| I'm in Rochester right now. I left Philadelphia with Tim and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gauk on Sunday May 13th at around 3pm. Tim and I arrived at Nik & Anya's in Rochester around 7pm Tuesday May 23rd. Unfortunately gauk couldn't continue because his knee was giving him problems and the rest day was not enough healing time for him to continue.
in 10 days Tim and I did:
516.1 Miles
32 hours ad 35 minutes of riding time
32,415 ft climbed (6.14 miles)
in the 5 days that gauk was with us we did:
195.3 mils
22 hours 39 minutes of riding time
14,059 ft climbed (2.66 miles)
I'll post a day-by-day journal sometime in the near future. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| | Tags: | itunes, mp3 | | Current Music: | Moloko - Dominoid (Panty Sniffer Mix) | | Subject: | iTunes Update | | Time: | 06:34 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) sleepy |
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| Another iTunes Update
Total Songs: 46,503 (down from last time)
Play-length; 131 days
weighing in at 205.14 GB
Of those iTunes thinks I have listened to 22,211 (59.4 days - 47.8%) and rated 20,699 (55.2 days - 44.5%) of them.
Breakdown according to Star rating
1 star: 11,534 (24.8% of total, 55.7% of rated, 30.1 days)
2 stars: 6,031 (12.9% of total, 29.1% of rated, 16.3 days)
3 stars: 2,620 (5.6% of total, 12.7% of rated, 7.2 days)
4 stars: 458 (0.98% of total, 2.21% of rated, 1.3 days)
5 stars: 26 (0.056% of total, 0.13% of rated, 2 hours)
i still have a ton of crappy music, but i have listened to and rated about 2,000 tracks (about 6 straight days worth) in the past month and a half. That of course doesn't include when i listen to tracks that were already rated or played.
Go me. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | iPod fixed | | Time: | 02:47 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) happy |
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| | So ignore my last LJ post. I took my iPod apart and put it back together. That seems to have fixed it... for now. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm convinced that iTunes is psychic or something.
The last two Tori Amos songs that came on were each immediately followed by a NIN song.
And earlier today The Cardigans cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was only a few tracks away from the original.
iTunes scares me sometimes.
That is all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yeah so instead of preparing for my Final in 30 minutes i'm dicking about online.
Because you all care (doubtful) here are some of my iTunes stats
Total songs: 46,572
played end-to-end would play for 131.1 days
taking up 205.36 GB on my computer
And according to iTunes i have listened to 20,080 of those songs (53.1 days or 43.3%)
but i have only rated 18,647 of those (49.2 days or 40% of the total)
Of the ones that i have rated
1 star : 10,165 (21.2% of total, 54.5% of rated, 26.1 days)
2 stars : 5,455 (11.7% of total, 29.2% of rated, 14.6 days)
3 stars : 2,383 (5.1% of total, 12.7% of rated, 6.5 days)
4 stars : 428 (0.9% of total, 2.3% of rated, 1.2 days)
5 stars : 28 (0.061% of total, 0.15% of rated, 2.2 hours)
(the addition discrepancy is because iTunes only half-supports half-star ratings, maybe more on this later)
wow I have alot of crappy music
Maybe i'll cull some of the 1 stars songs and see how the numbers improve.
Ok i'm done boring you now.
If any of you are interested in What i'm listening to check out this page http://www.last.fm/user/downloadjunkie/ | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| So i'm installing software on a computer for work. Part of the process is to clean up the start menu so that it doesn't take up two pages. One thing that i do is to put al the various video players into a multimedia group in the start menu.
I was testing Quicktime to see if it worked and then i noticed that it was back in the root of the start menu. So I delete it. I test it to make sure it works again. It shows up again. I pore over the options in the program to see if there is an option to turn this off. Nope no luck.
Later on I find out that the program that I am running from the start menu isn't quicktime, it's a program that makes sure that quicktime is on the desktop and in the "proper" location on the start menu that then runs quicktime. (i found out from here)
Wow this is insidious.
What gives them the right to modify my start menu on my computer?
I'm still shocked. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | So a friend of mine posted this one of her journals. </br>
it's George Galloway on Sky News (British). </br>
He has a different take on the whole Israel - Lebanon thing. </br>
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Take 9 minutes and watch it.</br>
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( You tube Video ) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Beatles - Within You Without You (instrumental) | | Current Location: | home | | Subject: | stupid Ads | | Time: | 09:14 pm | | Current Mood: | dumbfounded |
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| So there are these stupid Roadside billboards i see on my way to work that only have two little bits of information on them.
one reads:
6+6+06
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
the other reads:
6+6+06
IT'S CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
except the plus (+) signs look like upside down christian crosses.
