Category Archives: Music

Being a geek makes me happy :D

I came to this page and was immediately hit with a massive bout of exhaustion. That makes no sense, since I slept all night, if anything I’m over sleeping as of late. Despite that, I’m determined to explain why I’ve been so happy for the past few days.

First, my passion for working in industry, with a team of people, has totally been reignited. For some reason I found myself on Tumblr again, which I’m loving. Somehow I ended up at the official Tumblr staff account, and dawdled around people like Jacob Bijani’s tumblelog. I honestly spent an entire night, probably the best part of six hours, reading the latest ten pages. Wikipedia style, I kept ending up at random web pages he links to (and then pages those pages link to) and found masses of amazing stuff.

Ultimately that night I ended up at taking a look around tumblr offices. Gosh, how much I’d love to have a desk like that, have actual projects to work on, and people around me to do that stuff with. I mean, I’m all for being a lone programmer when I need to be, but sometimes it’s just cool to geek out of programming. I don’t really have anyone like that at the moment.

Second, I found an article on Wired (via reddit) on “hack spaces“. Pretty much a workshop for awesome people to meet up and work on stuff. Hardware tinkering, programming, tonnes of different stuff. They usually have a persistent space, like a rented room or something, where they can keep their stuff and just waste an entire day away. I hear that some are open 24/7.

Turns out it’s not just an American thing (it didn’t even start in America), but there’s a whole group of people all over the world. I found that there’s a hack space being created in Birmingham that I really want to be apart of. I’m not sure how I’m going to afford it; these things are funded by their community, with members paying a subscription. There was talk of it being about £50 a month, which I don’t think I’ll be able to make. Since I’ll be in Leicester most of the time, it might work out cheaper to just pay for meets I attend.

I’m massively excited about this.

The third thing is MCR  released a song for Watchmen. You’ve no idea how happy it makes me to hear their music again. Gerard’s voice just makes me grin like a lunatic. Honestly, standing in the middle of the street with a huge grin, lunatic. Considering it’s the thing that makes me happiest, I’ve no got much to say about it…

Folie à Deux

I heard a couple of tracks from Fall Out Boy’s new album on Kerrang! Radio last night and was amazed. First I was amazed because… well, I never realised that FM radio was transmitted in stereo. Radio stations should do this more often. It was refreshing to hear a song like that. The quality was surprisingly good too, for a radio station. Talk shows would be twice as awesome (well, some of them) if they were in stereo too. It just seems like a logical thing to take advantage of.

I was mostly amazed because the tracks they played were awesome. Usually with Fall Out Boy stuff I have to spend a while getting used to it, but this immediately grew on me. I’m totally happy I decided to get that subscription for last.fm.

High quality audio porn

My sister went off and acquired (through undisclosed methods) The Black Parade because she didn’t have access to my CD. She downloaded the 567kb/s version. I may masturbate to this.

I think I’d die if I ever got flac versions. (And I found a codec for them for Windows Media Player.)

It’d be interesting to see the SERPs refferals to this page.