On my way into Costco for gas tonight, I was amused to note a brand-new Smarte car, one of those two-seat ultra micro cars that are just in distribution in the US, parked prominently near the entrance to this temple of American hugeness.
Surely the driver only swung by to pick up a single twenty-four pack of toilet paper, maybe with an impulse-buy forty-pound bag of coffee.
Having enabled streaming audio on my Treo, the primary current discontent is, naturally, format wars. Pocket Tunes is advertised as .wma compatible, yet accessing an ‘mms:’ URL produces no output, alas. Likewise and unsurprisingly, there’s no .ram support.
Of course, a key station in my transistor of the future (and past) relies solely on these two formats, and as the internet has ‘progressed’ in the past few years, the former practice of directing an audio stream to a free simultaneous transcoding service appear to be as dead as any realistic hopes for $1.29 gas or a speedy withdrawal from Iraq.
Those fuckers.
Twitterfacts, a Twitter stats and analysis blog.
Man. I really used to be a whole lot more social than I am now. Really.
The Stranger blogs the apparent end of Andy’s Diner, the collection of traincars on 4th Ave S. cobbled together into a bar-diner-locale-experience. Looks like the League might have missed a march. Bummer.
I rooted through old cassettes today in search of Steve Millen-assembled tapes, and found a bunch. I also found a tape that Steve Bouton made for me around the holidays in 1990 and have just had an entertaining 90 minutes with that. Here’s a link to one of the tunes on tape, Amor Fati’s amusing ‘Economics 101.’ The artist suggests a 25-cent Paypal donation, via this button.
Danelope points me at a big ol’ pile of Flash-based image presentation doohickeys.
