Jay McGavren's Journal

Narrow Stairs

D and I are both definitely liking Narrow Stairs (Death Cab for Cutie). “Cath…” is a whole season of a TV drama wrapped up in a single song. “Bixby Canyon Bridge” evokes the lyrical part of “Different Names for the Same Thing”, “I Will Posess Your Heart” the rambling jam session part. There’s a few songs that are mediocre by the band’s standards but that means you merely listen to them instead of include them on “soundtrack of my life” mixtapes.

Plans remains the album to get first, but if you’re hungry for more after that, Narrow Stairs may satiate you.

What close button?

This isn’t a good first experience for a new major revision of the app you use most…

I saw what was going on immediately, of course (assumptions about my config), but if even a small percentage of those 8 million downloaders get confused by this, it’d be better to just leave that friendly little message off. (Personally, I’m sick of the welcome pages altogether, since I get one every time FF upgrades itself.)

Just had to point that out, because I’m used to better from the Firefox team. Aside from that my initial impressions are positive; the interface looks cleaner, and maybe more responsive (that could be the placebo effect though).

Whatever your expectations of The Happening may be, it’s probably not going to live up to them. Hell, it didn’t even piss me off like I was expecting, cause it actually has a couple moments. But that’s before they begin beating you over the head with the “mystery”.

lolmagnets

Some commands I'd like to be able to issue my computer right now...

play x: Play something (music/game/movie/etc.) with a #playback_speed of 1. Take present users and their preferences into account if possible, but if not, play everything available. show x: Show a still, silent representation of the current item (music/game/movie/text/etc.) without actually playing it. next x: Move to the next item (track/game/movie/etc.) in the given collection. previous x: Opposite of next. fast forward x: Double #playback_speed of the current item (music/game/movie/etc.) rewind x: Like fast forward x, but with a negative value. pause x: Like fast forward x, but with a zero value. delete x: Remove the current specified item (music/game/movie/etc.) from its collection. list x: List the items in the given collection (music/games/movies/etc.) create x: Create something (audio/game/movie/text/etc.) and add it to the appropriate collection. Not sure if it should be automatically opened in an editor or if an explicit edit x command should be issued. edit x: Edit the current specified item (music/game/movie/etc.)