things i hate, and some things i don’t

Am decidedly a fan of anything that maximizes screen space while minimizing mouse usage. Am NOT a fan of hiding my dock, because I tend to use everything, I mean EVERYTHING on my dock all at once and I like having access readily and easily available. Solution to problem? Quicksilver. With a couple of keystrokes, I can find, click, and use any program I want on my OS. Sweetness. Super sweetness.

http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac <--download link, for your benefit.

something I don't hate: Quicksilver

Short post:

suffice it to say I know next to nothing about UNIX except how to cd directory or cp file in Terminal. attempting to do a makefile for C++ projects that creates a zip archive of all .cpp files in the directory. found the UNIX command:

zip [-AcdDeEfFghjklLmoqrRSTuvVwXyz@$] [-b path]
[-n suffixes] [-t mmddyyyy] [-tt mmddyyyy] [ zipfile [ file1
file2 ...]] [-xi list]

but no explanations of what to change/what goes where.
managed to get some distorted version of it working in Terminal"zip file directory file" was what I was typing in, essentially, but it was creating an empty archive.

no idea how to get this up and running in my makefile.

anyway, it's frustrating. I recognize the benefits of makefiles, but holy crap.
everyone keeps telling me to google tutorials which I AM DOING (e.g. "man zip")
but I admit it. I am slow. My mind plods. Ungracefully. I need my hand held through shit, e.g. explanations of what "-b" stands for, or why
there's an effing "-n" when that doesn't exist in UNIX (according to Terminal, anyway).


something I (for the time being, until I understand UNIX/get this shite working) hate: makefiles

It's a little weird, but kind of really cool.

The song is pretty good too. Low key, but unassuming. Apparently the artist, Oren Lavie, co-directed. Shot in all stills. Really cool the way they have the light from the window shifting at the beginning and end, but at the same spot throughout the "dream". Those kinds of shots can't happen by accident. Was also a huge fan of the sock-fishes.

something (someone?) I don't hate: Oren Lavie

more about the video:

* The video was shot all stills - roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
* It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
* It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
*Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

-Lavie's blog

I have been inspired.

firstly by a resume-tips email feed I'm subscribed to but never read except for this morning,

and secondly by this: http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com

explanation of the first: Resume reader guy said he googles applicants to read their weblogs. Now I'm not google-find-able, but this made me think to myself, "If I *WAS* to be found on google, wouldn't I want to appear interesting?" Thus violent blog-restructure (via making new blog!) for optimal interesting-factor. (I'm not too interesting otherwise, so I'm sorry, this is the best I can do for now).

explanation of the second: It's funny. Also, themed.

So I decided to give myself a theme, though it isn't really since all I do is complain about the plethora of things I hate anyway. But now it *seems* like a theme, which is what counts.

So, without further ado, my first entry.

*****

Pandora wigged me out at first. I'd heard of it here and there brushed it off as a thing that the unpretentious people of the world subscribe to. Being massively pretentious myself, decided to reconcile it to the mental file of "whatevarrr" in the complicated filing system in my head. My first tangible contact with it was at a small hangout/party at the end of finals week last quarter, where the station was Third Eye Blind or some too-soon 90's throwback or other. Bad stuff. Not good. So I filed it further back, in "gross". I like to listen to my own music. And besides, until recently, I wasn't really into playlists, I would just listen to albums all the way through if I was in the mood for something.

BUT, since there's always a BUT in stories like this, at job #1 yesterday, amidst piles and piles of data entry, one of the other RA's put The Killers Pandora on... and despite my iffy-ness with the Killers (I take issue for completely irrelevant moral reasons, so ignore my tendency to dislike perfectly innocuous music), there were a surprising amount of decent songs. So I have decided to try it myself. Anyone who has been paying attention to me at length (only person in question: my roommate) will know I've been going through a huge experimental/instrumental phase. So I'm finding all these great new obscure artists which makes me feel even MORE pretentious and cool which makes me a happy little clam. Because sometimes I am a clam. So yes. I am definitely a fan.

something I don't hate: Pandora

OKAY IT JUST PLAYED PORCUPINE TREE AND PINK FLOYD ON THE SAME STATION. OFFICIALLY AMAZING.