Posted November 14th, 2011 @ 03:48pm by Erik J. Barzeski
iTunes Match debuted today. I don't care that it's "late" because I'm not sure I care to pony up the $24.99. My only mobile device is an iPhone. Though I suppose I can now play all the music on my MacBook Air, too, without actually copying my entire library over there.
My entire library is 12,700+ songs. So it's well under the 25,000 limit.
I suppose whether I buy it or not boils down to this: do you get to keep the 256 kbps DRM-free "replacement" songs that replace your copies if you don't renew? Or do your copies of the song still hang around on your computer somewhere?
I'm guessing it's A. And for a one-time $24.99 fee that alone might be worthwhile.
Posted November 13th, 2011 @ 06:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
When I lived on my own in Florida, I bought a set of silverware that I really, really liked, primarily because it was the heaviest silverware I could find. The forks have only three tines, too, which I like.
I still have the silverware, a decade later, but an unusually high number of the regular forks are missing. If you look at the back side of the fork, you can make out the words "RETRONEU" and "18/10" and "China."
It turns out, the silverware is called "Retroneu Contour" and it's currently made by Towle. For future reference, some links where I can get more of this silverware should more forks wander off into the abyss:
Posted November 12th, 2011 @ 01:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The update took about three minutes on my phone. I still downloaded the full 700 MB update within iTunes. I'm looking forward to some better battery life.
Posted November 9th, 2011 @ 08:10am by Erik J. Barzeski
Love it! 🙂
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Yeah, I'm the only dumbass with his head turned way over that way. I remember that shirt, too. It was a tight "fur" style shirt. It may be the reason that I still dislike turtlenecks to this day
Posted November 7th, 2011 @ 07:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Today I ran my first "Couch to 5K" segment. Between five minutes of warm-up and cool-down, you alternate running for 60 seconds and walking for 90 seconds for 20 minutes.
I set out without a route in mind, but had an idea where to go. It turns out my guess was pretty good - I completed a 2.3 mile loop (give or take) in about 22 minutes, which included a minute of the warm-up and cool-down each.
I plan to run on M-W-F for the time being, though I have the flexibility to move dates around as necessary to accommodate weather, etc.
Wednesday Update: Today's run didn't go so well. I paced myself too fast, trying to shoot for 20 minutes, and I accidentally paused one of the segments which resulted in running far too long, which had ill effects on the remaining couple of segments.
P.S. My shoes are a pair of black Asics Gel Kayano-17s, size 11. My arches are slightly higher than average, my feet slightly wider than average, and while a 10.5 is probably a better "fit" a little room isn't a bad thing as I have no real "slippage." My feet roll inwards when I walk - always have - and I think I have decent form. The shoe guy said you should land on the outside of your heel and roll towards the inside of the ball of your foot.
I try to adopt the position (typically with writing an AppleScript or shell script to automate something) that I need to do that thing frequently enough that I'll be "in the black" time savings wise inside of about the next three weeks or so, give or take.
Extra points are awarded if the time I'd spend would be really aggravating. 🙂
Posted November 5th, 2011 @ 06:59am by Erik J. Barzeski
My college (Ohio Northern University) is not a state college. And I've still got student loans that I'm paying off to the tune of a few hundred bucks a month.
Nor do I have a few spare million dollars lying around.
Why on earth would I donate money to them?
College is a business. I paid what I considered a fair price, they provided what they were contracted to provide. Are they banking on the nostalgia they hope I have for where I spent my time for a few years? If that's the case I'd be more inclined to donate to the high school I went to. Unlike my college, they could probably use the money.
When I lived on my own in Florida, I bought a set of silverware that I really, really liked, primarily because it was the heaviest silverware I could find. The forks have only three tines, too, which I like.
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