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Stavro Arrgolus's Blog
Topic: Editor's Blog- (9/3) Time Flies Like an Arrow. Fruit Flies Like a Banana
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fiogf49gjkf0d September 3 - 10:20 pm
Here's the new Luke Ski album just added- www.themadmusicarchive.com/album_details.aspx?AlbumID=7674
It's brand spankin' new, so if I missed anything there, post it here.
It brings up this business of song/album release dates which needs sorting out. It's possible to have an album with one release date and all its songs have different earlier dates since they were single mp3s before the album. Do we make the dates of the songs agree with the album release date or have all different dates and have people go WTF?
To add to all this crap, the album page isn't capable of having the full release date for an album, just the year. Since the full date thing seems to be causing trouble with the shows, maybe it should just be removed for now and these problems resolved on the new version of the site- along with the forum change a while ago that resulted in the post being responded to not appearing in the response anymore, so you have to add it yourself. That needs to go also. Lots for Wayne to look at when his move is complete. Hope it's soon. He's about to become an inactive member of his own site.
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August 29 - 4 am
All stocked up. Ready for the agricultural onslaught to begin. For the record, I actually choose to enjoy the fair...from a safe distance. If it drags in money for the town, then mundane services get paid for and our taxes don't go up again. A very good thing these days. After this fair foolishness is out of the way and I can drive to town again, I can resume my hunt for the elusive Nintendo Wii. Always out of stock, it seems. Should replace the TV first. It's about to die and I can't lift it- anymore. It weighs 10 tons. The new one won't. It'll be LCD. Gotta do some research on which one to get. Gonna be a long winter and some good entertainment is in order.
I have a brand new updated error list for Wayne. He hasn't been here in a couple weeks. I hope he's ready for a bit of fixing when he returns.
Time to bring the nomenclature into the new century as well. "Arrgolus" is the family name of the ancient progenitor vampire in my Sims 2 game. It's also a very obscure and indirect Doctor Who reference. "Stavro" is an old HHGttG reference going back to...I think it was 1992 when Douglas Adams wrote "Mostly Harmless", wasn't it? Technically, it goes back to the point where Arthur Dent meets Agrajag. Well, whatever. Tired of the numbers.
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August 27 - 2 pm
Labor Day weekend...Summer ends, hurricanes line up in droves to kill us, Jerry Lewis assaults our senses again...and the town agricultural fair arrives and the entire county descends on my neighborhood. I live ½ mile from the fairgrounds and it makes the roads to town impassable. The noise I can live with, but the inaccessibility to...everything, I can do without. Anything I want to get done in town or anywhere else needs to be done now before the roadblocks go up on Friday. Replacing the dying TV and other such things will have to wait.
Even though it's walking distance, I haven't been to it since 1978. I used to go to it every year- when admission was free. It's cows & chickens, not freaking Disneyland. Don't know why I lost interest in it. Must be the curmudgeonly thing. Or my back. The upshot of all this is I'll have lots of time to do more stuff here. I hope Wayne does, too. Gotta take a break from renovating sometime. Lots o' crap to fix. Those longer song pages are still in ruins. So are some of the blogs. I'd like to have the one I wrote that describes the 'editor' capabilities (and lack of them) back. I fixed what I could, but only managed to make a dent in it all. It's all going to have to all be reloaded or otherwise repaired. It'd be nice to have some new shows again also.
Is there a point to all this? Of course not, I just wanted to start a new one of these. They're going to have to be shorter from now on lest the Russians & Chinese return with their vile attack scripts and chop up the entries again.
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fiogf49gjkf0d I believe that ties in with something I commented on a few days ago in another thread..... which I'm naturally too lazy to go looking for.
I think we need to get albums to be listed as mm/dd/yyyy also. Previous released singles should hold onto their earlier date while newly included songs should get the album date added automagicly. When an album is listed in the New This Year, those songs on it that have been played should be listed below it.
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fiogf49gjkf0d "Dozens of hours of programming involved", he said. Hope he meant for all the access I need. Maybe there's a way around it for this sort of thing.
>>You and me also need access to fix playlist pages like we can fix album pages.
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fiogf49gjkf0d I think we need to get albums to be listed as mm/dd/yyyy also. Previous released singles should hold onto their earlier date while newly included songs should get the album date added automagicly. When an album is listed in the New This Year, those songs on it that have been played should be listed below it.
