Archive for the tag "apple"

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• I’m home! Yay!! Tomorrow is Leopard day for me, so NO SPOILERS #

• Comment posted to I have a sound icon! on Flickr:
  
  I have the icon; I thought everybody did! Bought my 8-gigger on
  launch day at an AT&T store in El Cerrito CA (near Berkeley).
• StSanders’ Hilarious YouTube Parodies ‘Shred’ Guitar Gods

• Kinda glad I never unlocked or jailbrunked my iPhone. Had a few ringtones erased w/ the last update, but otherwise I’m 100% clean, yes sir! #

• Goo-dammit. The top search query for my site is “scintillating scotoma”, not “edith frost” which is number f’n TWO. I oughta go back to bed. #
• This is the best: Twitterrific notifying Growl using Chat Bubble style, and “Stay On Screen” set to “Always”. Read tweet, and close. Love it. #
• Anybody know if there’s a key combo to insert a carriage return into an MP3’s comment in iTunes “Get info”? Other than cutting and pasting. #
• Oh god I’m playing with WordPress. Feels very much like I’m sneaking around behind ExpressionEngine’s back. :-o #
• @beep: SSSSSHHHH. I’m just playin’, not switchin’! err… right now… ‘cuz I’ve been wanting to check it out. Seriously invested in EE tho. #

• Got my rebate from Apple. Why was I worried it’d be a PITA? Took like five seconds. #
• What should I get? Somebody needs to blog a list of the best sub-$100 items #
• And, I already made the joke about 100 ringtones. But I hereby put it under a CC license, noncommercial/attribution to my comedic genius. #
• Looks like using the rebate for Leopard is the new black. Makes sense for me; it’s the one thing I HAVE to get on Day 1, poverty be damned. #
• EWW is that what his music sounds like? Unfriend! Unfriend! #
• Oh shit I just figured out this week’s NPR Sunday Puzzle challenge, one day too late. Lili -> Momo #
• Score! I got Jenn Frank up in this bitch. @jennatar #
• @jennatar: Relax, you’re a natural! :-) #
• I just planted a bunch of tulip bulbs. It’s true! This godforsaken place must be getting to me. #
• (and by that I mean “yuck, I love it!”) #

• Cool, the ringtone trick works! Just got a celeste loop from a Patience & Prudence song on there. About to convert the Okeh Laughing Song. #
• This just in: Riverside woman Edith Frost volunteers one day a week in her granddaughter’s second-grade class. http://tinyurl.com/2zztml #

• In my dream I was working with some complex machine and I knew exactly what it was for and how to check it. Woke up and I’m a dum-dum again. #
• You’re the man, Jobsie. Thank you, and sorry for using the f-word earlier. It was nothing personal, I say it all the time. #
• p.s. I’m gonna buy ONE HUNDRED RINGTONES!! #
• Nice article about my Boxstep pal @eric_l_graf … http://www.pittsburghcitypa… #
• Goo-dog! Please let me add snarky remarks to my Reader shared items. thx #

• A $200 price drop after two months? I love you Apple, but fuck you very much for that. :-( #
• Just did a pre-interview to maybe do some color commentary on a PBS doc about the WLS Barn Dance / DeZurik Sisters et al. VERY up my alley!! #
• Eeek!! Google Reader has search! #

• My pal Jeff Economy is interviewing Porter Wagoner next week. Wickedly, I told him to ask PW if he’s heard of Cynthia Plastercaster. Hee!! #
• Plopped a discography box front’n'center on my index page. So now it’s even messier, but at least ppl will be aware I’m a fucking musician. #
• @buzz: great work getting PodWorks supporting my precious!! #
• FYI to my blog readers (all 3 of them): if you want to comment on my Twitters, getcherself an account and get crackin’ with the @ symbol! #
• YAY, Perio has a new record coming out!! I’ve been waiting YEARS but I guess one more month won’t kill me. http://www.myspace.com/periomusic #
• We just watched ‘Blades of Glory’. Mostly terrible, but I laughed. Can’t believe they didn’t get Nancy Kerrigan to do her ‘WHYYY’ thing. #

• I feel like such a prick, turning down Facebook requests from certain highly awesome people who don’t happen to be family or RLFs (yet)… #
• Twitter found a bunch of Gmail contacts for me, but DOESN’T say who the hell they are. Some have funky usernames & I have no idea who’s who. #
• Don’t take off your headset when hoisting your messenger bag! Put iPhone through the strap, THEN the bag over your head. Yes, I am a genius. #

An iPod-related magic-eightball kinda meme that I stole from somebody’s blog.

Put your music player on shuffle.
Press forward for each question. 
Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense.

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Doorway to the bathroom in my room at the Hotel Congress in Tucson AZ

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I wish I could come up with a better way to get my thoughts up here, it’s so much of a chore.  It needs to be more like a little notepad where I can jot a bunch of things down real quick instead of creating these humongous catching-up posts where I’m trying to summarize a whole week or two.  Bitch bitch bitch!!

Speaking of notepads, have you heard about the latest craze?  The low-tech hipster PDA, just a bunch of index cards held together with a binder clip.  I love that, it really appeals to my love of list-making and my fetish for office supplies.  It also leaves me lusting over fancier things like a Levenger pocket briefcase and a little Moleskine notebook for writing down my song-snippets.  I love using my Treo for contact management — I have so many of those it really is a space-saver, but for note-taking, the Treo doesn’t really work too well for me.  I like to have notes and to-do lists right in front of my face, not hidden away in a program on my phone that I might never open for weeks!

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I got my laptop back from Apple today; thanks to AppleCare for not telling me I had water damage like they did last time with my old iBook!  This time they just put in a new hard drive — and a new keyboard too, dunno why? — and sent it back to the store for me to pick up.  There was no extra charge, it was all covered by AppleCare.  They gave it new rubber feet and cleaned it off a lot too.  I sure am happy to have it back.  Of course it’s a pain in the ass to lose all my old stuff, I’ve been messing with it all day reinstalling things, but it sure beats the alternative.  Gawd…

My poor sweet little iBook G4 (named Eskimo after the Residents album of course) is in the shop with what appears to be a failing hard drive.  What is it with me and hard drives?  It happened so fast too.  The poor baby started getting asthma just a few days ago, and as soon as I got home from touring, started locking up bigtime.  I kept having to do the unfortunate holding-down-of-the-power-button thing, staring at the screen woefully ‘cuz the drive’s thrashing and the lights are on but nobody’s home.  Full-blown grand mal seizures.

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