(r) = rhapsody playlists, (v) = video, (lv) = "bloody portal wanabes", launch video (ies) = "Internet Exploder sucks, but its required", (M) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician Reference, (A) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician/Album References, otherwise.. (____) = ____ is what it is.
This site is managed with GVIM, Filezilla and PHP, yeah I code my own stuff..
Due to the nature of this blog, archives have to be provided in seperate locations, to
get back to the most recent blog, simply click on the default link. The site will always
link to the most recent one.
Youtube + Me = Chann3lz, a completely random music video playing jukebox of content, managed by the audience, no registration necessary, all mechanism, no policy..
If you want your own netcast (netcast = podcast, Apple is trademarking podcast), but are not sure how to set one up, get my drop-it-in netcast generator script. Script is provided as-is, use at your own risk, thus I'm not liable if somehow you don't get it to work or it eats your cattle and causes you to lose a bunch of money.
My tutorials require Real Video not because I'm a Real-Rhapsody fan, but because RealVideo happens to be the best format for low-bandwidth tutorials
Rhapsify Everyhit.com looks for albums of a date range precise to a month, providing links to rhapsody-online (and YouTube). YouTubeify Everyhit.com is much better for tracking down music videos to precise songs on "YouTube.com".
BEST WAY TO PERUSE YOUTUBIFIED LINKS
go to url "about:config" in address bar of firefox browser.
toggle 'browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs' to true (pre 1.5; post v1.5, search Advanced Options )
then middle mouse click on each youtubified search link
click on the videos, bookmark, make into playlists, enjoy..
Alternative Content Discovery:Blogdigger, WebJay Trouble Viewing Videos? You need some Codecs: Matroska Pack (good), free-codecs (works, but it may have a Trojan) Need to convert Media format X to media format Y? Use Mediacoder its a freeware media swiss army knife, that is supposedly open source (its on sourceforge, huh?). Need to convert video formats that Mediacoder doesn't? Use AVS Convert , I own a copy myself, and it lets me do stuff with Quicktimes and WMV's that neither Microsoft nor Apple will permit me (note the site looks kinda cheap, but the program isn't. My most favorite rhapsody playlist:Smooth And Punchy Playlist My most favorite bands (and most played): Level 42 (r), Nik Kershaw, Cock Robin, Double (not played, on my wishlist), etc. My most favorite years (musically):1978 (r), pretty much any year from 1976 to 1989 My most favorite movie (note: works, and could be made on a low budget):Brainstorm Most Favorite Music Video (5/12/07):Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to The Rhythm..
Why is this page so huge: Google can cache it all, audience is broadband users, I use less than 50% of my quota per month. Your most favorite rhapsody playlist:The Brian Eno Playlist Big application wish: SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! PRESET EXPORT, so I can share with you some of my killer rooms.
Cool way other than Chann3lz for listening to audio.
Bag 'O' Tricks Directory lists tips/tricks and reminders and other stuff I would love to clog my header with.
* - Wikipedia is edited by anarchy, don't use for christian inspiration. Christian Bahai is a oxymoron BTW. *! - I use Zonealarm Pro, which is what that flash demo is demonstrating, ZoneAlarm costs about fifty dollars a
year with updates, but is well worth it, it also comes with spyware weeding software, so there is no need for an application like "Ad-Aware",
"Spybot Search & Destroy" or "Spyware Doctor".
Companies/Organizations I Currently Consider Evil or Stupid:
Why?: Claims to save time and accelerate processing
Frankenstein, differnt from musicians who lip sync, this is the old
grey whistle test, you best believe this is live. This is some 13 years before the MIDI standard, and ten years before samplers..
The only thing you could use at the time was analog synthesizers.. That's an ARP 2600 edgar winter is using ( I wonder if that is
where they got the name for the Atari 2600).. BTW, Stevie wonder calls them crap..
Blondie with Rapture, which is the event spoken of in Revelations of
the Bible (a book that was written sometime after Jesus death, which was included into the canon because it was already pretty
popular, many don't really consider it to be true, but those who do are the ones that think that with the coming of Christ, people
are going to be snatched up individually..). But nothing was said about a man from mars..
