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I'm about to go into my living room to read a book (see previous post), but I wanted to continue to play my iTunes songs and control them. Then it dawned on me: I've got a lot of shell scripts to do this for me! Tucked away in ~/Documents/Stuff/MiscShellScripts (which I've added to my path) are little apps named nexttrack, resumetrack, prevtrack, pausetrack, and playtrack.

Their content? They range from being quite simple to a bit more complex. I've posted a few below.

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Jamie and I went to Barnes & Noble last night to burn off some energy. She grabbed some sort of coffee, and I had an absolutely wonderful drink from Jones Soda called Bada Bing: black cherry and logbanberry. Where can I buy this stuff (locally, so as not to pay $9 S&H)?

At any rate, Jamie and I decided to pick out a book each for each other. This can be "our thing" she said. I picked out The Black Tulip by Dumas for her (she's busy right now and it's short) and she chose Something Happened by Joseph Heller for me.

But first I'm going to re-read Catcher in the Rye. It's on my list.

In an article I titled Ed Chooses Carol, the title of which gives away the Ed season finale, Alexei took objection to my practice:

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I agree with Sven-S. Porst in his rebuttal of Dave Weinberger (who thought his 2.1 megapixel images were 830MB) on the issue of whether to capture larger images or smaller images from a digital camera.

I've always taken my images on the highest quality setting available. I think of it as insurance. CD-Rs are cheap enough that if I run out of disk space, I'll offload some images. But the insurance? You never know what you'll need an image for in the future - it could be a 24" x 36" poster - get and save as much information as possible now.

Once you lose data, it's gone. You can compress, but you can't go the other way.

Not really, but this is interesting:

2003.04.12 16:55:28    218.222.150.178    Search: query for 'darko'
2003.04.12 16:56:25    218.222.150.178    Invalid login attempt from user 'darko'
2003.04.12 16:56:33    218.222.150.178    Invalid login attempt from user 'darko'

Question: If you could invent one home appliance that does not exist, what would it be and why?

My Answer: I would invent whatever the opposite of a microwave would be - something that cools things very quickly. This would be useful for immediately refreezing ice cream, chilling warm Coke, and achieving "cold pizza for breakfast" at any time of the day.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

I have nothing specific to write, though I would like to say that the last OneWord was on April 10, and this is kind of annoying. I've built this thing around doing a OneWord once per day, and yet these people can't publish a word for three days. What's the deal with that? How hard is it to flip through a dictionary and post a word? In three days? No specific word, just any word. The specificity is astounding! That made no sense. But they should still post more often.

This 60-second entry was brought to you by today's word from OneWord™.

Today Jamie and I went to Starbucks for breakfast (if you can call any meal at 10am breakfast). Not personally a fan of coffee, though that is changing, Jamie assured me that they have good baked… uhhh… goods.

We approached the counter and Jamie said "I want a medium coffee." I became immediately excited, fearing that she was so tired she had just committed some sort of social faux pas: ordering "coffee" at Starbucks. My mind was screaming "That doesn't make sense! They don't sell just 'coffee' at Starbucks! You have to get like double mocha jabooka grandé latté frappucino with whipped cream, skim don't you?"

Apparently Starbucks also sells "just coffee." Oh, and their baked goods are far from good. Except that lemon pound cake.

I was talking with my friend Mike towards the end of March about one of his prior relationships. He'd moved in with a girl who was one of his best friends, and they began sleeping together. They'd always connected on an emotional level, talking and sharing everything with each other, and I consider having sex three times a day to be connecting on a physical level as well.

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Today I "meet the parents" of a girl I adore. Beyond that, the rest of this post is a speculative sort of "thought experiment" in stream of consciousness.

Imagine that I like a girl named Amy (chosen primarily because it's short, and I don't know anyone named Amy right now). Amy's a bit younger than me, still in college, and thus still under the thumb of her parents. Typically, people this age have a bit of "rebellion" left in them. They're freer to do as they wish, living in dorms or their own apartments, but they still feel the pressure from their parents. After all, they go home on weekends or every summer, and still rely on their parents for a few (or more) bucks now and then.

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Object-Oriented Programming. OOP. Flip it around and you've got poo, which Justin Williams seems to think OOP is at this point. In his words, he doesn't get it.

I've met people who "get" things quickly and I've met people who struggle with things at first. Neither kind of person is stupid. Oftentimes, the second person simply hasn't found the right paradigm or mental model. For example…

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Steve Mallett of O'Reilly is wondering when his AIM nickname is going to get spammed. I don't use ICQ because of the number of rogue messages I got, but here are my assurances to Steve: I've never gotten a "spam" on AIM. My AIM nickname is available to anyone who'd like to message it, but as yet, there seem to be no AIM bots that search Web pages for screen names.

That day will probably come, though. 🙁

Ed chose Carol. Frankie, sorry, this makes two sitcoms on which you've been dumped. Jeremy had enough of your craziness on Sports Night and Ed had to go with his heart on, uhhhh, Ed. Will I be kicked out of the Strong Male Union™ for admitting that tonight's episode put me in a pretty mushy feeling? Bah, fuggit. The sensitive guys get all the girls anyway.

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The Barenaked Ladies have a blog (LINK) but they lack an RSS feed. This makes me sad. But then again, this makes me happy (JPEG).

Guys, pop on an RSS feed fast or I - and I suspect many others - will forget that your blog exists. I visit sites with RSS feeds more often than sites without them, so you wouldn't be losing my eyes.

P.S. I love that, if I chose to quote Barenaked Ladies, this would be a quote I could use: "It's going to be fuckin fantastic!!"

Steven of Panic is pointing out that there are now three different kinds of metal window widgets. Hell, I'm still irked that my Sunken Metal Widgets Bug remains in place in 10.2.5.

OS updates are supposed to fix bugs, not introduce new ones. Apple surely knows about these things, and it's silly that they're not being paid their due attention. How much is that? The Mac UI used to be very much about "attention to details." Now it seems it takes the business end of a shovel to make anyone pay attention to the little things anymore.

But hey, that date/time bug was fixed, so we should be rejoicing in the streets, right? Harumph.