird. Huh."
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Date: 2007-08-20 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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