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  • I’m an Existential Hedonist

    Decided to take one of those silly quiz things:

    You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.

    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

    “It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”

    –Jean-Paul Sartre

    “It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”

    –Blaise Pascal

    More info at Arocoun’s Wikipedia User Page…

    Existentialism
    		85%

    Hedonism
    		85%

    Utilitarianism
    		80%

    Justice (Fairness)
    		75%

    Apathy
    		50%

    Kantianism
    		35%

    Strong Egoism
    		30%

    Nihilism
    		30%

    Divine Command
    		20%

    What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03)
    created with QuizFarm.com

  • iPod/iTunes Survey

    Taken from LJ:

    How many total songs?
    7580

    Sort by Song Title
    First: ‘Till the End of Time, Delerium
    Last: track 8 (it’s in japanese: 黒い翼) off of Los Angeles by the brilliant green

    Sort by time:
    First: Let’s Hear It For Nine Inch Nails, Nine Inch nails
    Last: Essential Mix – 04.01.2001, Carl Cox Live @ Space

    Sort by Album:
    First track: (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing, Heaven 17, (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing (cd single)
    Last track: LITTLE BUSTERS, The Pillows・他, フリクリ オリジナルサウンドトラック

    Top Ten Most Played:
    I Love Love You, Hideki Naganuma/Guitar Vader
    READY STEADY GO, L’Arc~en~Ciel
    HEY! JIMMY, HAV
    Super Shooter, RIP SLYME
    Cutie Honey, Koda Kumi
    The Concept of Love, Hideki Nagnuma
    A Place in the Country, Adam Ant
    Puss n’ Boots, Adam Ant
    Future Is What We Are, Ken Ishii
    Run Rabbit Junk, Yoko Kanno

    10 most recently played: (Same comment as last one):
    Place in the Country, Adam Ant
    Take Me To The River, Talking Heads
    You Won’t See Me Coming, Jean-Jacques Burnel
    Screw, The Cure
    It Only Makes Me Laugh, Oingo Boingo
    No One Lives Forever, Oingo Boingo
    Greetings to the New Brunette, Billy Bragg
    Like a Prayer, Bigod 20
    Run Rabbit Junk, Yoko Kanno
    HIT IN THE USA, BEAT CRUSADERS

    Find “sex”, how many songs show up?
    18

    Find “death”, how many songs show up?
    13

    Find “love”, how many songs show up?
    442

  • Muse Found, Though A Bit Rusty

    So this morning I decided to record myself spinning and do up a little mix. This was pretty much my first time touching my turntables in at least a year (with the exception of around 15 minutes over the weekend). Overall it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I’m definitely not as tight as I was before, but that’s just practice. And I still love that feeling of just blocking out everything else and spinning for a while. I just have to make sure and close the door to my room so that I’m not seen bopping about and looking silly.

    Anyways, here it is: I Know You Want It (it’s in AAC, cope) (Oh, and you might have to right click and do save as).

  • Finding My Muse

    So I finally got my turntables set up again. It’s been over a year since I spun. And pretty much all of my records are stashed away still. So I’ve decided to celebrate with a mix. This morning I went down and just randomly grabbed records from the ones that were easily accessible and I’ll see what I can do with them.

    The interesting thing is that a lot of what I spin has changed since I first started. There’s a lot of old progressive trance in there that I probably wouldn’t touch these days. Some of it is pretty good, but I’m sure there are more than a few things I picked up over the years that are trash. So it is definitely a tossup as to the quality of the tracks I’m working with. I guess this is a good time to go through and weed out any of the records I’ll definitely never spin.

    Hopefully I’ll have a new mix up within a few days.

  • Transparent Screens

    I haven’t posted a Boing Boing link in a while, but this one was just too cool. I’d try it, but I don’t have that much interesting behind my computer.

    Transparent screen illusion: set laptop’s wallpaper to a photo of the wall behind it

    Images Trasnparentscreen

    Transparent Screens is a Flickr photoset of laptops whose deptop wallpaper has been set to a digital photo of the walls and windows behind them, so that they appear to have totally transparent displays. The effect is striking. Link (via Boing Boing) (via Waxy)

  • Music of the Moment

    Lately I seem to have this bad habit of buying CDs and then letting them sit around for a few months before I open them up to listen to them. The latest was Derrick Carter & Mark Farina Live at Om. I really have no idea why I waited so long and now I’m kicking myself. I’ve been bopping around to it all morning. I think I like the Mark Farina mix a bit more out of the two, but they’re both great. Now I just need to put it on my ipod.

  • QOTD 03/22/2005

    Douglas Adams
    “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • More on Feedster (and why I love the web)

    The other day I posted about issues with spam in the search results I was getting at Feedster. Within hours there was not only a post on Scott Johnson’s blog, but I got a nice message from him about how to remove blogspot results from my NetNewsWire searches there. I love to see companies being this on the ball. Especially a place like Feedster. I wasn’t really looking for a solution right that second. I more was commenting how spammers seem to be doing their best to devalue a lot of the usefulness of the web.

    So here’s a quick thanks for the help!

  • QOTD 03/19/2005

    Harry Shearer
    “If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • Blogger + Feedster + Spammers = Useless

    I use NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds. One of the great features up till recently has been the ability to have it search places like Feedster and have the results show up as a feed. In the recent past my regular search for anything to do with Pulmonary Fibrosis has achieved nothing more than hugely long posts of spam (click and see). Since the 15th there have been around 27 hits on that search, only ONE of them being an actual post by someone. And all the offending posts have been at blogger.

    I think Blogger needs to do something about this. Have a better way of detecting automated blog signups or something. Currently it has drastically reduced the usefulness of things like Feedster for me. At least Feedster does have the ability to filter out responses from some urls. I just need to see if I can get NNW to support doing that.