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QotD: Strange Little Songs

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:59:55 +0200

What are the weirdest song titles in your playlist or music collection?
Submitted by Charline.

Here's a little dadaist poem made completely out of song titles from my iTunes library:

Na Na Na
Fa-Fa-Fa
Ba Ba Baba Ba Ba Well Anyway
Oh!
Alala
La La Love You
Run Run Run
Choo Choo
Likkle Supm Supm
Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh
Yee Haw
Can I Get Get Get
Oi Oi!
Na Na Na Na Naa

(The songs are by The Knife, Datarock, Oh No Ono, Ty, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Pixies, Phoenix, Arctic Monkeys, Promoe, The Rapture, MF Doom, Junior Senior, Geeza, and Kaizer Chiefs.)

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Vox Hunt: It Better Be Good

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:27:11 +0100

What's the first image that comes up when you Google your name?

Picture 2

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Meme tag: 5 facts

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:01:38 +0100

So gaspode tagged me with this thing:

"Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 5 facts about yourself. Then choose 5 people you want to tag and list their names. Then leave a comment on their blog letting them know they’ve been tagged."

I don't like raisins. (See? This is the kind of thing blogging is for!)
I have lived 18 different places (some of them more than once).
I don't have a driver's licence but I think I could drive a car if I had to. The speeder is on the right and the brake is on the left, right? (My girlfriend/chauffeur doesn't think I could.)
I used to play badminton as a child.
I'm almost never late for anything. I hate being late.

I'm tagging these people:

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A nightmare about iPhoto

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:18:31 +0100

It's the middle of the night. The only light in the room I'm sitting in is coming from the screen and some LEDs scattered around the room (on the network switch, on the screen, on the Mac, on the TV). I just got up from bed because I woke up from a nightmare. About what, you ask? About iPhoto.

It's true. I'm such a nerd. I can't remember any specific examples but I'm sure this is not the first time computer programs have entered my dreams. I'm fairly sure this is the first time I've had a nightmare about any Apple product, though.

In the nightmare I had to find a specific photo in iPhoto. I was in a hurry but I don't remember why. All I remember is that I had to find this photo fast or else something bad would happen. And then the swapping began. My main desktop computer is a Mac mini with an 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor and 1 gigabyte of RAM. It's not a monster of a machine but it's alright for day to day work with Microsoft Word, Safari, Mail.app, iTunes and all the other programs I use every day. I don't know why iPhoto is so slow on this computer (and I don't know if it's just as slow everywhere else or I'm the only one with an iPhoto problem).

Just loading up iPhoto takes about 15 seconds. 15 seconds of Spinning Plate of Doom, that is. And browsing my photo library is extremely slow too, stopping every 4-5 screenfuls of pictures to swap to the harddrive. Does iPhoto want to keep a full (non-screenshot) version of every picture in memory or something? You would think so by the performance when scrolling through the library but apparently not because double clicking a photo in order to edit it gives me another 6-7 seconds of Beach Ball and jacks the virtual memory usage up 100 mb or so.

In fact, just using iPhoto right now for about five minutes for browsing some photos, seeing a few of them in full screen and editing a couple sent the virtual memory usage from around 700 mb to more than 900 mb (real memory usage is steady around 400 megs).

I'm sure there is a good reason why iPhoto runs so slowly on my machine. I'm even sure it would run perfectly if I upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM. But I really don't feel like upgrading because of a friggin' photo managing program. Everything else runs just perfectly. WTF, iPhoto!?

If anyone has any tips on how to get iPhoto running more smoothly or on other programs I might use instead I'm all ears. Otherwise I'll just cross my fingers and hope that the iLife '07 version of iPhoto won't suck as much, performance wise.

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QotD: I'm Working. Really.

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:16:12 +0100

We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?

Spend (even) more time on MetaFilter. Duh.

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My top 10 favourite albums of 2006

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:04:43 +0100

The Futureheads - News and Tributes
VETO - There's a Beat in all Machines
A Whisper in the Noise - As the Bluebird Sings
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Mikael Simpson - Stille og Uroligt
The Knife - Silent Shout
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Ty - Closer
Bonobo - Days to Come

4 UK bands
3 Danish bands
2 US bands
1 Swedish band

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:00:15 +0100

So it happened. I stopped updating this blog. Well, my new year's resolution is to try and be a little better at maintaining my online identity (whatever that means) and I guess that includes trying to post a little bit here now and again.

So...

...

I don't really have anything to say right now but here's the best snapshot I took this Christmas:

Juliana og Magnus leger

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QotD: Mmm...Brunch

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:45:22 +0200

What do you like to make or order for brunch?

I went out for brunch today, actually. I had scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes with maple syrup, coffee with milk, and freshly squeezed orange juice.

God that was a boring question. Hasn't anybody read Maggie Mason's book?

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Why can't you have normal existential angst like all the other boys?

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:59:28 +0200

Because the future is an adventure.

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Currently reading

nobody@vox.com(sveskemus) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:50:22 +0200

The Autograph Man

So I finished Oracle Night by Paul Auster and I must admit I felt a bit of "meh" finishing it. I don't know, the final part of the book was just sort of... predictable. The New York trilogy remains three of my favourite books ever. I can't exactly say the same about Oracle Night. I give it three stars out of five.

The next book on my night table[1] is The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith. I bought it totally by impulse, being in the bookstore to buy something else. I guess I just liked the cover and it was a catchy title. I've only read about thirty pages of it so far so I really haven't formed an opinion of it yet.

[1] I don't actually have a night table but I like to read before going to sleep.

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