’scuse me while I kiss the sky…
No it’s not purple haze. I just have some new photos up and thought it was a nice cliché way to announce it, seeing as how I’ve been all Hendrix-y lately. Careful with the photos. They’re bigger than usual in both dimension, and filesize (around 60k). I only hope you find them worth the wait.
HAave I mentioned how much I like pink lately? It’s fast become my favorite weblog. Jo is intelligent, witty, and she᾿s a word freak. What more could you ask for? Well, pictograms of course! But dammit, she’s got them too!
My earlier outburst was due to stress brought on by browser wrangling.
Just when you think you have a handle on things, and your life in order, you wind up naked in times square, with tinfoil on your head, waiting for aliens to pick you up and whisk you to a land where browsers all render the same output, no matter what platform they’re on.
Thanks to Charles and Dan for pointing out my Mac deficiencies, and for the help with the screenshots, and taking the time to look at my test pages. In the current vernacular, I owe you guys mad props. You guys rock!
Turns out every other browser—maybe I should say every PC browser—maybe I should be specific and just say the PC versions of IE5.5, NS6.x and Opera 5.11—all displayed my layout as I intended. The Mac version of IE5 did not. For reasons, I’m not completely sure about yet. Now Opera is the only browser my layout blows up in. Why? I don’t know, and I don̻t wanna know. At least not at the moment. The scroller never worked in Opera anyway, so it was basically useless there. I᾿ll still be trying to optimize things, but I’m almost afraid to touch it at this point. Right now I feel like I’m in the internet of a thousand hells. I’ll explain more later.
One of my favourite movies has to be His Girl Friday. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are amazing in this fast paced, Howard Hawks classic. It’s a shame they don’t make films like this anymore; or actors like this.
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. For the next [insert random number of days, hours, minutes, seconds], we will be conducting a multitude of tests on the system. If this were an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to kiss your ass good-bye. Then again, maybe not. Timing is everything.
We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.
FUCKING BROWSERS! YOU SUCK!
Oh yeah, Macs suck too. Lord Jeezus take me now!
Lossless digital music? I’m skeptical, and still trying to figure out why they’re using another format to do this. If the files are that big, leave it as a .wav file for chrissakes. I love this quote:
’If you trade a CD-R’s from MP3 audio, you are polluting the CD-R trading community.’
It stinks of audiophile snobbery.
I see where FlareSOUND is going with this, and it’s the same with a few others as well.
The problem I see with subscriptions (there’s talk of it in this forum) to interent radio is, that like standard radio, I like to switch stations occasionally, and at around $60 a year, it becomes rather ridiculous for me to subscribe to more than one station. So in this particular case, I find subscriptions to be the wrong choice. I know these guys do it for free, and for the love of music, and that bandwidth costs money, but another side of the cube that I see is that charging a fee places some extra responsibilty on them to provide what subscribers want to hear. The subscribers now have a say, real or implied, as to what gets played. After all, I’m now paying to hear you. If I am disappointed with my service, it could well piss me off to the point where they’ll lose me a subscriber.
I like the idea of donations, and monthly or quarterly donation drives. I’ve said it before. NPR does it, so why can’t some of these interent radio stations. There also must be some sort of government grants out there that these guys can apply for. After all, they’re non-profit, provide a public service, and can actually document the number of people that use their site.
I also know that with donation based services, there is a downside for the provider. If they don’t make their monetary goals, they shoulder the responsibility of paying any fees out of pocket. Yet I also see donation based service as a good thing, since I can donate to more than one provider on an ongoing basis. The provider also doesn’t have the same obligation to the donator that they might have to a subscriber (yes I know it’s only a slightly different perspective). They won’t have to cater to an audience so to speak. Simply based on donations they can tell that they are doing a good job.
It’s so difficult to come to any conclusions about where services like this will wind up, or what the best way to generate money to keep these services available is. I think it all comes down to the people who use them, and therein lies what I see as a problem for nearly every fee based service. Who’s your audience, and can they pay for a subscription or make a donation? Either one usually requires the use of a credit card. so where does that leave services whose main audience is teens and twenty-somethings who don’t have credit cards?
Mom, Dad, i want to subscribe to this really cool internet radio station, but it costs $60 a year for the subscription. Please, can I?
or
Hi Mom, yeah everything’s great here on campus. Can you ask Dad to send me an extra $60 for this book I need. I know Mom, but I spent it on a subscription to this great online radio station.
*holds phone away from ear as mother screams*
I’m sorry mom, but the music helps me study.
yeah right.
I don’t know what we’re gonna do, but somebody better think of something fast.
The start of tonight’s journey begins with what seems to be a fairly comprehensive look at the myth/hoax/reality surrounding the whole Paul Is Dead thing. The facts and clues on the Sgt. Pepper’s album alone give me chills. If you look at it all from start to finish, it’s pretty impressive and makes you stop and think. I found myself digging out CDs and albums just to see if these things were there. One of the only clues I found that didn’t pan out was the mirror trick with the drum on Sgt. Pepper’s. I couldn’t make it look like HE | DIE. but the rest is stunning in its far-reaching reimaginings (ha! used that stupid word) of Beatle folklore.
Veering off on a slight tangent, is everything you ever wanted to know about the butcher cover, which I had never seen nor heard of prior to tonight’s Beatle surfing escapades. /ed. note’We have previously mentioned that we live in a bubble, so get over yourself already, and don’t bother emailing us about how you’ve known about this for years, and how it seems impossible that we could not.]
For extreme audible eeriness, I offer up this site which has wav files of all the sound clues you’ll need to make a believer out of you. I never bought that Cranberry Sauce bullshit John was feeding everybody, and now maybe after you hear the “I buried Paul” file from the end of Strawberry Fields, you’ll feel the same.
Oh yeah, there’s also some great pictures, and picture galleries to be found here, and some better images of the album covers can be found here as well.
Last but not least, and so that no one can say I don’t offer equal time here, I give you the refutations in the Paul is Dead Treatise.
Paul is dead, Long Live Paul!
On behalf of the group and me’self I’d just like to say…
It needs more stuff to burn though. It’s over too quick.