I’ve listened to ABC Classic FM almost exclusively for a year or two now, and it struck me the other day how much classical music the average young person is exposed to. Surprisingly much, but most of it is film scores. I challenge a week to go by without hearing some ‘classcal’ music.
If we count The Simpsons theme, I’d change that challenge to a day!
The school year is coming to a close. Activities week is in full swing, and with the appalling weather this morning, the planned game of Soccer was cancelled (can’t have the kids getting struck by lightning, after all). I had [spooks] in my bag, ready to return to the library, so I thought, the kids (all 5 of them, in the end) could watch my favourite show.
Step 1. Put DVD into drive.
Step 2. Connect Projector to PC.
Step 3. Wonder why Windows doesn’t automatically start Windows Media Player.
Step 4. Try second disc. Windows Media Player starts.
Step 5. Wonder why video is garbled, audio is absent and WMP crashes after 30 sec of playing.
Step 6. Try to install InterActual player.
Step 7. Wonder why InterActual player cannot find the audio device (everything else seems to be able to).
Step 8. Download newer version of Inter Actual player.
Step 9. Get a slightly better error message, but be unable to fix problem due to user restrictions (and I am a Power-User)
Step 10. Let the kids go on the ‘net instead.
Tue 7th Dec 2004
I didn’t originally plan to write a review for this book, but after devouring it in one sitting (I should have gone to sleep…) it did have some points I thought were worth discussing.
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From The Tao of Mac, my next 10 tracks randomly from iTunes.
- Open up the music player on your computer.
- Set it to play your entire music collection.
- Hit the “shuffle” command.
- Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or journal and then post a link in the comments.
- If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don?t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.
Two items in this week’s NewScientist: One that some people ”Do not respond to exercise”. I think this is quite a dangerous statement - it gives people an easy out. “I did exercise, but it didn’t help me”.
The other is also sobering - nearly half of all people who receive liposuction are fatter within a couple of months after the surgery than they were before. I’d like to see some follow-up data from Extreme Makeover!
I finished Halo 2 last night. The last level was pretty tough - well, the bit where you have to kill the brute with the big hammer, anyway.
But it was a bit of a letdown - I was expecting Master Chief (anyone else think that’s a stupid name?) to have to do some combat back on Earth at the end.
I also had to drop back to easy at some point, although I’ll now try to ramp up the difficulty and finish it on harder levels.
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