but you don’t want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and over again.
Sure you do.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
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DXMachina - Mar 16, 2006 2:34:58 am PST #7575 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Sue - Mar 16, 2006 3:14:03 am PST #7576 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Huh. I just leave my iPod on shuffle all the time.
Me too.
Sure you do.
Also me.
Though I've become a little obsessed with my unheard songs smart playlist and whittling that number down. But there is a reason why some of those songs remain unheard.
That dude has too much free time to mess around with iTunes.
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2006 3:51:29 am PST #7577 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I may have a little too much free time myself, but I never listen to the whole thing on shuffle. I have all my music on there, and I don't like every track. Sometimes there are moods. Sometimes I want to listen to podcasts, sometimes it's music I adore, sometimes it's music about breakups...that sort of stuff. I've never been in the mood for "anything, honest."
Sue - Mar 16, 2006 4:09:28 am PST #7578 of 10003
hip deep in pie
My problem with shuffle is that I tend to listen to my iPod when i am on the move and want to listen to something upbeat. Probably about 60% of my music is not upbeat, so there's a lot of skipping. I do have a couple of playlists of more upbeat songs but I had to do them manually (and rarely think to update them), because I find the genres assigned are unreliable and all of one of my albums has uploaded with the bpm info included.
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2006 4:29:17 am PST #7579 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Though I've become a little obsessed with my unheard songs smart playlist and whittling that number down.
Recently I made a smart playlist of all my four-or-more star songs that I had yet to play this year. I think there was about 800. It was fun whittling that number down to zero over the course of a week....
eta: I've never messed with the BPM stuff. Seemed like way too much work, even for me. I did download a program that enabled you to calculate the BPM of a song by tapping out the beats on the spacebar, but I've never used it. It would be cool to be able to do smart playlists based on BPM, though....
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2006 4:58:22 am PST #7580 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you buy something high-tech, shouldn't you be given the source-code, so you're not subject to the whims of the vendor? The UK thinks so, at least when it comes to figher planes.
The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the US does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets.
Lord Drayson, minister for defence procurement, told the The Daily Telegraph that the planes were useless without control of the software as they could effectively be "switched off" by the Americans without warning.
"We do expect this technology transfer to take place. But if it does not take place we will not be able to purchase these aircraft," said Lord Drayson.
The problem stems from strict US guidelines on the transfer of technology to other countries. Under current rules any British requests for the use of US technology can take 20 days to go through, obviously limiting the usefulness of a jet strike force.
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2006 5:03:50 am PST #7581 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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This is the most stable levitating product out there we could find and even features an auto-rotate mechanism to spin objects clockwise, or counter- clockwise. A great desktop toy that will fulfill all your dreams of levitation AND space flight!
How does it work? It's simple. Just plug the base in, then grab the LCD clock and hold it between the top and bottom of the base at approximately the height and orientation shown in our images. You'll have to find the 'sweet spot', but it's easy to do with a little practice and the unit will beep and blink at you to guide you along the way. Once you are in the right range, the micro-processor controlled magnets will take over and you can let go. The shuttle works the same way, but can be a bit trickier to get to float. Make sure you look at our additional images to see the proper orientation.
Ya gotta check out the picture. File this one under "pointless, but incredibly cool."
sumi - Mar 16, 2006 5:05:35 am PST #7582 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Why is gmail constantly telling my that I need to delete my temporary internet files? I JUST deleted them not five minutes ago and I got the message again!
Jessica - Mar 16, 2006 5:05:39 am PST #7583 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, I can see not wanting to have to call tech support every time your fighter jet freezes up.
Spidra Webster - Mar 16, 2006 5:13:14 am PST #7584 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Seemed like way too much work, even for me. I did download a program that enabled you to calculate the BPM of a song by tapping out the beats on the spacebar, but I've never used it.
Is that a Mac program? If so, can you let me know what it's called?