You and me also need access to fix playlist pages like we can fix album pages.
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fiogf49gjkf0d (Cut to a large matron with apron and carving knife)
Linkman's Voice: And what's that?
Mr A's Voice: That's the farmer's wife.
(Cut to the linkman at desk)
Linkman: Perhaps we need to know more of these mice men before we can really judge them. Perhaps not. Anyway, our thirty minutes are up.
(Sound of baa-ing. The linkman looks up in air, looks startled, pulls a gun from under the desk and fires in the air. A stuffed sheep falls to the floor)
Linkman: Goodnight.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Mr A: Well first of all you get shown to your own private hole in the skirting board... then you put the mouse skin on... then you scurry into the main room, and perhaps take a run in the wheel.
Linkman: The remainder of this film was taken secretly at one of these mouse parties by a BBC cameraman posing as a vole. As usual we apologize for the poor quality of the film.
(Very, poor quality film, shadowy shapes, the odd mouse glimpsed.)
Mr A's Voice: Well, er, then you steal some cheese, Brie or Camembert, or Cheddar or Gouda, if you're on the harder stuff. You might go and see one of the blue cheese films... there's a big clock in the middle of the room, and about 12.50 you climb up it and then ...eventually, it strikes one... and you all run down.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Linkman: Clearly, the British public's view is a hostile one.
Swishy Voiceover and caption: 'HOSTILE'
Linkman: But perhaps this is because so little is generally known of these mice men. We have some film now taken of one of the notorious weekend mouse parties, where these disgusting little perverts meet.
(Cut to exterior house (night). The blinds are drawn so that only shadows of enormous mice can be seen, holding slices of cheese and squeaking)
Linkman's Voice: Mr A tells us what actually goes on at these mouse parties.
(Cut to Mr A.)
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fiogf49gjkf0d Accountant: Oh well I'm a chartered accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest.
Vicar: I feel that these poor unfortunate people should be free to live the lives of their own choice.
Porter: I'd split their nostrils open with a boat hook, I think.
2nd Man: Well I mean, they can't help it, can they? But, er, there's nothing you can do about it. So er, I'd kill 'em.
(Cut to linkman.)
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fiogf49gjkf0d (Vox pops films:)
Window Cleaner: Clamp down on them.
Off-screen Voice: How?
Window Cleaner: I'd strangle them.
Stockbroker: Well, speaking as a member of the Stock Exchange I would suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows and orphans and go into South American Zinc.
Man: Yeh I'd, er, stuff sparrows down their throats, er, until the beaks stuck out through the, er, stomach walls.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Cut to Julius Caesar on beach. He shouts 'Veni Vidi, Vial'. Then he adds a furtive squeak. Napoleon pulls slice of cheese out of jacket and bites into it. Cut to Linkman)
Linkman: And, of course, Hillaire Belloc. But what is the attitude...
(Cut to man in a Viking helmet.)
Viking: ... of the man in the street towards...
Linkman: ... this growing social problem?
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fiogf49gjkf0d Linkman: Well, that's amazing, amazing. Thank you, Janet. (chord; Janet postures and exits) Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist as opposed to a conjuror...
Kargol: (disappointed) Oh...
Linkman: ... what makes certain men want to be mice?
Kargol: Well, we psychiatrists have found that over 8% of the population will always be mice. I mean, after all, there's something of the mouse in all of us. I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't felt sexually attracted to mice. (Linkman looks puzzled) I know I have. I mean, most normal adolescents go through a stage of squeaking two or three times a day. Some youngsters on the other hand, are attracted to it by its very illegality. It's like murder - make a thing illegal and it acquires a mystique. (Linkman looks increasingly embarrassed) Look at arson - I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have. (phone on desk rings; the Linkman picks it up but does not answer it) The only way to bring the crime figures down is to reduce the number of offenses. Get it out in the open. I know I have-
Linkman: (replacing phone) 'The Amazing Kargol' And Janet. What a lot of people don't realize is that a mouse, once accepted, can fulfill a very useful role in society. Indeed, there are examples throughout history of famous men now known to have been mice.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Linkman: What is it that attracts someone like Mr A to this way of life? I have with me a consultant psychiatrist.