This has got to be the erriest John Lennon song in existence.. It's
like he was dead already when he recorded this, notice he's doing the elvis impersonation even.. And what the heck is that ghostly
talk at the end??
Danny Elfman is Tim Burtons right hand man, anytime Tim makes a
movie, Danny does the music score.. Such as for Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands, and so
forth..
Wow I had no idea so much work went into sound
racks.
(10/26/07 2:29 AM): No I haven't been sitting around all night playing videos, I did eat.. I was testing out a few features I added to the "Everyhit UK"
script.. I am making a link between it and my "update_channel" script, so that if you click on the (CZ) link next to musician
names and songs, it will launch into a full screen continuous playing of videos for that musician and/or song. That's how I came up
with Branson sighting.. I was going through a few of XTC's top hits on everyhit.. To test out the new feature.. Also I fixed the
continuous play feature so that when it runs out of videos, it doesn't stutter repeating nothing.. It just sends the viewer to
chann3lz in "stop" mode.. So now you can watch videos from a particular musician or of a certain keyword search, like "disco" and
let it roll.. Note, if you go into full screen mode in chann3lz, and set the screen size, it will carry on over into
"update_channel.php". It has to do with the fact that al the scripts on chann3lz share the same session information.. Sometime
when I get around to it, I will add in screen size controls into "update_channel".
(10/26/07 2:21 AM):
The Commodores would be proud of this Commercial, its probably
inspired by "shees a brick..... house ... she's mighty mighty .. just letting it all .... hang ....
out".
(10/23/07 7:40 AM): Steve Jobs needs to shave off his hair.. This is how you do it Steve, I may come up with a more complete
tutorial, in video form. But here is the trick..
First put papers on floor in front of bathroom mirror.
Get
some electric clippers, even the clippers on the back of a electr razor might do, but takes longer..
Start it up. Now hold
clippers such that clippers can't gouge into head if accidenty dropped, preferably you use clippers like this: Wahl Clippers . Take the blunt
end and let it rest on your head with clipping part aimed upward, hold in hand such that if you were to look at it now, in front of
you, you are holding it like a can of coke, but with your thumb running up the side.
Hold with two fingers on back side of
clippers, and the thumb riding on the front where the wahl or screw is in the image.. Flip the clippers so blunt side is facing
back, and down, and So the clipping side is facing forward, toward your bathroom mirror..
Take your other hand (I'm using
my right hand to hold clippers, get left hand to do this next thing). Get the left hand to feel where the clippers will be, so you
have some idea of if the spot needs clipping or not.. It doesn't matter how far in front the left hand is.. Sometimes I plant a
finger on the clipper base, to keep my hand in front of the clippers, so I don't get razed..
Just run the clippers along
your head in this configuration, and keep shaving until your hair is down to about 10 mm, or less.. The shorter, the less time it
takes to shave with a razor.. Avoid letting clipping line point to head, as if you make a mistake it will gouge into your
head..
Job done.. No pun intended.. Now, step in shower.. Run water somewhat warm, but a light trickle, so you can use it
only when you need to. Stand in shower, soap up head, with a lather, then get your shaving cream and lay that on.. Avoid soap
contact with eyes.. Keep it heavy enough to shave, light enough that it doesn't run into your eyes.. Take and hold mach 3 like you
did with the clippers, upside down, flat side to head, cutting side facing toward bathroom mirror, and I'm assuming you were facing
bathroom mirror when you were usin the clippers, same principle, just no mirror now, you are in the shower.. Anyhow, two fingers on
back, one thumb on front of razor neck, or you could dangle the neck between your middle and index finger and use the thumb to
guide razor head and anchor on head, keep it at a tilt, but don't hold razor, let it pivot so that if you were to drop it it
couldn't cut you.. Use your left hand to feel head, and run the razor back of head to front of head, with cutting side facing
front.. Do this until the hair is cut until you can't feell anymore stubble.. Add more lather/shaving cream, if parts of the head
are dry or need more soap.. Use shower head to rinse off head and razor, so as to get rid of excess hair cuttings.. Eventually you
will have a baby smooth head, and no sign of hair.. Don't worry, Your fingers are sensitive to feel hairs your eyes can't see.. I
usually get most of the hair, aside from a few patches..
