On This Day: August 8

Below are the log entries and other content posted on August 8.

Pete's Log: Log Entry 78

Entry #78, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)
(posted when I was 21 years old.)
New project: "Pimps" -- a bitching new file system for linux ... pimps stands for pimps is a modular phile system. probably won't be the official name, tho...
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Pete's Log: Log Entry 393

Entry #393, (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)
well, after a long, heated battle, esgeroth can now talk to x10 devices in the apartment, including a pair of blue lights which are to be used to indicate a modem connection. for some reason, the old 3com 509 had decided to hang out on irq 3, which conflicted with the serial port we needed for the x10 stuff. of course, we couldn't use the other serial port, since the modem was there. and i know that i used to use that serial port, since i used to have a serial mouse hanging off there... mysteries... anyway, we once again took the 3com out, until such time as we get broadband and need the card again, at which point we shall reinsert it into esgeroth, download the 3com thingy to change the irq the card uses, and hopefully find ourselves happy...

got cable today. unfortunately, i don't think the south bend cable lineup has food network. doh! made more progress in my room of rooms... i think everything that needs to go on the wall is on the wall, and there's room left, which can be reserved for the posters i have in a tube back home that my parents will be shipping me soonish, i hope...
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Pete's Log: iTunes Top 25 (2007)

Entry #1501, (Music)
(posted when I was 29 years old.)

I did it in 2002 and again in 2006. Perhaps it'll become an annual tradition. Here are my top 25 most played songs in iTunes:

  1. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son (57)
  2. Seeed - Aufstehn! (Featuring Cee-Lo Green) (49)
  3. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (46)
  4. Reggaetones - Lo Que Paso Paso (42)
  5. Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels (42)
  6. Operation Ivy - Sound System (41)
  7. RENT Soundtrack - Finale B (37)
  8. The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (36)
  9. Sponge - Molly (Sixteen Candles) (36)
  10. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (36)
  11. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn (35)
  12. Alizee - J'en ai marre (34)
  13. Weezer - Island In The Sun (34)
  14. Steve Miller Band - The Joker (33)
  15. Sugar Ray - Abracadabra (33)
  16. MEST - Fucked Up Kid (32)
  17. Blink-182 - The Rock Show (31)
  18. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary (31)
  19. Green Day - American Idiot (31)
  20. Incubus - Drive (30)
  21. Orgy - Blue Monday (30)
  22. A Tribe Called Quest - Steve Biko (Stir It Up) (29)
  23. Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now (29)
  24. Arthur Kay's Originals - Play My Record (28)
  25. Drop Kick Murphys - Caught In A Jar (28)

It's apparent that this past year I've been a bit addicted to pop music.

These counts are cumulative, so the play count is the number of times I've listened to the song since 2002. Sadly, I don't think there's a way to get a delta over the past year. I just exported my song list, though, so I will be able to get deltas next year.

What most amazes me is that the most-played song has only been played 57 times. But I do now have 3080 songs, or 7 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes and 32 seconds worth of music. So I guess it's hard to listen to any one song that often. And also, prior to moving to Munich, I did much of my music listening in my car, off CDs, which did not add to the playcount. Now I pretty much only listen to my music through iTunes or my iPod...

In the past year, I've bought 134 songs through iTunes, and acquired another couple dozen through other means. Here's a few of my favorites of what I got in the past year, in case you're looking for something "new":

  • Die Höhner - Viva Colonia
  • Sportfreunde Stiller - '54, '74, '90, 2010
  • Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble
  • The Breeders - Saints
  • Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Me and Mia
  • The Rakes - Strasbourg
  • Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
  • Juanes - La Camisa Negra
  • The Killers - Somebody Told Me
  • Massive Attack - Angel
  • Texas Lightning - No No Never
  • Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing
  • Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
  • Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
  • Wir Sind Helden - Nur Ein Wort
  • Aswefall - Between Us

P.S. iTunes crashes consistently when I try to create a smart playlist with a "Date Added" "is after" criteria. I ought to upgrade my iTunes. But first I need to upgrade my OS X...

Peter Rijks updated his status.

(when I was 30 years old)
Pete is a relentless tide of verbiage

Pete's Log: hedgekore!

Entry #1588, (Random Crap)
(posted when I was 30 years old.)
Pete and Tim in a bush/hedge they just jumped into

Tim doesn't look terribly pleased.

I don't think I'm ever growing up.

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Peter Rijks updated his status.

(when I was 32 years old)
Pete is in Düsseldorf for the week.

Peter Rijks updated his status.

(when I was 34 years old)

Photography was invented a mere 190 years ago. We've only had powered flight for 109 years. And now we have a robot in orbit around a planet 250 million km away, taking pictures of an other robot landing on the surface and sending those pictures back to us.

The more I think about it, the more it just blows my mind. And yet, I also can't help but think "where's the HD video?"

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120808.html

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