The Grouch is playing September 20th @ the loft
At first glance I was pissed I missed it and had to be reminded that the flier says 9/20 not 8/20.
I have yet to visit the Loft, doubt it is still BYOB!?
More photos of The Grouch and Zion I at Next Door after the break.
So I fortunately have been surfing Techcrunch at the right time…
A few hours ago they gave our 200 invites to http://www.getdropbox.com/ take a look at their screencast, very slick!
It does syncing files between multiple computers. Does versioning.
It will be a paid service, I am currently trying out SugarSync… that is how I ran into DropBox tonight.
I have a hand and footfull of invites… I’d say about 20.
Give me a comment or find me some live atmosphere tunes or even the new Lemons album!
ShennyG
http://hulu.com
I’ve decided to not upload the MP3’s. If you want to download the live set take a look at etree.org. You will need to know how to download torrents and then also play/burn/convert a FLAC file.
So my favorite underground hip hop group, atmosphere, is putting out an new album coming soon….
I found some great live sets from this past years Vegoose music fest. First came Daft Punk… pretty amazing live shit… then comes Atmosphere’s set… not gonna put up all the tracks… unless you beg.
But I did put 2 and 2 and 12 together, I found a few tracks that are new!
First is
Can’t Break
Next
In Her Music Box
It’s Fall of 2005 and this motivational speaker from that big software company M$ shows up at my school for to give away some goodies and give advice.
He is an old guy… not too old but has a wife and kids and travels for a living telling every super nerd in college to get a life and have a plan for the next 50 years of your life.
The main thing I got from his speach is that I need to have a career plan to advance myself. I need to have a goal and a timeline, I need to set up qualifications and stepping blocks so I can get to that goal. I wrote it on this little scrap of papper that I have filed away somewhere.
As of today it is still on my rtm to do list, above “ensure technology is always an aid, not an obstacle” and below Take work sponsored college advancment.
Still to this day I have nothing… I have a job, I know what I like(at the moment), I know what I am good at and I am fairly satisfied at where I am at for being a little over one year into my professional career.
The first rule of career planning: Do not plan your career.
I like the whole Fight Club unimportance feel.
The second rule of career planning: Instead of planning your career, focus on developing skills and pursuing opportunities.
After that he kinda forgets about rules and just gives examples of measuring risk versus reward and that if you never risk you still may have a great career but will miss out on that one insane opportunity that you will love.
The issue is that without taking risk, you can’t exploit any opportunities.
He talks about being young and being old and having different responsibilities and thier risk profile(the things that could go wrong) associated with it.
My return/risk profile for future jobs are a little too secret for this blog and I have some opportunities that have presented itself and now I need to decide if I want to take the jump…
Read the original article for more on Career Planing.
Amazon opens their MP3 store today, yes a MP3 store. I didn’t say MP3 service because they don’t have a service for you, they just sell you the MP3 eg. let you download it, thats it game over nothing more nothing less. They don’t have a music player to go with it, they don’t have a specific MP3 player you have to buy to play it on the go. They guarantee it to work with anything that plays Mp3’s… why because there is no DRM, Finally!
Lets get the record straight and state that I do use iTunes… I have a iPhone, I have to. I do not have a iTunes store account, I was tempted to sign up for one to get the album covers downloaded for me but then it wanted my CC#. No thank you.
So, will this convert me to a music buying guy?! I looked for some of my favorite artists on Amazon MP3 and found one cd by Atmosphere… It was god loves ugly, a classic but I got it already.
Will the iTunes WiFi Store convert me?! Time will tell, I highly doubt it. I am not that much of a compulsive buyer. I may change with music but who know how long my friends may take to get past the new firmware. I may never upgrade past iPhone 1.0.2.
On the amazonmp3 top chart look what we have at number 2, excuse me it is now #1:
1234 by Feist
One two three four tell me why you love me more….
That just so happens to be the AdTune for Apples new iPod Nano Video, I don’t know the price in iTunes… most likely 99 cents, but on Amazon the free download is 10 cents cheaper and is VBR 256 kilobits per second DRM FREE! Take that apple, I know they sell $1.29 DRM free track but that is only with one record label to my knowledge.
To sum it up I think we are moving along quite well, the internet is great. It allows competition and also things to get done very quickly. If I ever have a hard time finding some free tracks for music I just have to have I think amazonmp3 is the go to guy here, when the time comes I will let you know!
Thank you Amazon for taking a step in the right direction, thank you record labels for allowing DRM Free MP3 downloads!
As you start to become more and more of a jet setter/globe trotter you can keep track of when you will be intersecting with all your global friends.
I suppose some of us are cave dwellers, some of us live in houses, some of us like to be loose footed; I’m a rambling man!
Ramblin Man by Lemon Jelly, they have the new hit on the friskies cat food commercial.
Contact me and I will get you an invite so we can keep our traveling plans in sync!
I am currently in the mix of writing on my experiences on the superferry for it’s second trip to Kauai leaving Monday afternoon. If you want to get a peek at what I have so far click read more. Photos are on it’s way also, I am just still rocking back and forth and have to head to work.
Update - I got my check for the fourty some dollars in reciepts I sent in from breakfast and dinner the next day. They stay true to one promise. We will see if I get my five round trips!
$30 kauai meg me my gti round trip!
Skipping work for a few days to make a quick trip to Kauai, thanks to the $5 fares from the superferry. The same trip a week later would have been $460…
IS NOW MINE!
What do ya think!
