I laughed until I cried.
Acted out by World of Warcraft creatures.
“Just grab your dick and double-click” has got to be the best line EVAR in a song!
Updated: Apparently this song is from a Broadway Musical called Avenue Q. The rest of the soundtrack is pretty good too.
Here are some papercraft models for Christmas:
These are from a talented Japanese artist named Keisuke Saka.
Thanks to the Paper Forest blog – a great site for papercraft!
This is a great web site. It pretends to be giving advice about what to do if you get a CD for Christmas, but it’s really a rail against the RIAA and the record labels.
Nicely sarcastic.
It looks like Mad Professor needs to go onto my list of blogs to read…
It looks like another good collection of interesting stuff.
I’m starting to rip my CDs onto the Openfiler box and I think I have a problem.
Hmmm.
Well, I guess I’ll just rip what I can for now. I think I’ll start at A and go until I run out of space.
My dream would be to buy five 250GB drives. They are pretty cheap after rebate, but of course you are only supposed to get a rebate on one….
So I would take one of the drives and copy all the data that’s currently on the RAID to it, then build a new RAID with four of the new drives, giving me a quarter of a terabyte of space. Whee.
Then I’d copy the data back onto the RAID and add the fifth drive as a hot spare.
But it’s all a dream until I can buy five 250GB drives, which isn’t going to happen soon. 🙁
I soooo have to win that lottery.
Updated: Oops. My face is red. I should know better. As Nate points out in his comment, the CDs should not be that large when ripped.
And they aren’t.
I was looking at the CD size – unripped.
I am ripping at 192K so the CDs rip down to 40 to 90MB, not 400MB.
So if I have 500 CDs, they should require 42GB? Is that right? Well, I’m going to rip until I run out space, or out of CDs. 🙂
But it still would be cool to have three-quarters of a terabyte in my basement. 😛
Welcome, internet, to The Consumerist, the latest title from Gawker Media. The Consumerist loves to shop, and is reconciled to utilities, but hates paying for shoddy products, inhumane customer support, and half-assed service.
Each week The Consumerist will guide you through the delinquencies of retail and service organizations. The Consumerist will highlight the persistent, shameless boners of modern consumerism — and the latest hot deals, discounts, and freebies around.
Join us. You’ll tell us when you’ve been royally screwed by yet another company, and we’ll channel your rage. Together we will storm the revolving doors of faceless corporations to call them naughty words for genitals, and they will begin to fear us.
This could be another daily read for me.
Fender has released a line of Hello Kitty guitars and amplifiers.
Oh my.
Actually, those might be kind of fun. 🙂
Here is an entire 1949 NWCA candy-salesman’s catalog, scanned in at medium resolution. Loads of clip-art treasure here.
Thanks again Boing Boing.
I don’t blog about work too often, as I know that my managers (some of them anyway) and quite a few of my co-workers read this.
But I got caught up on an ex-co-workers blog today where he was talking about business managment.
He had read a book called “Finding and Keeping the Best Talent in the World” by Richard Leider and says:
His contention is that talented people want “purpose driven” workplaces. How do you build a purpose driven workplace? You answer the following four employee questions over and over.
1. Where are we going?
2. What are we doing to get there?
3. What do you want me to do?
4. What’s in it for me when I do?Good pay is essential, he says, but there needs to be more than that. If a company can’t answer those four questions, the talented people, looking for “purposeful, challenging work” and the chance “to express and develop their strongest talents” will quit.
I was going to write about appreciation today and thought a lot about what I really liked from my management. Is it the thank yous and occasional bonuses that make a difference to me? Nope, what I really want is those four questions answered because then I know what we’re doing and what my part of the effort is and how the company will show their appreciation. If someone answers those questions for me they’re showing me that they respect and appreciate me and they need me to be part of the effort.
I have to say that out of these four simple questions, I don’t usually have clear answers to any of them.
So I have this OpenFiler NAS in the basement now and I want to put my MP3s on it and serve them to multiple computers around the house. (See this, this and this.)
I had been ripping my CDs into iTunes onto the drive in my laptop and then copying the directory structure to the OpenFiler. This is sub-optimal for several reasons:
So that’s no good.
Number 1 could be solved with rsync – and I have just installed Cygwin so I could use their rsync utility.
Number 2 is not a big issue, really.
Number 3 was the show-stopper as far as I was concerned.
Then I used my head, searched with Google and found Libra.
Libra is a very simple application that allows you to create, use and manage multiple iTunes music libraries. Normally, iTunes has only one library, and you can create playlists and groups within this unique library. However, some users have reported that iTunes slows down noticeably when the library becomes large, and other users would like to simply categorize their music in separate sets. This is what Libra allows you to do safely.
Libra is shareware, not free, but it’s only $10. It seems to work okay so far, and it’s just nagware, so I’ll run it a bit before I send in the money, but if it works well, it’s worth it.
So the new plan (which I am executing as I type this) is to create a new library on the OpenFiler, make it the active library and import all the MP3s into it.
After that’s done, I can change back to the library on the laptop drive and delete a bunch of songs to make more disc space.
I can also rip my CDs directly into the library that is on the OpenFiler from now on and I should be good to go!
Pretty slick.
I should also be able to export or copy the iTunes Library files to other machines, assuming I mount the OpenFiler on the same drive letter. We’ll have to see how that goes later.
