Oct 17, 2009 0
Heading out of McCarran Airport to head to NYC for a couple days and then heading on home. One whirlwind week followed by another:
Big music project related to an upcoming Dogsharks cartoon, completing a film festival bumper, fleshing out an augmented reality project for a Burlington VT art show. Oh and follow up with all the awesome people I met at the Blogworld conference.
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Sep 18, 2009 0
Started out the evening in backed up traffic on the West Side Highway. We found a lucky spot to park the wagon. Dropped off packs full of drawing stuff, my uke and hard disk recorder. Walked the dog. I listened to Saint Saens’ Danse Macabre, noting each thematic change in the music for a project we’re doing next. Wr ate ravioli. Then wrote and recorded a great piece of music, probably for a piece called Grassmonster. Now it’s time to sleep. Launch a website tomorrow.
Aug 31, 2009 0
When I get a scratched disc from Netflix (which has been the case for me in 3 out of the last 4 discs), I typically just watch through the rest of the film, hoping I didn’t miss too much. If the scratch is halfway through the movie it isn’t like I’m going to just stop there, fill out the Netflix scratched disc form, and then finish watching the movie in a couple days.
When you report a scratched disk to Netflix, they give you the following options:
The problem, of course, is that I’m not a satisfied customer and sending me the same movie isn’t going to me make me satisfied either.
Seems to me the offer that Netflix makes to people who report scratched disks has little to no value. There’s no reason to report a scratched disk because they’re only going to give you what you already saw but you’ll have to wait a few days. I’ll continue to report scratched disks to them so that other people won’t have the same bad experience I did.
I guess Netflix has successfully outsourced customer service to the customer.
Jan 15, 2008 0
This is a pretty simple, one sentence answer:
My main iPod tether is the 12″ PowerBook which doesn’t sport USB 2.0 which means I can’t update this rig beyond iTunes 7.4 without disabling the ability to connect my iPod to my PowerBook. I wrote previously one why I hacked the iPod Touch if you need more gory details.
The long-form is that I’m caught in that crossfire of wanting a truly portable mostly-creative machine (something His Steveness did deliver today) and also keeping a powerhouse machine (for the renders and the jobs that clients will just let me do my way). The real stickler is the “personal media” and the meaning/value behind the worklife/lifelife conundrum. Probably another post in there somewhere.
Anyway. No way in hell in hell I’m giving up my Pigshooter just to pay 20 bucks to have google triangulate me on a map. I bet it doesn’t work for shit in Vermont anyway.
But had Apple done this two months ago (and also not invalidated my 12″ Powerbook’s USB slots for syncing my iPod Touch) I would never have hacked it in the first place.
Jan 3, 2008 0
As you can tell from the links on the right, I’m a Magnolia user. I don’t know why I’m more into Magnolia than delicious or the other Social Bookmarks but I am. I guess I just sort of starting using it and figured it would be a pain to switch. I’ll switch when I have to I suppose and luckily Magnolia has an API for getting my data out if I need a liferaft.
But ultimately, the thing to look for in a social bookmarker is search right? Every browser I’ve used (starting just after Lynx) has a bookmark feature built in. Bookmarking itself is pretty useless. But retrieval, now there’s something. What if I bookmark stuff all the time and want to see all my bookmarks that have to do with media, film, and business? Looking in my bookmark pile is pretty useless. And Magnolia’s search tool is ummm… bad.
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Sep 11, 2007 0
I love music. I love toys. I love design. I love well designed music toys even more.
For the past few years, Rax has filled that void for me; the perfect computer-brain to mash-up with my whatever-input-I-have-handy funtimes. You know, load up some funkay bass, put it through that wackjob AU effect thinger and then go to town with your Nostromo right? Right? Bueller? Anyway.
For the past year or so or maybe longer even… Rax fell on hard times. You see, the folks who made Rax also made another app. This other app was wildly successful and truly required their attention (the app in question is the very very kick-ass and broad-market-appealable ComicLife, but for now, gnash your teeth with me, even if just to humor me). And so, our dear friend Rax… was homeless.
But, being much beloved, Rax found a new home. A home which you can read about in the latest installment of N0D3 Outbound: Rax Finds a Home.
Aug 15, 2007 0
Before we went to Japan I got some Pimsleur lessons on CD as a result of a long ago reference by a friend.
Having studies a couple languages before I was eager to give these a try. What I loved about it was a complete disregard for grammar, rules, syntax and all the other stuff you learned in 7th grade (i.e. all the stuff you were quizzed on about 12 years after you learned to effectively communicate in your native language).
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Mar 23, 2007 0
Let’s be honest and say that the iPod and iTunes have very little they need to do to improve. The music delivery system is good enough that they are the dominating force in the digital music distribution/portable player marketplace. They could stagnate and still be the leading seller for another year or two at the very least.
But just for grins I’m going to suggest a potential improvement: Summed Portable Playlists.
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