I saw these and wondered WTF? if you are going to advertise something you should probably tell me what you are advertising. Cuz that advertising is pointless i cannot want to buy something if i have no idea what it is. (not that i would want to buy anything that is advertised at me)
So i did some internet research (read i used google). Most of the first three pages were about some christian groups beleiving the end of days is near and 6/6/06 has something to do with it. On about the third page i found a news article about the billboards causing problems in Daytona Beach (see http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01032506.htm for more info. Apparently it is an advertisement for a movie that is coming out on 6/6/06. (it's actually a remake of this movie) Gee maybe if there was some actual information on the billboard people wouldn't get all uppity about it. (though i guess the advertising campaign worked because i devoted 10-15 minutes to researching what the hell it was, but then again i'm a special person and i get anal about things so i'm not a "normal" case)
i had so much more to put here but i can't think of anything now. i'm spent. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | bike | | Time: | 10:40 pm | | Current Mood: | tired |
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| Warning Another Bikie Related journal:
So I have been training on the bike 2-3 times a week and have been getting in some really good workouts. I have been ingorning all else for it (well it and my PhillyNORML obligations) So I decided to travel with the Drexel Cycling team to Boston this past weekend to try my hand at racing again (My first race involved me flatting halfway through as I was catching back up to the main group)
We left Philly Friday at 6p or so, arrived at the hotel 11:30 where we fit 14 people in 2 rooms we get to bed at midnight only to get woken up at 1a by another team member who decided to drive up later. Wake up at 5am to leave by 6a. I stand around all day cheering on the team while freezing my butt off. (i can't race on saturday because i'm not a college student). Finally leave the race course at 6p, after other adventures and a home-cooked meal we squeeze all 14 of us into various nooks and crannies in a relatively small house and getto bed at a reasonable 10-11pm.
Wake up on Sunday early as hell again (don't remember the exact time, but it was still dark) get to the new race course around 7am, where i get to cheer people on until 3:15p when I get to race. When the fateful time arrives I line up with everyone else waiting for the start whistle, and we're off. I stay with the lead group for about a lap and a half (1km loop with 6 90degree turns, 4 of them involving hills in some way) when my left knee decides it doesn't like me anymore and wants to take the day off. I push through the rest of the lap and watch the main group pull away. I try to take it a little easy during the next lap and not get too far behind but after a few laps off the back the officials pull me from the course (because apparently i was dropping too far back and the lead group was too close to lapping me) so i pulled off and cooled off a little bit to help my knee recover. so the stats for the weekend
Driving miles: 650-700
driving hours: 14-16
sleep hours: 10-12
miles raced: 2-3
minutes raced: 15
On a scale of 1-10: non-racing:8 ... racing:2
And i still haven't had a chance to look at my heart rate monitor to see what my average and Max heart rates were for the time on the bike. I'm scared it's going to be something like 190-200 (the most i have ever seen in training is 185) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| My thoughts on the recent fervor over the sale of a bunch shipping ports from a British based company to a company based in the United Arab Emirates
See :http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=dubai+ports for more info
Ok so these ports *that_have_already_been_controlled_by_a_foreign_company* are being sold to another foreign company. Both companies are based in countries that we are allied with very strongly. Neither company handles the security at the ports (in fact the security is maintained by the US Coast Guard, among US-based companies).
One of the other things said about this deal is that the 9/11 terrorists used the UAE (United Arab Emirates) as a financial and operational base. Umm.... didn't they also use the *_USA_* as an operational and financial base? Weren't the pilots of the planes taught how to fly here .. in New Jersey? Aren't we still finding leads here that point to financial backers in our own country?
EVERY country has underground networks of people trying to do bad things. It's what they are doing about it that makes them good or bad (and from what I understand the UAE is helping the investigations terrorist activity immensely)
So the difference between the two countries are the following two things:
Predominant skin color
Predominant religion
So why are so many people clamoring for this deal to be squashed? I can't see any problems with it.
(Sure I would like it if a US company was taking this over because that would mean more jobs and more jobs leads to less crime and a whole slew of good things, but the people on the ground, the actual workers will not change no matter who owns the company)
The way I see it our elected officials are effectively trying to enact laws limiting the rights of non-judeo-christians and I find it ridiculous.
Please correct me if i am wrong, PLEASE PLEASE tell me I am wrong. I really hope that our elected officials aren't this xenophobic and Anti-Arab.
(All Arabs aren't bad people, just like all Americans, British, Europeans, etc aren't good people) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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