(The camera pulls back to reveal the psychiatrist who places in front of himself a notice saying 'The Amazing Kargol And Janet '.)
Kargol: Well, we've just heard a typical case history. I myself have over seven hundred similar histories, all fully documented. Would you care to choose one?
(Janet, dressed in showgirl's outfit, enters and offers Linkman the case histories fanned out like cards, with one more prominent than the others; he picks it out.)
Kargol: (without looking) Mr Arthur Aidridge of Leamington.
Linkman: Well, that's amazing, amazing. Thank you, Janet. (chord; Janet postures and exits) Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist as opposed to a conjuror...
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fiogf49gjkf0d Confessor: Well, some of them started...dressing up as mice a bit...and then when they'd got the costumes on, they started...squeaking.
Interviewer: Yes. And was that all?
Confessor: (quickly) That was all.
Interviewer: And what was your reaction to this?
Confessor: Well, I was shocked. But, er...gradually I came to feel that I was more at ease ... with other mice.
(Cut to linkman)
Linkman: A typical case, whom we shall refer to as Mr A, although his real name is this:
(Voiceover and caption:) ARTHUR JACKSON 32A MILTON AVENUE, HOUNSLOW, MIDDLESEX
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fiogf49gjkf0d Hey, great, I forgot about this one!
(Interviewer, Harold Voice, sitting facing a confessor. The confessor is badly lit and is turned away from camera.)
Confessor: (very slowly and painfully) Well it's not a question of wantiing to be a mouse... it just sort of happens to you. All of a sudden you realize... that's what you want to be.
Interviewer: And when did you first notice these... shall we say... tendencies?
Confessor: Well... I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er... we had quite a lot to drink... and then some of the fellows there ... started handing ... cheese around ... and well just out of curiosity 1 tried a bit ... and well that was that.
Interviewer: And what else did these fellows do?
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fiogf49gjkf0d "Wow..you're inside my head, man!" I was in a store looking at a Sony Bravia thinking exactly those things this week. Can't get it now, of course. Gotta wait till the fair ends. No escape from here this weekend. Unless I want a pointless therapeutic shout at some fool at a roadblock.
>>As for that TV thing... I have had good results with the new "Bravia" series from Sony. It is their new less-expensive line they put out to compete with low-cost leaders LG and Samsung.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Hey Stavro,
As for that TV thing... I have had good results with the new "Bravia" series from Sony. It is their new less-expensive line they put out to compete with low-cost leaders LG and Samsung.
I have never been a fan of Sony, or their stupid proprietary formats over the years... (MD, Hi-MD, Betamax, MemoryStick, Elcaset, 8mm, Hi-8, Digital-8, rootkits on audio CDs... the list goes on) ...but these Bravia TV sets look very good, and have a lot of features for the low price. You can get a 32 inch for under $700.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Mostly Harmless was released in 1992. I don't know how long it took Douglas Adams to write it.
Terri M.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Of course, before I do any of that stuff above, I'll have to solve 'the mouse problem'. I had to clean their nests out of my relatively new lawn tractor last week. They chewed holes in a shirt I was washing also. Gnawing little bastards...
Yes. The Mouse Problem- This week 'The World Around Us' looks at the growing social phenomenon of Mice and Men. What makes a man want to be a mouse...
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fiogf49gjkf0d I'm not that far gone yet. The evil & greedy ghods of pharmacology assist with the back thing and I try to get some walking in when possible. No, I just lost interest. Must have had to do with the crowds- much bigger than in times past and the aforementioned excessive admissions.
The draw these days is the demolition derby. A few days ago, I read how these derbies are being canceled everywhere due to the increased value of the sale of scrap & parts over trashing them for entertainment. In the paper, I read about how our fair's derby has been cut back to 1 day instead of 2. The greed induced Bush recession hits home. I'm still not going. After all, a cow's a cow. How many more do you need to look at? There's a dairy farm on the route I walk when I feel up to exercise. The cows & their sea of grass are there to be seen whenever. Oh, wait. That was my reasoning in 1979, wasn't it?
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fiogf49gjkf0d If you do want to go to the fair, check with them (webpage/phone) to see if they have health issue/access help. Who knows they might have courtesy scooters for those who can't take all the walking.
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