I hate to judge music, whenever I do I look like an asshat. But I just don’t listen to certain types of music… very much. I’ll let a country song pass through my brain every once in a while. When “The Postal Service” comes up on the playlist I don’t always skip it. I really like their song “Such Great Heights” but only when I’m in a certain mood, A depressed mood. But unfortunatley I’m not depressed very much.

I have a hard time listening to something that when you sing along with it you feel like you’re putting in more effort than the preformers. I’m a laid back kind of guy, I don’t mind relaxing but this kind of music makes me feel like I’m in a coma… on Lunestra.. and drunk. I don’t even know how to catergorize it. Apparentley I’m not the only one. here’s some of the catergories that Amazon users put it into.

Whoever labeled this band “dance” is an idiot. The only dance that I could see you doing to this song/band would be a gently swaying like kelp underwater. NO, less movement than that, like kelp on the beach. Really I don’t think I could ever listen to one (specific) type of music all the time. Not that I think everyone else does. Honestly I just don’t understand people that focus on this type of music. Don’t they ever want to scream? Or jump around? I listen to some pretty toned down music, but every once in a while I need to ROCK. To get the blood flowing. To remind myself that I’m alive.

Indie-tronic-electro-pop-core sounds too much like my every day life feels. I need music to make me feel better. Not the same. Who wants to be the same? You know who wanted to be the same… Nazi’s.

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I’ve been out of the loop in the digital printing market for… scratch that. I’ve never printed anything besides from my inkjet printer. But my current and long overdue Jenn project requires me to print the image bigger than 8×11. So I tried to find a place with a large format digital printer. After abandoning that quest I just went to Kinkos.

I tried once before but the fonts weren’t embedded in the file and I gave up. But this time I was armed with a PDF of the image and a rudimentary knowledge of what I was talking about. So the weird guy behind the counter loaded up the image on the computer, had me check to see if it was all right, and then sent the job to the printer. I walked around for about for a while and then came back to pick up the job. Success… crap. Looks like their heads are see through, but it was my fault so I paid for it and left. Seems that the process they use to print the image prints everything else first and then the black lines last. Which would be a good idea if the ink were opaque. So round two involved me going through my file and reworking some things, darkening others, and giving all black areas a white backer. Mostly just a pain in the ass. But it was a learning experience. So I sent it to them over the Internet and picked it up at the store. Not a bad process if you ask me. It wasn’t perfect… but nothing about this project has been, so I think it’s nearing completion. Just have to assemble it tonight!

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I think there is definitely a case for a male version of PMS. I always knew that I went through waves of hunger every month. Sometimes I can go from 8am to 6pm without eating a bite. Mostly when I’m hard at work doing something. But other times I just can’t stop eating. Recently I’ve been heading towards the Pacman-eat everything in sight phase. That’s kind of why I wrote that I needed to go on a diet. But I weighed myself this morning, 226. Still a lardass, but down from the 235 that I weighed last month. But I’m still not playing beerpong during the week.

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For me that’s going to involve not playing beerpong on weekdays. That should cut out some unwanted calories. Also maybe getting out and walking around would help. And not going to Fudruckers after 8 ever.

Later, Fatass.

I just read a story about the MPAA filing a lawsuit against major torrent sites for… well… being major torrent sites. I really don’t have a problem with them protecting what is theirs. As a person who sometimes gets software and media from these nefarious sources I know that it’s just a matter of time before they get shut down and we have to move on to something else. You know why? Because this has all happened before!

During my freshman year at Mason Napster was the big thing, it was the first time I had a high-speed connection too. I could download music faster than I could listen to it. It was easy. That’s what the MPAA and RIAA are missing in this. They think that the way to stop you from downloading illegally is to stop the torrent sites. which is a flawed stance. I’ll tell you why.

It’s not like I’m breaking new ground here, but I just think they’re being stupid about this. First of all think of the flow of digital media to our homes as a river or canal. The “hackers” have made this big canal from the Media Reservoir created by the music and movie industry. They saw that the people wanted access to it and said we’re not waiting for the industries to get off their asses and do something about it. So if the MPAA stops the “hacker canal” another group will just say “The people want it and we will have it”. So what they need to do is focus less on stopping the “hackers” and more on building their own canal.

The analogy goes further because information, like water will always flow down the easiest route. Every time the movie and music companies make a canal the put these little dams and lockes in it (DRM) so that only certain kinds of boats (MP3 players) can go through it. Thus making it hard to use, so you look back at that “hacker canal” and think well I’m just going to keep using that, because it’s easier. The consumer will always use the most familiar and easy medium. Itunes is a step in the right direction, it’s easy to use, and relatively cheap. Why do you think that they just passed a Billion downloads?

What the companies need to do is stop focusing on making as much money on physical cds as they do on digital files. I download tons of media that I would never buy in physical form. I get it because I can, because it’s there and I might someday want to use it. If I could buy a whole CD of NEW music for like 3-4 dollars then I might think of doing that. I went on a buying spree with used DVDs from Amazon for just that reason, they were cheap and it was easy.

So my message is that of “Field of Dreams”. If you build it, they will come!

Later!

So it’s been a while since I had a free moment to post something to this site. I’ve been working really hard (shocker) at work in order to get some screenshots of the new application done for early next week. I’ve been doing a lot of CSS work. Not since I built this site with it’s fancy CSS layout have I worked with it so much. I’ve actually come up with a few improvements that I may implement sometime soon (ie. Never). But I do plan to, so it’s as good as finished. Another one of my pet projects at work is trying to sneak famous fonts into the logo for the new system. I don’t think it’s obvious but just look at these.

Famous Fonts comparison

All the Logos that I submitted

Later!