Archive - May, 2007

Weekly Album. What Happened Edition

May 21, 2007 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

As I am wont to do, I took on an idea that had legs for a while, and then derailed rather unceremoniously when I just ended up being distracted. My Album A Week idea made it a glorious 7 weeks and then stalled out. I think I just hit a stretch where I was excited for some new releases that I knew were coming out when I started the idea, and once I had those in my possession, the excitement over new releases wained, and thus an Album A Week died.

ANYWAYS, I want to semi resurrect it, but on slightly different terms. I am going to try and scoop 8-10 single songs per week via iTunes and maybe eMusic, and the songs I buy are going to largely come from some “greatest songs” lists out there. I really want to backfill my music collection with great songs and classics. Too many times I find myself skipping over 20 straight tracks in my iPod, which tells me that there is a lot of filler in between the killer in my library.

Some of the lists I want to work from are:

Rolling Stone – 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time

VH1 – Greatest One Hit Wonders

VH1 – 100 Greatest Songs From The Past 25 Years

Any other suggestions? How about a GREATEST SONG FACEOFF???!!!

Hey Everyone, I’m 29.

May 21, 2007 in Miscellaneous with 5 Comments

It is May 21, 2007. Today I turn 29.

29 is almost 30.

It feels sort of like 28 was the waiting room, and 29 is the part where you wait by yourself in the doctors office in your underwear, and at 30, the doctor comes in, looks at his clipboard and says:

“Well I’ll tell you what you’ve got here. You’re old”.

29

It isn’t that bad, just one of those birthdays where you have some mixed feelings, I would imagine at 30, the feelings are a lot less mixed. Who knows. On the bright side, this is going to be my 10th prime numbered birthday, and I am only one more year away from suiting up for an over 30 soccer league and being the youngest guy there, so I’ve got that going for me.

Oh, and also turning 29 today? Porn star Brianna Banks. Thats worth something, no?

Red Sox Tickets – Face Value

May 16, 2007 in Boston with 0 Comments

Tonight’s game was canceled and now I am sitting on two seats for a 12:35 game tomorrow against the Tigers that I cant make. Anyone want to take them at face value?

Section 20, Row 14, seats 3 and 4 (grandstand behind the plate).

$90 for the pair. If you are interested, email me at andrew@andrewteman.org. You’d need to pick them up at my office (right off the pike in Watertown) tomorrow morning.

MySpace CRUSH!

May 16, 2007 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Hey, look everyone! It’s MySpace’s own layout tool! What’s that sound you ask? It is the giant collective whimper….wait for it…turning into a full out sobbing sound coming from the big players in the MySpace profile tool arena! Sorry guys, game over!

Here is a tip to all of you clowns out there that continue to develop businesses that are dependent on MySpace to survive (not that can plug into MySpace, but that depend on MySpace):

You live and die at the whim of MySpace, so don’t get too comfortable.

One line of code changed, one snippet blocked, or one person over at MySpace decides that it is worth a day’s programming work to build something like a profile editor, and you and your silly site are rendered useless. Back to bagging groceries!

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