Love is a tired symphony

So, I'm here in Alexandria, yet again, but at the Dunn Brothers this time. (Jake, they actually are only a block apart, I guess there are either two or google maps just thinks Alex is huge or something. So you weren't told 'wrong'.) And I was talking with Meghan and she said something along the lines of: "I wish there was a way to see what everyone is listening to right now." The idea seemed really cool. Like a status update, but for what you're listening to, and in some sort of real time. I thought about how this could be done and it doesn't seem like it is impossible. With most all MP3 players going wireless like the iPod Touch, they could keep sending short updates to the web. This could also be done from user's computers by linking an application like iTunes to the Internet. I don't know if iTunes allows plug ins like that, but I'm guessing a script could get the now playing data and send it to the web. By linking this collection of what you play to something like a facebook app, you could easily see what your friends are playing.
It would have some difficulties, as it would be updated with each song and therefor pretty frequently. This could easily cause an overwhelming amount of data to be stored and interpreted by people. Maybe an update every time an album changes. There's always user set preferences for that stuff though.
I like this idea mainly because I like knowing what people are listening to and like to share what I'm listening to, but I can't update my twitter/facebook status every hour when I choose another album/band. So every once in a while I'll put what I'm into as my status, mainly as lyrics. One of those, I want this to only mean something to people who know this song and therefor are cool and should let me know that they know this song/artist and therefor are in a select group of people that can be my true friends by having heard this song that I probably got or gave to them, so therefor it is a lame excuse for verification of a friendship, statuses. You know like "Martin is an AC adapter with a DC switch" which I only know one person who could get it. it's like an exclusive club, but I could have easily said "Martin is listening to P.O.S." Anyways, you can ignore all that.
Having messed around with Conky and using meta data stuff from RSS feeds and twitter, I feel like I might be able to implement this into an actual thing. I wonder if this could be my ticket to the generation of "I'm going to make something clever and viral and then sell it for a million bucks." That'd be cool.

*Edit* I actually didn't realize that I did the "lyrics cool club" thing with the title of this blog post until now. It's from Iron and Wine - lion's mane.

P to the O S

So, P.O.S. just announced the release date of his next album, Never Better, as Febuary 3rd, 2009. This is awesome. If you goto Morris, or drive up occasionally, you might have caught P.O.S. when he played for the HomeKUMMing concert earlier this semester. You can download the track Goodbye off the album by going to RhymeSayers Entertainment site here and getting it. There are also tour dates and everything.
I'm pretty pumped for his third album, which is what he calls a winter album. This will be a great start to next semester's music awesomeness.

Interesting read on future of computing

Mainly for the CSci folk, but anyone can read it.
Here's the story.

I'll probably make another post about my thoughts, but I wanted to share this for now.

I was producktive

So, after I checked out the KUMM merch on sale today and bought some 10cent CDs I went to Alexandria to goto the Caribou. It was really quite productive for me. I got both my homework that is due today done AND the homework that was due two weeks ago and today is the last day to turn in mostly done. Like, I was productive for at least 5 hours today. I sent my calc prof an e-mail. And I listened to Crusades, which after this post I really wanted to listen to. I also got gas for $1.52. And I am now up till six watching garden state. Juno and Garden State have really good soundtracks in addition to being great indie movies. Music is great.

Music schnabbs

I think snobs drink schnapps because it's basically the same word. It sno and schna sound the same. And b is an upside p. Just a theory.
Anyways, I just watched Juno and kinda got bothered by Juno and Mark, the older dude who is kinda creepy with Juno. They talk about music in the most snobbish way possible. They only want to be the music superior-being compared to others. And, although I love music and have certain tastes, I try to never make anyone feel bad about either liking a band, not knowing a band, or not liking my favorite bands. I know I must do it subconsciously, but I never try to 'win' at music taste.
I have met some people that are like that and I usually just stop talking to them. Sometimes I forget and start digging a hole of a conversation only to remember that some people have unchanging minds. But as much as I want to scream at them to lighten up and listen, I know it wouldn't do anything and would basically make me the one trying to force my opinion on them. It's lame.
But yeah, it's late. I should probably goto bed. But actually, I'm going to make another post about what I did today. So, you probably already read that one since I'm posting this first and you'll read it second. What ever.

System.out.println("I Love programming!");

Because there are sometimes when I just rock an assignment. I was in class monday and everyone seemed to be having trouble with one lab project and I was basically done. It was great. The kid next to me said something like: "Man, I don't know even where to start with this lab, how about you?" and I nicely replied "Actually, I'm almost done." Problem was, he then tried to mooch my code off of me for the rest of the class. But it was alright because there is a reason it took me an hour+ to get comparable to work with my zombies. (if you aren't a csci major, you probably didn't understand that sentence. (okay, so it seems even compsci majors don't know what that means, your not alone) But then again, I don't expect anyone to fully understand what i say in my blog. Just be thankful text can't convey my mumbling. Anyways, so he kinda just gave me a blank look and stopped asking after a few minutes. So, it was really quite nice to have a confidence boost after not going to class for a week. But I actually should be doing a problem set for that class, so I'm going to go. (I just realized I am still in that parenthesized aside comment, oops.))

Funnel Bee

So, I went to the consular today to talk about possibly dropping my English class, and it turns out that they really don't deal with that stuff. But it was cool anyways I guess. I kinda found out by myself that my 'depression' is kinda dependent on what I am doing. Like, this weekend was very different for me because I hung out with different people. I went over to hang out with Emily and it turned out that Tessa, Remy, and Colin had all gone to the Doomtree show and so she and one of there other house members, David, had it mostly to themselves for the weekend. That meant that they got to be louder later into the night than usual. So it was a great weekend to go over I guess. I guess I had a misconception about how partyish the house was.
Anyways, it was out of the norm, which I liked. I saw people I rarely see. Then on Saturday I went back over for a 5 hour dinner. Well, Emily and friends started cooking at 6 and we ate at 11. There was an improv show in there somewhere, but still, it was good I ate something beforehand. That night was a lot more chill than Friday, but it was still really nice. They all convinced me that a trip to Viroqua, WI should be a part of my winter break. We'll see.
So anyways, the point was/is that I was feeling crappy until I went out of the norm for a weekend. And although this happens every once in a while, this time was different because I plan on hanging out with Emily and others more than once a month. It's for my health. : )