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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
First Crack 98. I Drink Coffee From a Cat’s Butt
“It really does taste different: musty, heavy, rich, strangely complex. Hints of chocolate, old wood, hazelnut. Fresh out of the roaster, it smelled a bit like a newborn baby’s urine.” – Sam Buchanan On the first nice Saturday of the year, Sam Buchanan and I met at Coffee and Tea Ltd for a $10 cup …
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AppleScript: Create M3U file from iTunes Playlist
After Peter‘s request for a ‘play all’ in the SXSW pick list, I whipped up this Applescript that creates a .m3u, streaming playlist, file using TextMate. The toughest part was translating iTunes’ MM:SS formatted track time into seconds for M3U. MakeM3UFromiTunesPlaylistInTextMate.scpt
Garrick’s 80 SXSW 2007 Showcasing Artist Picks
When I started listening exactly 3 weeks ago, I was tossing out so many songs, I started wondering if there was anything fun and interesting in the 739 tracks. In fact, true to Sturgeon’s Law, 89% of the tracks didn’t do anything for me. Follows are the 80 tracks that, listen after listen, both pulled …
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AppleScript: Send iTunes Playlist to MarsEdit
In preparation for declaring my picks from the 2007 SXSW Showcasing Artist tracks, I’ve put together an Applescript that pulls the track names, artists, ratings, and comments from an iTunes playlist and sends them to MarsEdit for blog posting. The script even makes a half-hearted attempt to guess the artist’s website and direct mp3 link. …
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:23:44 PM
I finished the first listen through the 2007 SXSW Showcasing Artist collection. 87 tracks made the cut to round 2. Just slightly better than Sturgeon’s Law. Round 2 is in progress.
Thank God
“The church I focus on in my article attracts 10,000 West Michigan suburbanites each Sunday. It meets in what used to be shopping mall. They’ve converted over the WHOLE MALL–with shops now serving as Sunday school classrooms and meeting spaces for events throughout the week.” – Zack Exley Deserted shopping malls and Super Wal-Marts are …
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:41:17 PM
“Garrick’s Army of Independent Bloggers ” – Dave Cecchi Crap. The word is getting out. Still, the cool thing is…some of you don’t even know you’re enlisted. 😉
Monday, March 12, 2007 2:19:18 PM
While I haven’t posted about it, the All-Star Amazing Race is well underway. Last night was the first evening this season I felt it was good and engaging. Uchenna and Joyce helped another team reach the pitstop to eliminate Rob and Amber. That’s how the Amazing Race is different. As I’ve mentioned many times before …
Stranger than Fiction: Best Movie by 13 Minutes
13 minutes in, I declared Stranger than Fiction the best movie I’ve seen in 2 years. A result of the crisp cinematography, the “Pop-up Video”-esque info-graphics, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-esque narration, a storyline in the vein of Being John Malcovich or Fight Club, and engaging performances by Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhall, and Emma …
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