http://www.flasshe.com Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:21:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Conversation overheard today at Wendy's between two guys standing next to me in line (verbatim): Guy 1: "Are you an actor?" Guy 2: "Huh? No." Guy 1: "Because you look like that Snoop Dogg dude." Guy 2: [Who, actually, did not look to me like Snopp Dogg: Silence, shakes head slightly] Guy 1: "He's got ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/30/a-microcosm-of-modern-america-in-the-wendys-line/ One of the positive benefits of digitally archiving all my CDs is that I get to hear a lot of things that I haven't heard in (literally) decades. The iPod in my car is set up with a random playlist of things added to iTunes in the last year, ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/29/kink-in-america/ Yes, even though this blog is, for all intents and purposes, dead (or at least the approval rating has dropped like Leno's ratings), I feel I must mark the anniversary anyway. Six years, woo hoo! Of course, there hasn't been much going on here for the last year. The ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/20/zomblog/ This past weekend, I went out and saw the disaster-porn flick 2012. I know, I know... but I have some gift cards to use up, and it looked like pretty eye candy. Well, if you consider the end of the planet to be eye candy... which in ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/16/and-i-feel-fine/ I've just reached a milestone in my CD Archiving project. You didn't think I was still doing that, did you? Actually, with everything else going on, that kind of got put by the wayside. I've been starting it back up again lately. And guess what... I ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/12/cd-archiving-5-milestone-a/ Yeah, I know. I thought I was getting back into this whole blogging thing when I started in with the CD Archiving posts. But then there was a family crisis (ask me for the password), and the aftermath of that has been taking up a lot of my ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/04/fielding-the-sound/ An essential part of my CD archiving adventure is not only having sufficient disk space to store the FLAC and MP3 files, but also enough space on a separate drive to store backups of them. Heaven forbid I should lose all the files in a hard drive crash and ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/16/cd-archiving-4-adventures-in-modern-mass-storage/ This series could go on forever, so I figure I should list up front the process and tools I'm using. That way, if anyone wants to jump in and emulate what I'm doing, this can be used as the go-to guide. I'll go into the details in subsequent ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/13/cd-archiving-3-the-write-tools/ In part 1 of this series, I posed the question of what to do about archiving my CD collection to my PC if I wasn't going to use the MP3 format? That wasn't strictly the right question, since my desired target solution still involved MP3s as part of the ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/12/cd-archiving-2-flac-racket/ I'm taking a break from my very exciting CD Archiving series to bring you this special Pet Peeve of the Day: The television sets at the local fitness center that I frequent. First of all, on any given day, a few of them will be off/out of order. Currently 2 ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/11/channeling-inappropriate-content/