short takes

[cellio]

As we go through the process of digitizing our non-digital music and ripping the CDs, both Dani and I have had multiple instances of iTunes crapping out on us in various ways. Usually the failure mode is that it takes over all the CPU, won't respond, and forces a reboot. Or it'll just decide to stop paying attention to the CD drive and not acknowledge the disc I just put in. Is this iTunes' doing, or Windows'?

Anyway, yesterday we ripped about 100 folk CDs. Progress. I've been going through tape-recorded Clam Chowder concerts. I hope to one day identify the source of the five stray tracks at the end of another concert tape -- a tape I had actually catalogued at the time, but I didn't record those additions. Hmm.

Links:

One Velociraptor Per Child, from jducoeur. I hope they're offering a buy-one-get-one program; Dani really wants his own velociraptor.

From shalmestere: dressage... with a camel (video). I didn't know they could do that.

From siderea: feline cavalry (video).

kyleri passed on this twist on animal rescue.

From a locked post: curry can stave off Alzheimers?. If so, I'm even happier that Sree's is now selling Indian food across the street from my office.

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

When Itunes did that for us, the usual problem was the CD drive overheating. Give it time to cool.

[byronhaverford.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty confident that you can blame iTunes. I am led to believe (by Mac users) that iTunes is really a rockin' piece of software when it runs on a Mac. But even Apple fanatics have to agree that it doesn't work right in Windows.

I've started using Windows Media. Is it an excellent program? Goodness, no. Does it cheat by having illicit knowledge of the inner workings of the OS? Yup! I find the interface annoyances to be different, but of similar severity, when compared to iTunes. The reliability of WindowsMedia is substantially higher.

Years ago, I used Roxio software, and I liked it, but it is no longer available to me for free. I cannot vouch for recent versions, but it might be worth purchasing, given the large scale of your operation.

but there are so many KINDS of curry...

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Thai? Red? Green? Massamun? Indian? With garam masala? The kind found in Japanese restaurants? The bright yellow kind that midwestern housewives think is curry? And how spicy? with meat, tofu, seafood, or other? what vegetables are involved? Fresh coconut milk or canned? With rice or with naan?

All this thinking of curry is making me hungry. Mmmm... curry....

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I liked the camel and cat videos. On further thought, those two species are actually somewhat similar - they're each capable of doing rather smart things but may or may not be willing to on command. *g*

[jducoeur]

Interesting. I haven't had this particular problem with iTunes, but I have one that might be related: if iTunes is running when I Hibernate my XP laptop, it hangs hard. Took quite a while to figure out that the problem was iTunes...