Another thing, when using razor, do not let the razor move
lateral, like don't let it move such that it could slit you, because it will.. That's an easy way to get a bleeding cut, if you
keep it running forward, iwthout moving it laterally, you will not get a cut.. BTW, I can shave my face so fast with a mach 3, it
takes me about 2 to 3 minutes to shave around the goatee.. So when I shave my head, I shave like a mad man, moving the razor back
and forth over back of head like I was erasing the hair with the razor.. IF you don't move the razor laterally, you will be
okay..
That's it, after you do it about 10 times, you will do it without even really thinking about it much.. But it
takes me usually 30 minutes or less to do the whle job.. I maybe had a barber do the first two for me.. I was in New York when I
had it first done, and there is nothing more embarassing than having a bunch of jewish barbers ridicule you while having it done
(jewish people, I suppose, hate to shave their heads).. I'm saving you the ridicule Steve.. Now you can do it in no time at all
without the ridiculing jewish guys.. BTW, I don't use a electric razor for the job, never, they would just slow down the job, and
my skin is really sensitive.. The Mach 3 is safer than a electric razor.. In any case, chase your work with some cologne, or
something with alcohol to kill the sting that might ensue.. Put on some body wash.. Wash head, and go about your usual acitivies..
You just shaved your head..
(10/23/07 12:59 AM):
I
don't put up much if I don't see it on chann3lz, I discovered these on chann3lz.. Meaning I didn't put them up, someone did
though..
(10/20/07 2:32 PM):
(10/18/07 5:52 PM): Everyone Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is released.. The major additives, besides the usual device drivers and such, a
tickless kernel (I assume that means it doesn't use regular interval interrupts or something of the sort.. But I don't know.. Its
supposed to be lower power, but someone did some tests and found that wasn't true.. Anyhow, it is supposed to come with 3D games,
and Compiz Fusion embedded.. You've seen Beryl, Compiz is like twice as good..
Looks like some place in Texas, but this is France.. I think.. Funny
video.. Again, I found this on chann3lz, I have no clue who put it up..
(10/13/07 2:34 PM): I drink tea these days, my favorite combination is like light green tea and pepermint. Best to let the stuff
sit for a day, thats what usually happens to mine. I'll make a cup, with two tea bags, and leave it somewhere in the house, then
pick it up and drink it. It tastes better than if I had just brewed it in the microwave oven.. Another thing I did in the way of
drinks, I have a espresso making machine, and I grind my own bean. I drop the grounds into a conical pile in the espresso scoop,
then circle the pile with 100% cocoa, that makes a capuccino that takes the edge off the acidity of the bean. I got some
eight'o'clock hazzelnut, I hopw its a light roast, hear light roasts have more caffiene in them. I drink tea, because I'm addicted,
its got anti-oxidents, and prevents tooth decay and freshens your breath (because it kills bacteria), and it just plain tastes
better.. But I drink coffee for caffiene, when I o drink it, which is not often. But what I drink all the time is diet pepsi max,
which has mofr caffiene than practically all the soft drinks except for things like redbull. Diet Pepsi max has like 70 to 80 mg of
caffiene, and coffee is like 100-140 mg. But per ounce the ratio is even less..
(10/12/07 4:31 PM):
memorable Simon and Garfunkel performance from the 80s, I can't
believe someone besides me put this up on chann3lz.. I usually never see stuff like this on chann3lz.. It's usually someone like
the beastie boys..
So I'm sitting here, just listening to music from chann3lz.. I'm not going to name off
everything that comes in order, but only the stuff I like..
Yea, this immediately followed with some stone roses.. Wow what
luck.. Band from the 90s..
