Jeff gave me Roo for Christmas:
I installed the eyes. He needed them. I <3 him. (I’ve wanted one forever, thanks to thebroomecloset‘s review, but somehow hadn’t gotten around to getting one.
He’s VERY clever and hasn’t gotten stuck yet, even with all the, ahem, stuff, on my floor.
Ok… Saturday night (saw Bourne Supremacy…very..blurry, that one). Reading LJ pre-bed. Notice a wee bug crawling on my screen. Try to flick him off (perhaps unintentionally squishing him). He won’t flick.
The bug is *INSIDE* my screen.
There is a wee bug INSIDE my screen.
I hope he doesn’t die and become a wee dead bug inside my screen.
background
We launched a new version of the search engine last week, and one of the features we implemented was Spell Check… the second block of text in the email below was in our Search Tips page. The bit that’s blue and underlined is a working link to a search-engine query (which, of course, won’t work when you’re not on the intranet).
/background
This was the email we received:
Thought you would like to know there is a typo on your link when I clicked to get more info on your new search features. Your pages always look so professional it really stands out when there is a typo… :0)
“We noticed that several well-known internet search engines have spelling-correction features, which can be quite useful if you’re a poor typist. Inktomi, our search engine, has a spelling suggestion feature that we’ve implemented in the new search. Try searching on “documennt“, for example, to see how it works.”
Well, yeah. In order to show you how the spell check works, we sorta had to misspell a word. Sigh.
It’s 1:51 and I’ve received 64 emails since last night that I needed to respond to (not counting junk mail or throwaways). Gak. Have written 27 replies. Working on #28.
(These are just some random thoughts I wanted to get in one place).
I’m really an all-or-nothing person when it comes to music. I bought one of the first mega-multi-disc changers back in 95(?) and since then have been completely unwilling to change compact discs (I *hate* butterfly packages — so un-butterfly-like, as butterflies are a good thing and not in the least annoying. Anyway).
I never had a CD-changer in my car, because I hated the idea that the CDs I wanted in the car at any given moment would be in the house or vice versa. My solution there was an in-dash minidisc player and mix MDs. “Mixes” fall outside the “all-or-nothing” realm because they’re intentional and have “flow.”
For me, the decision to “go digital” was spurred on by three things:
So now I have a 40GB iPod — that really holds 37 GB; thankfully, about 15GB of my collection is classical (which is “bigger” in filesize), new age or jazz, which I’m not as concerned with having with me. (FWIW, I have a little less than 9000 songs).
All my “real music” (which roughly equates to stuff I can sing to) is in my baby (at about 35GB), which makes me *very* happy! There are a lot of duplicate songs (the cases where I have a “best of” album as well as the original disc, for example), which I’m weeding out as time permits, allowing me to add more music (plus I have a GB or two to spare now).
I don’t think I’d want only part of my music with me. I did buy a Sonic Rio an eon or two ago, and almost never used it because trying to figure out *which* songs I wanted (and get them onto the bugger) was such a pain. I’m way too picky about what I want to hear… sometimes it’s not enough to be in the right genre or even the right artist; no, I want *the*song*that*the*radio*in*my*head*is*playing.”
Did y’all know that not everyone has a radio in his head? I can’t imagine that.
This may be the coolest music-thing ever (via CuriousGirl):
My favorite new music magazine, Paste Magazine, sends out a sampler CD every month with 20+ complete tracks. This is a huge bonus, and makes the subscription worth it in and of itself, as far as I’m concerned.
The only bad thing is that the track listings are *on* the CD, which makes it sort of difficult to type them in during the ripping process (and putting them in after is a bigger pain) since you can’t see the listings when the CD is in the drive.
My ever-so-clever solution is to scan the front of the CD, then stick it in the drive. Ta-dah! I can read the track names *and* rip the CD. Yah me.
In no particular order
*Ok, it’s not *quite* all my music, as that would be more than the 37gig that the iPod holds. My jazz, “new age” and classical are not on the ‘pod, but with some editing out of the other music I don’t adore, I could manage that, I think.
Realm of the Lint Queen 