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Happy Friday! Well, it's just like Friday since we're off tomorrow. At least, I think we're off. I'm off anyway.
So LoudTwitter is down and apparently gone for good. The guy running it posted a blog entry - something about motherboards and hard drives. Then he mentioned that it costs like $500+ a year to run it and through donations he only gets about $300+. What's funny is if you go to Twitter and type in "loudtwitter" in the search box, you see all these people bitching about it. "Oh - I HATE LoudTwitter! It isn't posting my stuff and now my life is nothing but a bunch of ashes." Golly. You do realize that you've been using it without issues for months now and not paying for it, right? Come to think of it, Twitter is free too. Are you going to gripe when that goes down? And what's going to become of Ashton Kutcher? We'll never know what he had for lunch now.
Maybe people need a good dose of buying software to help reset their baseline. How about, hmm, let's see - an Adobe Photoshop license and two Microsoft Office licenses? There, that ought to do it...
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Lately, we get all of our news from The Daily Show. The most interesting guest was on the other night talking about music.
So LoudTwitter is down and apparently gone for good. The guy running it posted a blog entry - something about motherboards and hard drives. Then he mentioned that it costs like $500+ a year to run it and through donations he only gets about $300+. What's funny is if you go to Twitter and type in "loudtwitter" in the search box, you see all these people bitching about it. "Oh - I HATE LoudTwitter! It isn't posting my stuff and now my life is nothing but a bunch of ashes." Golly. You do realize that you've been using it without issues for months now and not paying for it, right? Come to think of it, Twitter is free too. Are you going to gripe when that goes down? And what's going to become of Ashton Kutcher? We'll never know what he had for lunch now.
Maybe people need a good dose of buying software to help reset their baseline. How about, hmm, let's see - an Adobe Photoshop license and two Microsoft Office licenses? There, that ought to do it...
(insert random segway here)
Lately, we get all of our news from The Daily Show. The most interesting guest was on the other night talking about music.
It inspired me to go download some music from Amazon. Well, it inspired me to get the book, but it's not as handy as electronic music. It's one of the few things I buy anymore - online music. Anyway, I didn't go out intending to buy classical music. In fact, I was really thinking about "Kiss" by Tom Jones - and I came really close to buying his whole album because it was a steal online, but at the last minute I realized that I probably can't take "What's new Pussycat?" more than maybe 5 times - and that's in a year, not just in a day. It might even be for a whole lifetime, and I'm already at probably three listens. Then I'd regret ever buying it and blah, blah, blah. I remembered the Oliver Sacks interview and I looked up Bach and Amazon had a steady supply of it, but what caught my eye was this one:
Which, really, really has 99 songs on it and it's only $7.99. I thought it was a misprint but I couldn't see anything to the contrary. Then I thought - well, maybe I'll buy it and they'll charge me more - blah, blah, blah. Oh, well - I hit "buy" and it's still downloading. Now, yes, I know that some classical music is public domain at this point and just maybe they've collected it all up and packaged it nice so some idiot (me) can buy it - and I did. I feel like I'm on one of the infomercials "You'd probably pay HUNDREDS of dollars for this!" but wait!
So, what's the big deal - and why Bach?
Well, I think you can best get that from the interview - which, like I said, was interesting...
