If Twitter dies…

If Twitter dies either through incompetence or malice I may have to start posting on this blog again. So stay tuned! Here's a picture of the Ween show I hit last Saturday to whet your appetite.

Winter is coming

Lyrics Sites That Don't Suck

Google is great for a lot of things, but searching for lyrics isn't one of them. The first few pages of a lyric search generally give you a bunch of ad-filled pages that would probably try to install malware if I were on a PC. Over the years I have tried to collect a few bookmarks of lyric pages that aren't crap. Here they are:

• Phish: Phish.net (has extensive notes on every song as well)
• Pavement: relight the burnt match
• Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan.com (also lets you listen to every version of each song he has released - every band should do this)
• Wilco: bemydemon.org
• Silver Jews: The Corduroy Suit
• Belle and Sebastian: belleandsebastian.com
• The Decemberists: thedecemberists.com
• Arcade Fire: Us Kids Know
• Grateful Dead: dead.net (bonus: Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics)

New Blog Location

As you may have noticed, this blog has moved to http://mielcarz.blogspot.com/, since netspace.org is shutting down next year (and blogger is getting rid of ftp support, I think). Note that this move doesn't mean I'll be posting anything more frequently than I am now, most stuff I once blogged about ends up on twitter or facebook these days.

Cable Cleanup 2009

I was going through two boxes of old cables and this is what I found:

• 9 phone cords, various lengths
• 1 phone line splitter
• 2 DSL phone line filters
• 1 USB 1.0 cable, in packaging
• 1 100ft ethernet cord (for pre-wireless mobility around the house)
• 1 6ft crossover ethernet cable (pre-wireless networking of two computers)
• 1 USB Smart Media reader (does anything even use this anymore?)
• 2 Handspring Visor USB cradles
• 1 Handspring Visor USB cable
• 1 PS2 to RCA A/V cable
• 2 old cell phone AC adapters
• 1 grounded to ungrounded plug adapter
• 1 stereo RCA audio to mono RCA audio adapter
• 2 RCA audio to RCA audio cables
• 4 headphone to RCA audio cables (I can't believe I have 4 of these)
• 1 headphone to headphone (male/male) cable
• 2 headphone splitters
• 1 RCA A/V to RCA A/V cable
• 1 RCA video to RCA video (male/male)
• 1 3 foot coaxial cable
• 1 3 foot S-video cable
• 1 DVI to HDMI cable
• 1 Discman with AC and cigarette lighter adapters
• 1 Sports Walkman with belt clip and hand strap

Some of this I have already trashed, but I can't bring myself to get rid of all of it. I guess I'm kind of an A/V packrat.