Blog posts from 2011

  1. An imaginary mix

    Sometimes you hear something like a beat or a riff or whatever and think, well that’s nice.

    • Wayne’s World - Garth ‘I like to play the drums’
    • Steve Gadd - Playing in the pocket sample, youtube
    • Harry ‘Haywire’ McClintock - The Big Rock Candy Mountain
    • Jimmy Hendrix - And The Gods Made Love / Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
    • Thin Lizzy - Return of the Farmer’s Son (drum and guitar intro)
    • John R. Searle - Philosophy 132, lecture 7 2010 - comments on heavy metal
    • The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (film) “If you look to your left, you’ll see nothing interesting. On your right thought…”
    • David Bowie - Station to Station (use the intro, samples and intro name drop / cuts over it)
    • Isaac Asimov - Interview with Bill Moyer - sample Asimov on scale
    • T Rex - Ripoff
    • Style Wars (1983) 45 minutes in, sample dialog re: “It’s all big steel”
    • Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It (obvious cut opportunity: Why Can’t I _____ It)
    • Harry Nilsson - Rainmaker - drum intro
    • Elvis Costello - Radio Radio (live, from “Get Emotional”, intro “Does anybody listen to the radio? Does anybody like the radio?”)
    • Queen - Dragon Attack (loop beat, mash with current popular MC)
    • David Bowie - Sound and Vision
    • The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
    • Donald Duck in Math Land - sample!
    • XTC - Making Plans for Nigel - just smidgens of “EOooohh!”
    • Randy Newman - Short People
    • Muddy Waters - Electric Mud - I Just Want To Make Love To You (drum intro)
    • They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng - intro guitar, no singing
    • Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke And Sassafrass
    • Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire - middle drum solo
    • Fugazi - Casavettes (intro) #damnit megatrip for already using this
    • Tracks from the Big Lebowski Soundtrack
    • Stranglers - Nice and SLeazy (break / noise)
    • Donovan - Barabajagal (first 45 seconds or so into the hook)
    • Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson - Gotta Get Up (lots of parts, add backbeat, let it play)
    • Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (entire solo, into the chorus “goes on, and the beat goes on!”)
    • DJ Food - More Volts: The Funky Eno
    • The Who - Eminence Front
    • Tubeway Army - Steel and You (bridge through outtro)
    • Harry Nilsson - Ten Little Indians - entire track, break it up, lock the outtro
    • The Ghost of a Saber Toot Tiger (Sean Lennon) - Jardin du Luxembourg
    • Brian Eno - In Dark Trees
    • Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don’t Talk - intro beat, maybe weird “Oh Lord” chorus, and outro madness
    • The Abyssinians - Y Mas Gan - Horns!
    Posted on Blog over 14 years agoon October 09, 2011 - 3:43 AM and archived here at /blog/2011/2011-10-08-songs-i-d-like-to-play-in-a-cover-band/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2011/2011-10-08-songs-i-d-like-to-play-in-a-cover-band/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. torrent applescript folder action

    I made an OS X folder action to move .torrent file downloads to a directory watched by my torrent client. It’s pretty clumsy.

    on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving added_items
	set DroboTorrents to "storage:New Media"
	repeat with addedFile in added_items
		tell application "Finder"
			if (the name extension of the addedFile is "torrent") then
				try
					tell application "Finder"
						move addedFile to DroboTorrents with replacing
						delete addedFile
					end tell
				on error
					display dialog "Unable to move " & (name of i) with icon caution with title "Welp,"
				end try
			end if
		end tell
	end repeat
end adding folder items to

    14 years later I’m still pretty much doing the same thing, having moved from that old Drobo and Transmission to a qbittorent docker deploy on TrueNAS Scale.

    Updated for 2024

    on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving added_items
    repeat with addedFile in added_items
        tell application "Finder"
            if (the name of the addedFile ends with "torrent") then
                set qbt to "/opt/homebrew/bin/qbt torrent add '" & POSIX path of addedFile & "' 2>&1 | grep 'successfully added torrent'"
                set fileName to name of (info for addedFile)
                try
                    set response to do shell script qbt
                    set hash to word 4 of response
                    try
                        tell application "Finder"
                            delete addedFile
                        end tell
                    on error errMsg
                        display notification "ERROR deleting " & addedFile & errMsg
                    end try
                on error errMsg
                    display notification "ERROR adding torrent: " & qbt & "error: " & errMsg
                end try
                try
                    set qbt to "/opt/homebrew/bin/qbt torrent list --hashes '" & hash & "' 2>&1 | grep Size"
                    set response to do shell script qbt
                on error errMsg
                    display notification "ERROR: listing torrents by hash: " & hash & " Command: " & qbt & "error: " & errMsg
                end try
                display notification response with title "Torrent Downloading" subtitle fileName
            end if
        end tell
    end repeat
end adding folder items to
    Posted on Blog over 14 years agoon October 03, 2011 - 8:37 AM and archived here at /blog/2011/2011-10-03-osx-folder-actions-to-move-downloads/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2011/2011-10-03-osx-folder-actions-to-move-downloads/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Stephen King on fiction

    JP: I’ll tell you what I responded to. In the last two paragraphs, the tears sort of jumped to my eyes, but I realized that it wasn’t the deaths, oddly enough, that I was responding to – it was the bravery of the old poet, staggering around.

    …

    SK: Yeah, but when fiction works for me it works on an emotional level first
    and an intellectual level second. If you say that tears jumped to your eyes,
    even if they were metaphorical tears –

    JP: They weren’t. They were physical tears.

    SK: Oh …

    JP: I sniffed a little bit.

    SK: (laughs) That’s good. Well, James, it was all made up.

    From an interview with James Parker at The Atlantic.

    Posted on Blog over 15 years agoon April 14, 2011 - 1:25 PM and archived here at /blog/2011/2011-04-14-stephen-king-on-fiction/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2011/2011-04-14-stephen-king-on-fiction/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Synecdoche and Metonymy

    Look:

    Because synecdoche is a concept intimately associated with metonymy, not
    calling metonymy by name, one could claim that synecdoche is a metonym for
    metonymy. By similar standards, because synecdoche is a subset of metonymy,
    synecdoche is also a synecdoche of metonymy. The converse is also true.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy#Synecdoche

    Metonymy - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
    Posted on Blog over 15 years agoon January 21, 2011 - 3:43 PM and archived here at /blog/2011/2011-01-21-synecdoche-and-metonymy/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2011/2011-01-21-synecdoche-and-metonymy/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.
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