After nearly sixteen long, eventful (and verbose) years, I have decided to retire my nickname.
No longer will I be known as Conceited Jerk.
It's been a good run, but CJ's best days are behind him now. Add to the fact that there are more people (mostly teenage brats) using the name, I figured it was time to move on.
Sooooo... from here on in, I'm writing this blog under my own (real) name.
Regards,
Shaun M. Wheeler.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Pass the Pepto, or Bringing Up the Past
So, my iMac 400dv died last weekend, taking with it twenty gigabytes worth of music. All that time spent ripping my CD collection over the years was for nought, and the backups I'd made are nowhere to be found.
*sigh*
Ah well, back to square one. This time however, when I re-rip my collection, I'm going to encode my tunes into an open format such as OGG Vorbis.
--
Until I set my Linux box back up and start ripping my music again, I'll have to listen to (gasp) actual CDs!
Of course, I haven't owned an honest-to-God CD player in years, so I dug my trusty ol' CDTV out from the depths of the lab and set it up in my living room.
Damn, I've missed this machine! I've forgotten how much better original CDs sound compared to your average digital music file.
While setting the CDTV up, I noticed a number of floppy disks at the bottom of the box... as the CDTV has been in storage for the last, er, decade... naturally I had no idea what was on the disks.
As it turns out, the disks (thirty-six in total) contained nothing but text files of my writing, some dating back to 1992!
I read through a few disks worth of material, and just about pissed myself laughing...
With that in mind, while I'm in the process of ripping my CDs, I'll be going through these text files, converting them from Textcraft format to a more contemporary format, and posting some of the better ones here under the label "Vintage CJ", starting 10/19/09.
Have a great weekend, folks!
*sigh*
Ah well, back to square one. This time however, when I re-rip my collection, I'm going to encode my tunes into an open format such as OGG Vorbis.
--
Until I set my Linux box back up and start ripping my music again, I'll have to listen to (gasp) actual CDs!
Of course, I haven't owned an honest-to-God CD player in years, so I dug my trusty ol' CDTV out from the depths of the lab and set it up in my living room.
Damn, I've missed this machine! I've forgotten how much better original CDs sound compared to your average digital music file.
While setting the CDTV up, I noticed a number of floppy disks at the bottom of the box... as the CDTV has been in storage for the last, er, decade... naturally I had no idea what was on the disks.
As it turns out, the disks (thirty-six in total) contained nothing but text files of my writing, some dating back to 1992!
I read through a few disks worth of material, and just about pissed myself laughing...
With that in mind, while I'm in the process of ripping my CDs, I'll be going through these text files, converting them from Textcraft format to a more contemporary format, and posting some of the better ones here under the label "Vintage CJ", starting 10/19/09.
Have a great weekend, folks!
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