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  • Song In Code: Ramones, I wanna be sedated

    August 21st, 2009

    Just the first verse:

    go = Proc.new { sleep 24.hours }
    self.wants :sedatation
    begin ; nil ; end
    case go ; where "no" ; nil ; end
    self.wants :sedatation
    self.get '/airport'
    self.put '/airport/plane'
    before self.insane? do
    3.times { hurry! }
    end
    return if self.can_control? :fingers
    return if self.can_control? :brain
    5.times { "no" }

    I recorded me singing it, which is kinda stupid tbh.

    I used mencoder to convert this to something Youtube found tasty. Like this:

    mencoder -ss 15 -endpos 1:18 -vf pp=al:f,scale=480:360 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:mbd=1:vbitrate=2000 MOV01362.MPG -o MOV01362.x264

    Also, pimp for another Geek/Ukelele project: Ukepedia, all 3 million Wikipedia articles one song at a time

    Tags: code, Music, ramones, ruby, sing, song, songsincode, ukelele

    Posted in Music, Tech | 5 Comments »

  • Ukepedia: Wikipedia on the Ukelele

    August 16th, 2008

    Ukepedia is a new project by me and Louisa. Long story short: Ukepedia is Wikipedia articles performed on the Ukelele (or Ukulele if you prefer). The long story isn’t actually much longer than that.

    Here is a video of me performing the Wikipedia article “Otitis Media” (which I also performed live at The Chemic Tavern on Thursday and at Bar Camp Leeds just today).

    Record your own, upload them to You Tube and submit them to us!

    Tags: Music, songs, ukelele, ukepedia, ukulele, ukupedia, wikipedia

    Posted in Music, Personal | 1 Comment »

  • Emusic.com sucks

    February 26th, 2007

    I signed up for Emusic.com a few months ago to buy music online, but I’m fed up with them. This is my “why are you leaving?” feedback to them:

    I’d like to get what I pay for. I pay for 65 tracks but if I don’t download them within the month, they disappear. I have trouble understanding how this is a legitimate business practice – where do my tracks go? Are they distributed to the poor?

    Your business model is based on the hope that people won’t use what they pay for.

    Your business model is based on taking advantage of your customers.

    Tags: download, Music

    Posted in Music | 43 Comments »

  • Audioscrobbler

    September 7th, 2005

    I set up various music players around our house and my work to report back to Audioscrobbler a couple of months ago. Audioscrobbler keeps track (heh) of the music you play and summarises it all. Kinda cute.

    Our (me and Louisa) profile is at: http://www.last.fm/user/johnandlouisa/

    We listen to music together, but also separately (me at work too) so the results can often be skewed towards each others tastes, but we share a lot of musical interests. See if you can guess who is listening to what in particular.

    Kev and Matt Lee use it too.

    Tags: audioscrobbler, Music

    Posted in Personal | No Comments »

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