Q: What do you call a geek with no clothes on?
A: Bernard.
(it’s payback for this one by Lewis Carroll.)
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it is done
1626 Artists / 1124 Albums / 17082 Tracks / 39.4 Days / 70.15 GB.
That was a lot of ripping.
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owl
also seen at the zoo.
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i was supposed to be looking at bigger animals
but here is a chipmunk I saw at Toronto Zoo
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oh my
Google sponsored link in gmail:
By the way the result page reads, Egypt, Lebanon and Zimbabwe are about to get theirs. -
i’d like to apologize
for submitting The Music Tapes‘ Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes to freedb under the genre reggae; all the other genres I tried had a disc ID clash.
Above all, though, draw a tiny musical note on your acorn.
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less than 100 CDs to go …
1492 Artists / 999 Albums / 15245 Tracks / 34.9 Days / 62.12 GB
(and here’s me thinking I had about 2000 CDs, too)CDs that wouldn’t read: 0 (so far). That’s not to say that there weren’t some difficulties (copy-controlled CDs can go die, glitching and gronking in my drives) and my oldest CD (XTC’s Skylarking, my copy of which I think has just turned 20) had a ton of retries.
Lost CDs: Thomas Dolby’s Aliens Ate My Buick is somewhere in the house, but nowhere I’ve looked.
Found CDs: My long-lost promo copy of the (Portland) Decemberists’ Picaresque, which I thought had vanished in a road trip to Missouri. It was lurking in a long-forgotten portable CD player in the bottom of a storage bin.
Pleasant surprises: that freedb is generally better than it used to be.
Peeves: copy-controlled CDs (see above); flappy cardboardy cases that only have the title on one spine; oversized CD cases (Japanese imports, I’m looking straight at you), dark blue text on a black background, idjit freedb submitters who insist on Band, The syntax or worse, submit whole albums called sdfsdf;aefhsdf; bonus DVD “premium” releases (who watches these?).
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an appropriate use of company time
$ pbmtext Hello | pnmcrop | pnmtopnm -plain | tail +3 | tr '01' ' #' ### ### ## ## # # # # # # # # # # ## # # ## ###### # # # # # # # # #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # ### ### ### ###### ##
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song counts
1332 Artists / 774 Albums / 12074 Tracks / 27.1 Days / 47.34 GB
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telling groceries
The person in line in front of me had:
- a birthday cake
- an “I am 5” candle
- a bottle of Advil.
I’m pretty sure I know what their day holds.
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ripping dvd audio with Ubuntu
With more than a little help from How to Rip DVD audio to mp3 or ogg — Ubuntu Geek, here’s how I’d rip audio from a DVD:
for f in $(seq 1 12)
do
transcode -i /dev/sr1 -x null,dvd -T 1,$f,1 -N 0x1 -y null,wav -m $(printf "%02d" $f).wav
done
Your track count and device name will vary. You’ll note that I caved, and used the annoying $(…) syntax instead of good old-fashioned backticks (which some youngsters will claim are deprecated, but I claim as job security). WordPress munges those badly, so we’re stuck with the ugly.
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bet they’re chuffed
The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has just completed the first new steam locomotive in the UK for, ooh, basically ever. Not quite sure why they chose such an antiquated design, but hey, keeps them out of the way of the buses.
