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Jobs & Gates, Together Again!
May 2007 Archives
It took me a whole lot longer than I was expecting, but as of 8:45 p.m. ET, I have finally finished playing every single song in my music library. For those of you too lazy to click on the link, I’ve been listening to every single song in my iTunes library in alphabetical order (more or less) since January 1. It looks like I originally thought that I might get done in mid-March. Heheh.
Let’s run the numbers:
- 7,598 tracks
- 24 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes, 14 seconds of total playing time
- Average track length was 4 minutes, 42 seconds
- 149 days of calendar time
- 51 tracks per day (on average)
- 3 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds listening per day (on average)
- First song played: “?Y Tu Que Has Hecho?”, The Buena Vista Social Club
- Last song played: “Zyphormius”, Marumari
I’m never doing this again.
This link takes you to a photograph of the most secret baseball field in the world.
My only question is when they play, is it aliens v. humans or are they allowed to mix it up?
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Walking is for suckers.
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Diner Slang—did you know that frog sticks are french fries?
Bit-by-bit, inch-by-inch, I’m slowly becoming engulfed by a creeping tide of Web 2.0-ism. After all, I’ve got Last.fm, del.icio.us, Vox, MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, and Flickr accounts (and no doubt that I’ve forgotten some). Do I use them all? Uh, no—but that’s not really the point here, is it?
I’ve given up on having a single IM account because too many of my friends use incompatible services. And now I find myself twittering along with the rest of the digerati.
As an aside, that’s an absurd number of different log-ins—but on the other hand, sometimes segregation of services is a good thing.
I feel a bit like Locutus of Web 2.0—You Will Be Assimilated.
The really sad thing is that I still don’t know what Web 2.0 means—if it means anything at all.
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“And in Bamberg, I would try the elusive rauchbier, a beer made with wood-smoked malt that is said to taste like liquid bacon.”
I have to admit that finishing law school has been rather anticlimactic.
I think that part of that is that instead of finishing up with an in-class final, the last two assignments I finished were a take-home exam and a paper. So instead of being triumphant at school with friends, I rather finished my law school career sitting at home, clicking on ‘send’.
In addition, I managed to only have one day off between ending my academic career (until further notice) and the start of the bar review course (that would have been today). And that I just spent eight hours learning criminal law and criminal procedure—or at least enough to pass the bar.
While it seems like just yesterday I was starting school, it’s been a long, strange trip. I have to admit that I had no idea what I was getting into when I started—and I think that most people who go through law school would say the same. At the same time, I’m glad that I went through it, and I think that I’m probably better off for having done it. I’ve grown a lot, and I’ve done some things that I wouldn’t have thought I was capable of.
Having said that, I have to say that law school is very good at producing people who are going to be lawyers. Not so good at producing people who are good at other things, though. And if you’re going to go through law school just because you don’t know what else to do after you graduate, well, don’t.
So what’s next for me?
Well, my immediate future is dominated by two things—the bar exam and preparing for it. And then? I have a job for the twelve months starting in September. It’s not in New York (close enough to visit), but that’s OK with me—I think that after 11 years in the big bad city, it might be time for me to take a bit of a break from the bustling metropolis. After that? well, look at it this way: life is a series of crossroads, some larger than others. And the one coming up is gonna be a pretty big one.
In other news, I have exactly 500 songs left in the great countdown; it’s taken me somewhat longer than I was expecting, but I’m in the Vs, and the end is finally in sight….
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I want this clock.
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Not so much international applicability, but still good to know.
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Holy crap. No only does this guy make a living repairing high-tension lines while they’re still in service, he gets there by hitching a ride on the outside of a helicopter.
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Steve Martin clears up a few misconceptions about King Tut.
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RMacK’s class hits the web. Check it out.
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One way to avoid a speeding ticket is to drive so fast they can’t catch you.
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“For younger readers, the compact cassette consisted of two miniature spools between which a magnetic tape was passed and wound. This mechanism was housed in a protective plastic shell.”
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The Times samples gin.
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Spectacular shot of a United 747-400 on final approach at Kai Tak.
The good people over at Something Awful have come up with a contest to make grindhouse-style movie posters for various famous movies.
My favorite, though, is the poster for Robocop; it’s arguably better than the real poster.
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…code for feel free to bullshit.
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“… while Rice has succeeded in increasing her own personal power, she failed to enhance America’s [power] internationally.”
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One of the original Mercury 7 blasts off on his final mission. Godspeed.
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Free Range Children.
You know, it might not be a legitimate email when it starts off
Dear Customer, elfofcamelot.
You are receiving this message, due to you protection, Our Online Technical Security…
Oh, and there’s the small matter of not actually being a customer of the bank that allegedly sent the email…
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Speakeasies in the Big Apple
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It is!
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Title sez it all.
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What’s one more queen in the village, after all?