This past weekend I wanted to move a lot, if not all, of the music I have on my laptop to an external drive i have to free up space, but before doing so I wanted to make a big image that would be a concatenation of all the album covers I currently have in itunes. I made a pair of scripts to do the job for me and put them up on my git hub account here https://github.com/diegoolano/itunes_montage_maker if you would like to do something similar. here is a scaled down version of the output i got.
I was making a mix CD for a friend yesterday and after arranging a playlist in iTunes that contained the mix, I realized that I had no good way to actually share it with my friend. I had a few options at my disposal:
I could burn it to a CD, but I would first have to go to the store to buy one, and then I’m sure he would just rip the CD to his computer and throw it away.
I could try and find the location of all of those songs on my computer and copy them into a single folder and then compress that entire folder to a file and email it or put it up somewhere online for him depending on the size of the archive. This is definitely possible, but if this turns out to be something I’d like to do more often, it will be pretty annoying to have to manually find and copy over all the songs I want since iTunes currently doesn’t provide any good way to do that.
I could write a program to do it !
As the exclamation point might have you believe, I chose option 3. I have posted the project to my git hub account if you’d like to use it yourself. Unfortunately it will only work on Macs as of now as the project is based on a python wrapper to Applescript, an internal communication layer on Macs which allows individual applications to talk with one another. This is definitely a works in process and will require a user to have some idea of how to use the command line “Terminal” utility on a mac. There is a README file included in the project, but please feel free to contact me if you need help understanding it. Seriously Libby. I’m looking at you.
my favorite dirty projectors song, from an early album Slaves, Graves, and Ballads:
A labour more restful
You are finally convinced that you inhabit the same banal world as everyone.
everyone has found it too. everyone has resigned themselves to it.
And the only mystery is in what you couldn’t decide or remember clearly.
Have you stopped looking in order to put yourself to some real purpose
Or have you simply found a labor more restful
than big hearted yearning and knowing that you’re incomplete?
in late 2005, the interest kills ( at that point a three piece of the brothers garcia-olano i think ) had a show lined up in houston and we wanted to have zach duran of the eastern sea ( the band my little brother is in now ) fill in on drums for whatever reason. my little brother tomas and i went into my house in east austin and recorded these demo songs for him in one evening, and we never ended up recording any of them “professionally” so this is all that really remains of that time at all, which is kind of crazy now that i think about it. anyways, you can listen to the songs here:
so my friend Amy Sly has this tumblr blog foryounotthem.tumblr.com where she posts a new photo each day from her phone that has a cool filter on it. anyways, i thought it’d be cool to do the same, but instead of having to go through the trouble of logging into a tumblr blog and then upload the photo and fill out what i want, i’d figure it would be cool to just send an email to a gmail account that would then be read by a script i put on a server which was set off by a cron job every few minutes that would take a given email and attachment and post it to a blog of my choosing for me. the blog in i’m going to start trying to do this on is rundiosmio.tumblr.com. there are already a lot of pictures up ( namely because i also used this site to help Amy make an admin tool for a great website she is one of the heads of named Cover Spy which itself has many spin offs from places as far as Buenos Aires and London ) I hope you enjoy the rundiosmio page. the story behind the name is a long one.
I’ve been looking into HTML 5 stuff as of late and came across this open source helicopter game
that happens to be written leveraging HTML5 so i decided to make a two player version of the game ( ala same keyboard ).
its not that pretty and really i only spent a minimal amount of time on it so please don’t expect too much
that said, i’m hoping to next make the game two player over a socket connection so multiple people can play it
from different computers. have fun.. http://www.diegoolano.com/html5/helicopter/
