Geeking Out

It's just amazingly pleasant to have UNIX underpinning a decent desktop environment. MacOS X is not as good a desktop as MacOS 9, at least not yet, but the UNIX makes up for it. So many things I can do without playing stupid games and running silly third party apps.

Like every other massive geek, I'm working on getting some kind of streaming audio set up. I have a reasonably sizable collection of MP3s ripped from a more sizable collection of CDs. It's kind of a pain copying directories over to the Windows box whenever I want to listen to a different album. So... the current experiment is seeing if I can work out some way to do a click and listen thing, selecting the albums to be streamed on the fly. Should be doable.

Hm, perl is reinstalling itself. Better check that out.

Lucky Money

From the US Treasury, no less.

Fairly High on the Geekout Scale

So now I have a page which allows you to switch which album I'm listening to on my nifty in-house streaming MP3 setup. More to the point (not that I don't love you all) it allows me to switch which album etc. This is easier than rummaging through playlists and more important, it'll work when I'm futzing around on the PC.

Sorry y'all can't listen in, but you know. Bandwidth.

I saw Fellowship of the Rings again today, for the Two Towers footage. It looks splendiferous. Also it was well worth seeing Fellowship again, not very surprisingly. You should go see it too. LotR must overtake Harry Potter! Consume! Consume!