morphin power III

Wow. I'm k-impressed with Audio Galaxy. After discovering that LimeWire liked to take up about 50MB of RAM and then crash, I perused a filesharing portal for a Mac Satellite client.

What's not to like? Leave your satellite on 24/7, and when someone logs on with the song you want, you download it automagically. No more downloading the same song five times from five punksters whose connections all drop. You can return more than 100 results. It's easy to find obscure stuff, it just may take a while to get. And as a bonus feature, people have problems spelling, so incorrectly named files get past copyright guards.

In addition, I'm slowly working my way through the gigs of mp3s my brother suggested I grab from him. I don't have the drive space for all of them, so my task is to determine which I hate most. Maybe I just need to make an mp3 CD of "Loud Obnoxious Music." I probably don't need 400 megs of Marilyn Manson.

Wanna grab some of my stuff? Shoot me an email. Much isn't well organized yet, but you'll live.

Colds suck. Why am I sick now that I'm getting the right amount of sleep (more or less) and just went to the HMO? I dislike not having enough brain power to do more than organize mp3s and read LiveJournal.

morphin power III

Wow. I'm k-impressed with Audio Galaxy. After discovering that LimeWire liked to take up about 50MB of RAM and then crash, I perused a filesharing portal for a Mac Satellite client.

What's not to like? Leave your satellite on 24/7, and when someone logs on with the song you want, you download it automagically. No more downloading the same song five times from five punksters whose connections all drop. You can return more than 100 results. It's easy to find obscure stuff, it just may take a while to get. And as a bonus feature, people have problems spelling, so incorrectly named files get past copyright guards.

In addition, I'm slowly working my way through the gigs of mp3s my brother suggested I grab from him. I don't have the drive space for all of them, so my task is to determine which I hate most. Maybe I just need to make an mp3 CD of "Loud Obnoxious Music." I probably don't need 400 megs of Marilyn Manson.

Wanna grab some of my stuff? Shoot me an email. Much isn't well organized yet, but you'll live.

Colds suck. Why am I sick now that I'm getting the right amount of sleep (more or less) and just went to the HMO? I dislike not having enough brain power to do more than organize mp3s and read LiveJournal.

Are You A Carnivore?

Over the last couple months I've put together some Red Meat fanstrips for use at the Red Meat Constructor Set. Check them out, and let me know what you think.

And word to #frpg crowd whose LiveJournals I decided to find today.

Event Planning

Suppose you advertised for a party at a specific time and place, but didn't associate yourself or anyone else as the organizer. When people show up, there's no leader. No instructions. Just a bunch of people who heard there was a party (or however you want to advertise it). This is sort of a bee hive, except that nobody knows they're in a bee hive.

Nobody can know who advertised it, and it's probably best if you don't attend either, so that you don't let it slip what's going on. If you can hiddenly observe it, that'd be great. It'd also be cool to find out about it by talking to folks. "Hey, did you go to that party the other day? I wanted to, but had a meeting. What was it like? What happened, the fliers didn't really say. Who was there? Did you like it?"

This is sort of like Critical Mass and public 4:20 gatherings, but without a purpose. Those are recurring events that started by a group of people spreading the word and participating, and they grew on their own. This is a one-time event where the promoter isn't involved and there isn't an obvious task upon arrival.

If you try this out, let me know.