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| I'm in the process of filling in back entries from my old journal. This is a long and tedious process, and I'm not doing it entirely in order, as I'm leaving some of the more complicated entries (mostly those with photos) for last. So if you read back and wonder at large gaps and apparently out-of-order entries, that's what's going on.
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Sunday, November 09 2008 @ 08:18 PM PST Views: 440 |
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 iTunes 8 introduced this feature called the "Genius," which rummages through your library, and using some kind of methodology that's probably similar to the one used by pandora.com, figures out which tracks go with each other aesthetically. It uses this information for two purposes.
First, you can select a track that represents the kind of thing you want to listen to right now, click a button, and have an instantly-generated playlist of stuff that "goes with" your selection. Second, you can have iTunes give you a constant stream of suggested music to purchase from the iTunes Store that it thinks you'll probably like.
The latter purpose is of little interest to me, but the former can be very handy when I want background music while working or "playing" EVE (there is a very good reason I put that word in quotes, and anyone who knows the game can probably explain it to you). However, it has some problems, which boil down to a single cause: the Genius doesn't know much of my music. |
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 10:45 PM PST Views: 413 |
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 As I write this, CNN's electoral map shows 26 blue states, 19 red states, four states too close to call, and one (Alaska) with 0 precincts reporting. Obama's electoral count is 338, and it seems reasonably likely to go as high as 364, with North Carolina and Indiana leaning his way with 99% of precincts reporting.
Electorally, it's a landslide, though the popular vote is currently closer, about 52% to 47%.
I spent tonight the exact same way as I did in 2000 and 2004, sitting in my living room and watching the returns come in with Nicole. Well, 2000 was a little different, as my mother was also there, and I had an electric pump pushing ice water through a pad wrapped around my recently-operated-upon knee. And boy, was it a lot more fun this time around. |
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Monday, November 03 2008 @ 10:21 PM PST Views: 443 |
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If you're a US citizen of voting age, and you haven't taken advantage of one of the various early voting methods that are becoming increasingly prevalent, then get your ass out the door and down to the appropriate public building and vote. Unless you're reading this more than, say, two hours before voting begins, because then you'll just get cold and/or wet, assuming you live in a climate where such things are likely, for no good reason.
Naturally, my hope is that you'll vote for Obama. There are a few boatloads of good policy reasons, and if you haven't already, I encourage you to read up on them. But beyond all that is the fact that it's well past time for our national celebration of willful ignorance to end. McCain, well, maybe there's some remnant of the kind-of-smart-if-really-ill-tempered guy he used to be locked away in that wild-eyed, depleted husk that's been lurching around the country for the past couple months. But his vice-presidential candidate is a true horror show; if she ever wound up in charge, I guarantee you, her administration would make the Bush administration look like a laid-back, moderate Mensa convention. Sarah Palin doesn't merely fail to absorb knowledge and develop understanding, she actively repels knowledge. And I'm pretty sure she converts it into lethal bursts of X-rays in the process. |
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For the past few days, I have been playing in the free open beta of the Mac client of City of Heroes. So far, my expectations have been more or less confirmed, though I have admittedly not gone very deep into the game yet.
