foothills

feign your fane with fame and

i am living in a trailer for the first time in my life. it is interesting. i have always been happy in small confined spaces, just ask zahir about my dream house. but this confined space is badly designed and air doesnt circulate well in it, an observation that i didnt realize i have the faculty for making.

i am doing it because i am learning about drilling. it is a grand process that has many dirty metaphors for description. if you cant handle generally dirty metaphors you are no longer capable of handling me.

i smell like a mix between febreeze and elephant. tomorrow i will shower because i will have towels.

i like vegetables. i like salad. i guess what im driving at here is i fucking L0V3 dietary fiber. this has never been more apparent to me than this week.

hail. Es el ass ie. insofar, word.

06 Jul This entry was written by samir, posted on July 6, 2007 at 4:05 am, filed under 1 and tagged 2011, weird. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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before i get to the addendum let me just say that i have used the word addendum many a time in my life and it has always gone smoothly. but after hearing scotts usage on the phone i now relegate the word to a small niche of words to use in order to befuddle a specific audience. that said, i recently claimed i finally found bliss with the combination of itunes and vista. well bliss was rent asunder this week after experiencing crash after crash of itunes either in the act of or post ipod loading and/or while drilling down through my stupid music. this coupled with the fact that apparently itunes will NOT monitor a folder for changes, meaning if you rename, move, delete, or add music, itunes does not give a shit unless it was the sole proprieter. yes i know applescript has been tweaked out to handle this. this does not help me though. i digress. this spelled certain death for what i thought was finally a marriage made in steve and billz communal libido. well not to worry. because the fine folks at nullsoft have been working without my relentless support and adulation, and the newest winamp now has COMPLETE ipod support. i can transfer photos, video, music, rss feeds, and my puerile innocence to the ipod or zen vision:m or sansa or anything else at my leisure. HOORAY! i have always liked winamp and this is the nail that killed the construction worker when he hammered into the coffin. the fine benefits of using itunes over winamp? clean interface that was tried and true with a cleaner rss browser and simple scheduling for rss feed accumulation and disposal. plus the obvious dynamic playlists, ipod synchronization, and use of replay gain so that i dont rupture the OTHER eardrum. finer points of winamp! far more file type support, fully customizable interface, fully customizable dynamic playlists both locally and on ipod, full support for *all* features of ipod, monitoring of any folders i specify at specific intervals, lightweight, WAY cooler visualizations, DOESNT CRASH, full support for aggregation of audio rss feeds, and probably a buttload of other stuff i havent realized just yet. not to mention winamp uses less resources, uses a better (imo) skinning interface, and lastly the transcoding that was apparently added recently is flawless and fast as hell. thanks dudettes and dudes at winamp! i just peed my pants in happiness!

Newer: something tickled.

recent advances in software have had significant impacts on my life. you may remember some through your own experience or by proxy. either way you should know that more software is being written that gets shit done. i attribute this to the dudes that fight through the pain when they run linux, and the dudes that drink so much mountain dew their eyes are perm red. today another blow was dealt, imho, to email client inadequacity. i found a plugin for thunderbird https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2533 which will allow you to import/export or alternatively sync your addressbooks to a remote location using ftp https webdav. think foxmarks for thunderbird contacts. this is fantastic! i am not going to justify using thunderbird. if it has not become your client of choice you either do not need the power and simplicity it affords you for free, or you think webmail is the “best” mail. and even if you do use “best” mail you can do it through thunderbird now. google users are not immune to contact woes either. if you are not using a client locally to store your email you must be connected in order to access info. if you are doing that, you still dont have a good way to sync contacts, much less sync them over multiple computers. it is also possibly you are not an email whore like myself and do not need thunderbird because your life is not inextricably tied to the internet. i am not willing to respect you if you fall into that category though. so there you have it. i will probably not worry about staying on top of contacts any more thanks to the fine folks at mozilla and the fine work of guenter. thanks guys! lateral note: if you all start using directory synchronizer, we should all let guenter know, as well as thunderbird. this is the kind of feature that immediately catapults a program to the forefront in my opinion. i know microsoft outlook does it with webdav but not everyone has access to a webdav. whereas many people have access to ftp now. at the very least i hope development on this continues in future versions of thunderbird because after using it for the last 30 minutes i dont think i will be able to go back to Tools->Export->csv.

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