All my peoples in Cary, you don't stop
Now all my peoples in Apex, you don't stop
And all my peoples downtown ya don't stop
That includes Five Points an' Hillsborough ya don't stop
- A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz
- Jurassic 5 - Acetate Prophets
- My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
- Son Volt - Streets That Time Walks
- Talking Heads - Houses In Motion
- Devendra Banhart - Sawkill River
- Bettie Serveert - All The Other Fish
- Robyn Hitchcock - The Abandoned Brain
- John Scofield - Trio Blues
- Broken Social Scene - Hotel
Everybody in the place ya don't stop
Ya keep it on, to the rhythm, ya don't stop
And last but not least on the sure shot
It's the R.T.P.
My company has just announced it is laying off 5% of the workforce. Happy New Year!
that sucks. are you one of the 5% ?
frankly, i’m waiting for the same announcement here. starting next week, we get to have a final round of on-site discussions with companies who are trying to get contracts to off-shore our products. my managers get to show them just what it’ll take to replace all of our jobs.
I don’t think I’m one of the 5% – there is a 30 day consultation period first (though what that means in practice is anyone’s guess) but no-one seems to know if the 5% will be told before this period is up.
2009 is going to be brutal. We’ll be talking about just how bad for the next 20 years.
I hope you keep your job Cleek, although working there may of been soured if they are trying to out source you. Sadly, there will be plenty of programmers on the market this year, hell, rumours are abound that MS will be making a lot of people redundant this month.
yeah, i’m not expecting much from 09, either.
there will be plenty of programmers on the market this year
yeah. which adds yet another data point to my ongoing internal argument that i need a new career.
I was browsing the new Amazon UK MP3 store yesterday and picked up a 38 track definitive Stevie Wonder collection for just £3!
How will high-street music stores survive?
OK, the start of a truly shitty time at work brings us these nuggets of aural joy:
1. The Von Bondies, Lack Of Communication.
2. Pink Floyd, Nobody Home.
3. New Order, The Perfect Kiss.
4. Radiohead, Nude.
5. The Beatles, Blue Jay Way.
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Y Control.
7. Muse, Micro Cuts.
8. Manic Street Preachers, The Convalescent.
9. David Bowie, Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide.
10. The White Stripes, 7 Nation Army.
Damn your good lil’ iPod. Buying a car kit was money well spent.
i think i went to one music store last year. and only then because we were on vacation, and the store was a sentimental favorite from long ago… and i wanted a t-shirt.
it was funny to read in that Uncut mag that AC/DC’s newest one is supposedly the most-illegally-downloaded in history. that was completely predictable, given that they limited sales in the US to one chain of stores and wouldn’t let Amazon or iTunes carry it for downloads. sorry Angus, but when there’s only one option, and that involves getting off the couch and driving to a big ugly mega-mart, people are going to take the easy way.
digging the pod once again:
1. John Scofield “Golden Daze”
2. Leonard Cohen “Dance Me To The End Of Love”
3. Tito Puente “Night Ritual”
4. Asleep At The Wheel “I Ain’t Got Nobody”
5. Leonard Cohen “Take This Waltz”
6. John Holt “Stick By Me”
7. Aphex Twin “Shiny Metal Rods”
8. Sarah Vaughan “My Old Flame”
9. Vera Bila “Cirikloro Mirikloro”
10. Cristina Branco “Nao Oicas A Minha Voz”
Extra texture:
Tom Waits “Filipino Box Spring Hog”
Someday I’d like an explanation of the ipod shuffle algorithm. I got a couple thousand tunes on there, and this week it’s all John Scofield and Leonard Cohen.
I like ’em both, I’m just trying to figure out what “shuffle” means.
Good luck to everyone this year, hope we all keep our damned jobs and homes. For crying out loud.
Peace –
I got a couple thousand tunes on there, and this week it’s all John Scofield and Leonard Cohen.
a.k.a. the magic of the “nonpareil effect”.
AFAIK, it’s just selection without replacement. given enough samples, you have a unintuitively-large chance of getting clusters.
a.k.a. the magic of the “nonpareil effect”.
Q’est-ce que c’est?
Thanks –
that’s where you have a jar full of multi-colored nonpareil candies. and you assume that the reds and the greens should be distributed equally through out the jar, because they were placed there randomly (poured from a bag), and there’s no reason why they would attract each other. and yet, you always find reds and greens clumped together.
i suppose it would work with M&Ms, too.