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Genius Fun

Merlijn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:20:57 +0000

I love the new “genius” feature of iTunes 8. On my to do list is an genius playlist xml->rss export thingie for gargleblaster. But hey… there are more things on my todo-list :)
But this morning I hit the genius button for “The Mercy Seat” of Nick Cave&the Bad Seeds. And considering my iTunes playlist has around 12.5k songs in it…sometimes the music I hear is very surprising.

Like this morning: X Offender by Blondie!
Hell. I didn’t even know I had that album…but I absolutely loved the song.
But now I am wondering what the connection is with The mercy seat :p

Below is the complete playlist…groovy baby :)

Name	Artist	Album

X Offender	Blondie	The Essential Collection
Complete Control	The Clash	The Rolling Stone Magazines 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time
Black celebration	Depeche Mode	One night in Paris 2001
Raw Power	Iggy and the Stooges	A Million In Prizes - The Iggy Pop Anthology
She’s Lost Control	Joy Division	Substance
Atmosphere	Joy Division	Substance
Sad Song	Lou Reed	Berlin
Stigmata	Ministry	Greatest Fits
Personality Crisis	New York Dolls	The Rolling Stone Magazines 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time
Deanna	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Best Of
The Mercy Seat	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Best Of
The Weeping Song	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Best Of
From Her To Eternity	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Best Of
Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	No More Shall We Part
About A Girl (Solo Acoustic, 1)	Nirvana	With The Lights Out
Dig For Fire	Pixies	Bossanova
Debaser	Pixies	Death To The Pixies 1987-1991
Caribou	Pixies	Pixies At The BBC
Sugar Kane	Sonic Youth	Dirty
She Bangs The Drums	The Stone Roses	The Very Best Of The Stone Roses
Cold Cold Ground [Live]	Tom Waits	Big Time
white light / white heat	The velvet underground	Gold
what goes on	The velvet underground	Gold
Country Death Song	Violent Femmes	Hallowed Ground
The Killing Moon	Echo & the Bunnymen	Donnie Darko (Soundtrack & Score)

Sometimes Rebooting hurts

Merlijn — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:18:10 +0000

snif… I have to reboot this box because there will be maintenance in the serverroom’s powersupply.
There goes a beautiful uptime :(

iPhone Screenies

Merlijn — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:29:52 +0000

I have my iPhone now for 3 weeks…and I am more and more falling in love with it. I hardly use my iMac anymore at home. All my email checking, browsing and even some commandline work I do with my iPhone. And with iSquint I convert avi’s etc to the iPod compatible mp4 and have great fun watching the wire season 1 now on my iPhone.
But…1 thing I didn’t know was that it’s possible to make screenies of your iphone :)
how?

press the home button and sleep button simultaneously for 1 second and release.

You see the screen flashing, and the screenie has been added to your album roll in the photo.app. And the best thing…it doesn’t have your greasy fingers all over. yay me!

Start2Run

Merlijn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:43:58 +0000

Running with Evy Gruyaert is still fun. Almost finished with the 0-5km podcast series. Below is lesson 26 which I ran yesterday. Tomorrow the final lesson and next week I will have to run 3 times 30 minutes to complete the series. After that I will continue with the 5-10km lessons.

Hailstorm in Germany

Merlijn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:33:53 +0000

On my returntrip from Germany, I rode right into this hailstorm.
Pretty impressive, even while it lasted for only 3 minutes or so.

This so made my day

Merlijn — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:56:32 +0000

Sigh…

This music video so made my day today. It’s a cover of Joy Divison’s Ceremony by Radiohead.

Like they say at the end of video: “and now what?!”.

Work I guess :)

ROFL

Merlijn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:28:43 +0000

Angels in America

Merlijn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:10:34 +0000

Today I went with a friend to the play “Angels in America”.
Toneelgroep Amsterdam was the company playing the piece. 5,5 hours with only 1 break of 25 minutes. Wow!

The play is about the gayscene in the mid eighties in New York where AIDS was at his full force. Alongside the AIDS storyline, there are the political issues and the religious groups (jews, mormons, catholics) which keep the story-lines going.
Practically all the music played was from David Bowie.
It was awesome. Really really great. The story was great, the acting was excellent.
Searching the torrent sites now for the miniseries.

Eek… Deleting my non-existing social life?!

Merlijn — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:53:33 +0000

I decided to delete some social-networking accounts. Among those is my hyves account. Hyves is very similar to facebook, with a large NL user base.

When you finally find out how to delete your hyves account, they sent a email saying (todo is translate to English):

Er moet een vergissing in het spel zijn, want als we niet beter wisten zouden we denken dat je je account permanent wilt verwijderen. Hiermee verwijder je ook al je foto’s, video’s, vrienden en deel je je sociale leven een klap toe die niet zelden fataal blijkt… Vaak hebben mensen ook even nodig om hun draai te vinden op Hyves. Maar goed. Haal diep adem, tel tot 10 en klik op de link om je verwijdering definitief te maken. Gebruik je Hotmail of werkt de link niet? Copy-paste dan de link tekst naar je browser.

roughly translated:

There must be something wrong, because if we didn’t know better, we would think you want to delete your account permanently. With doing this, you would delete all your photo’s, video’s, friends and give your social life a blow of which it rarely recovers. Very often people need some time to get used to Hyves. but anyway. Take a deep breath, count to ten and click the provided link to delete your account. Are you using hotmail or does the provided link doesn’t work? Then copy’n'paste the link to your browser.

Eeek. The sad thing…They convinced me…sort of…

Sweden

Merlijn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:53:32 +0000

Last week I found myself throwing myself from a mountain side in Sweden on skies.
It was my first real winter-sport holiday and it was in one word: Awesome.

I love Sweden. Great countryside, great people. It’s empty (1 person / square kilometer in the region north of our place!) and they like eat a lot :)

2 Downsides…WTF with a maximum speed of 90 kmh at 90% of the roads! and WTF with selling 3.5% beer and making the real beer bloody expensive.
Luckily the blonde-blue-eyed girls do make up for that.