Yoga solo
Jan 6, 2010Hmm well hrm hm, it appears I broke my Diana+
the damage displayed with Hipstamatic (best app evah).
This happened while I was trying to take off its lens to put on my didge-et-uhl camera with this nifty adaptor I bought, which arrived in the mail today, which is pretty cool, and makes the camera way like ten pounds less.. and – oh yeah, I twisted the wrong part and it just BROKE. Forums on Flickr said “oh yeah, it will be really really hard to get off at first but just.. twist it.” I guess that only applies for.. the right part.
On the bright side my Gorillapod tripod (also ordered with Christmas amazon gift card – thanks Volls!) came, and it’s pretty shnazzy dazzy (changing up the adjectives, okay?).
neighborhood lights
School started yesterday. Part of my homework tonight is to fill out an “Application for Employment” for our class bake sale business. Half of it is marked “N/A” because I don’t have any degrees, slash haven’t exactly been to college yet. Last.fm is playing me some lovely recommendations.
Speaking of Last.fm.. what’s the spiel? I’ve had an account for awhile and quite plainly don’t use it (except for right now). The statistics aren’t really right and most of the time just make me feel weird, like the internet is judging my music tastes (by not really right I mean inaccurate and by inaccurate I mean it sees my Top Album as my cantor’s Bar Mitzvah practice CD) (and my judging music tastes I mean “I’m a neurotic Jew”). I guess I shouldn’t be worried about the latter though because I’m pretty proud of the music I listen to. It’s just stuff like, I dunno, say, the Spongebob soundtrack that should stay UNDER THE RADAR.
Honestly it’s not so much judgement, though, as the thought that somebody could be analyzing what you’re listening to (wait.. okay yeah judgement). Meh.
p.s. wait! I never even uploaded pictures taken with the Diana! Okay, added to the to-do list.
edit: Last.fm scrabbling and stuff works fine, it just doesn’t gauge Top Bands and stuff like that right because I don’t always listen to music on iTunes/other scrobble-able stuff. Sometimes it’s a turntable or car stereo and things a’like that. My suspicion is that I think music listening in private is private.. which kind of goes against a lot of what I think about music but, maybe the internet makes it different?
This is mostly going to be about Last.fm because, well, I’m obsessed:
1. According to this, http://www.last.fm/user/tweedyson/charts?subtype=albums, your top album overall is The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives. Cantor Friedman – Aliyah 6 is way lower with 13 plays.
2. Judging your music is not really negative. They give some pretty amazing recommendations, so I guess it’s more “analysing” like you said and that’s not really a bad thing at all! It just means you like these bands, other people like these same bands and here are some bands whose music you would enjoy.
3. If your play counts are inaccurate, your tracks are probably not all being Scrobbled by the system. This is relatively common and is a “problem” of sorts. I do have a way to fix it but it’s more a treatment for the incurable than it is a cure. It doesn’t take long to do but it takes a while to explain. If you feel you need/want this explanation, send me a message or a shout or something at http://www.last.fm/user/giraffebreath.
Peace,
giraffebreath!
Yeah my stats stay spot on..hopefully you’re scrobbeling is working right.. sometimes I have to go to HELP, DIAGNOSTICS and SCROBBLE IPOD to force it to scrobble. I love LastFM, I use it daily. I tried iLike but found iDontLike. It sucks and it incorporates my lame ass facebook friend’s crappy music.
In last.fm you can go to your top artist list and remove any of them from your library. I think there’s also a way to not include podcasts or specific artists, but I don’t recall how.
You may like this site http://www.gnoosic.com/faves.php – you can put in the name of 3 bands/artists you like (you can do it for authors as well) and it will suggest artists (authors in the literature part) you may like. I found some good albums/books this way that I may never have discovered.
Try using LaLa for your online listening – might just be the best platform out there.
I don’t think anyone is analyzing…or at least they shouldn’t be! See, this is why it will be awesome when I dye my hair blue: anyone that looks at me funny/makes fun will be someone too narrow-minded to get that someone just feels like dying their hair, and will automatically become someone I can ignore/don’t have to get to know!
is it easier to catch more flys with honey or viniger?
You’ve played Highway 61 Revisited exactly 61 times. Coincidence? (raises eyebrow in a Spock-like fashion)
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