(10/08/07 11:47 AM): I don't know enough about epilepsy, had a friend whose child dropped down into a seizure, never seen one
before until that, and it lasted more than a few seconds like some videos I've seen. Anyhow, I had heard about the ketogenic diet,
some years earlier, maybe just a year earlier in a "60 minutes" story about a doctor that denied his patients information about
this diet in the course of treatment, and I guess but don't recall, I think they threw a malpractice suit at him (probably failed)
and then put the story up on 60 minutes.. The problem there I suppose is some doctors are not educated enough, or haven't the time
outside of trying to get the insurance companies to give them enough money to earn what a doctor who is outside of a the "primary
care physician networks" gets paid because patients understand the real deal, like me (doctors off "insurance dope" have more time
to read and learn, and thus have better chance to care for patients and avoid malpractice suits, that take everything even the
practice. Note to patients that file these suits, you get nothing, you maybe get justice, but what is it worth, the lawyer takes
everything. Lawyers, you do what you do if there is a market for it, who can blame you).. Anyhow, that out of the way.. The problem
with drugs is that the FDA requires like 5 year trials for new drugs, and if the drugs pass trials, they can release the drugs to
doctors.. When drugs go over the counter, that happens when the formula for the drug falls off patent. Patented drugs are the dope
of drug companies. They make more money selling drugs that are on patent. For one, investors go for stocks where a company has a
patent, this means they have exclusivety.. Now something like 10% of new drugs (as claimed by a audio book I heard on drug
companies, something distributed by "recorded books", you'll find it) are real innovations, the rest are drugs that have been
manipulated to be re-patented.. See what I mean, its the dope of a drug company to get drugs on patent.. Insurance companies are
like huge consumers, they advise their payers to buy generic drugs, because they know this.. But the dope of insurance companies is
to increase the margin, the probability that any of those paying for insurance or those work will get sick has a certain
probability, if you get sick a lot your premiums go up, so as to increase margin (to keep Insurance company from going in debt)..
The Insurance companies maintain financial formulas that keep them above water.. Anyhow, the point is, the long term use of drugs
is "unknown", to be fair to drug exploration, to solve problems, the FDA's trials/tests are long enough to weed out most drug side
effects, but short enough to be fair to researchers and companies who file patents, and such. But given that this is a business,
its focus is to make money and satisfy investors, consumers usually come last unless the consumers "revolt and bolt" which is the
only way to slap the wrists of any company. Public relations in companies are geared toward preventing this reponse in any way
possible.. It reminds me of WC Fields as a salesman constantly saying to the kid that tugs on his pant-leg, "mister", "go away son
you are bothering me." That's what PR agencies do basically, they try to calm people down, convince them that there is no problem,
and reason with them about how to fix a problem, but worse yet, for some PR's is to "tell you what you should think." I was told in
a media 101 course, in college, that PR and Marketing got mixed somewhere in the past, and PR is has become this entity that
ignores the consumer but advertises to the consumer what they should think, or diverts their attention, diverts intent, anything to
avoid "revolt or bolt". Anyhow, let me get back to the point, Kiernan come out of the recursive rant, come on, come you can do it.
Okay Drug companies are 10% good, and 50% fair and 40% bad, and 100% business (which is either evil or good played out).
Diets on the other hand, nobody benefits from them, but consumers.. And people who sell books on diets. If the diet works, and
works mysteriously (probably meaning, nobody but government institutions that protect people, put money into the research to
determine why diets work, I assume), again to restate, if a diet works and nobody knows why, and its been around for a while, it's
unstoppable, and therefore should be known.. The Ketogenic diet, for Epilepsy is just such a beast, but not a beast that wil eat
you, maybe a beast that will eat drug companies, insurance companies, and such.. But good beast to "otherwise consumers of drugs".
The best part of the ketogenic diet is that it eventually does away with Epilepsy in some patients, and for all others that it
works, which is a great percentage (do your research on google), experience a reduced number of epilectic episodes. It's a
dangerous diet, maybe, but why would it be for children who have metabolisms that "eat everything in sight" without really harming
them? Diets are more bad for adults because their bodies are not growing, adults bodies deal with upkeep, however children's bodies
are growing and having to deal with upkeep, all that metamorphosis takes energy and throwing away of cells.. Adults probably don't
have that many cells that need to be replaced that frequently.. So children's metabolisms do much better than adults.. However
childrens immunity security doesn't have the wisdom of that adults do, so for things like viruses, bacteria, allergies, foriegn
substances, etc, like drugs for instance, children's bodies don't deal with those as quickly and in the right way as adult's bodies
do.. That's why children and seniors get clumped together into the same group, children's immunity is building while seniors
immunity is weakening, but it's like how spring and fall are the same, they are between, extremes, summer and winter.. Anyhow..
Seniors take more drugs and diets and such, than children, because there is really know choice, and they have to decide for
themselves. Children have a better chance of dealing with metabolizing stuff than Seniors or adults.. So with children the big
evil to their health is "drugs that might have longterm effects" (note: seniors don't deal with long-term effects, they are dealing
with risk management and prolonging life), and to children the other concern is immunity (something that needs to be built and
managed before it's too late). Metabolism, is only a problem for children if you are say taking laxatives (which can destroy the
digestive system), that effect metabolism, the development of food allergies, and such.. But really, what kid is going to have a
food allergy to fat? There is no such condition.. Fat is the long-term storage of energy.. When you body burns stuff, it burns it
in an order.. First fast carbs, then slow carbs, then fats, then protein, then you die. PEople who are anorexic, BTW, they take
laxatives, to get rid of fat, but what they do is destory their ability to digest, and in effect when they eat, feel full, which
spirals based on their psychological disposition into the assumption that they are still fat, and they stop eating, then the fat
goes away, they have to go on a liquid diet to get back to being somewhat normal, but if they ever get to the point where their
body is burning protein, something that happens in the last days of life, then I don't know, they could become healthy again, they
may lack some muscle, its chancy.. Just if you are trying to lose weight and you think you are not thin enough, don't take
laxatives!! There are good laxatives and bad laxatives, Metamucil is a good one, if you think laxatives do away with fats,
Metamucil has a better chance than senna or mineral oil. Senna is a bad laxtive, it evacuates stuff because it irritates your
bowel, the same effect that constipation has, you bowel produces enzymes and stuff to break up the waste and flush it out, called
diarhea. People who have a compromised digestive system, irritable bowel syndrome (which is more common than you think), usualy
have to take metamucil every day for life. IF you have this problem, this is the solution.. But irritable laxatives just make the
problem worse.. This is why on the package it says "do not take for more than three days, if you experience a change in bowel
habits, call doctor".. The government should really ban these drugs, but even the american indians ate strong chilli peppers to
deal with constipation (it's not something you can really control, because its so easy to make/get, like alcohol). Anyhow, this
run-on has runned enough.. I've covered way to many topics.. The main one is Ketogenic diets seem to work for children with
epilepsy, and should be considered above using drugs.. Actually anything with a long-term study of success, beit mystical, is a
good thing.. Remember doctors haven't a clue why Asperin works, nor what high blood-pressure does, and these are constants in the
medical profession.. Thats only because the knowledge is out there and can't be "perverted" to sell drugs.. Believe me, if there
was a way a drug company could put out negative rhetoric about asperin and patent a competitive product, they would do it.. And as
asperin causes problems in some people with stomach ulcers, there needs to be alternatives. Anyhow.. I'm stopping, whoooa horsey..
(10/08/07 3:48 AM): It seems that if I say something bad about a product, people respond badly, but if I give a good review of
something, people respond good..
(10/07/07 8:35 PM):
Why Nazism was Socialism and why Socialism is totalitarian. Quite
interesting bit of video..
(10/06/07 11:10 AM): Wow a week without blogging.. I was focusing more on my youtube videos, I've been doing a form of youtube
blogging.. I have an idea, great idea for a rock group, something like talking heads, but instead of saying words that sound
good together, say words in one language in a way as to say something in another language, so while the sequence of the words in
the native language make no sense, in the foreighn language they can be interpretted with some ease.. Then to have the lyrics
change around such as to use words in another language to say something say in the english language. I mean use the phonetic
qualities of words in another language to sound like words in another language (so as to say something meaningful in the other
language). There could be a lot of freedom in how the lyrics are used too.. Such music would be perfect for representation on
chann3lz, as the videos span borders.. In one song, I thought some brazillian singers were saying "get a tivo, get get a tivo".. I
think it would be nice to have for any video subtitles added to translate what is spoken to be interpretted in another language. So
say you have a french video, the words are translated to chinese, and when the video switches to an engish speaker, the subtitles
are of course in french. Eventually it would be great if youtube allowed multiple tracks for translations, even comic "ala MST2K"
translations..
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