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Yeah yeah, been a while. Nothing really that new to report... been working and going to shows and listening to records and watching a lot of Babylon 5 (err forget I said that last one). A quick June recap:

• jacko walked (obviously this is the most important item)
• our team won our foosball league
• i went to vegas for a weekend (happy birthday giz)
• i went to sacramento for a weekend (and raided the outlet stores on the way back, those things are awesome)
• the republicans did a bunch of dumb crap
• the democrats did a bunch of dumb crap
• the supreme court did a bunch of really dumb crap
• the religious right got mad because I said "crap"
• the falcon rode again
• i founded the flickr doodle group
• we launched MyWeb 2.0
• i saw a lot of bands play good
• jon stewart made fun of everyone

Maybe if I feel less lazy I'll write something interesting. I've been really missing being in a band lately... maybe I'll start one. Cheers.

Posted by jake at 07:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

...goes on the blog.

Hey Trevor, guess whose bra that is...

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Today a friend turned me on to a web comic called Questionable Content. It's great. Read it from the beginning to really appreciate it. Personal favorites include:

• This diatribe on the Fiery Furnaces. Notice the description of the band, which bears a striking similarity to my own description two months earlier (in my Top 30 of 2004), when I said they sounded like "The Who, Gilbert & Sullivan, and P.J. Harvey had sex on a piano and gave birth to ADHD boy/girl twins" (ok, so maybe I'm just pretty proud of that line and was looking for an excuse to bring it up, so what).
• This one featuring a guest artist who tries (sucessfully) to piss off the indie kids.
• And this one about record reviews which details a thought process I have at least ten times each day.

Anyways, I'm off to go see Of Montreal. The supporting band, Tilly and the Wall, has a tap dancer as their rythm section. Seriously, that is ridiculous.

Posted by jake at 08:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In honor of the large amount of summer shows coming up, I thought I'd add the list of shows I'm planning to attend to the site. And since I'm a lazy bastard who has no desire to maintain a show list in more that one place, I hatched a devious scheme. Don't let the simplicity of show list you see at the left decieve you... that thing has a dynamic lifecycle all it's own. Here's how it gets generated:

• I maintain a separate calendar in my email/calendar program, Bloomba. This calendar contains only shows, with the performer name and venue in the title and description of the event.
• Using Bloomba's calendar publishing feature, I set it to autogmagically publish my calendar hourly to iCal Exchange, which is a free site that hosts iCal calendar files. The HTML version of the published calendar can be viewed here.
• Using PHP on the blog, I download the ICS version of the calendar hosted at iCal Exchange and parse it using a code chunk I found here, then I do some venue information lookup in local table and display the results.

What does this mean for you? Absolutely nuthin' ™. But I can add a show to my Treo or to my calendar in Bloomba and minutes later it will automatically appear on the blog. Hooray for me!

Posted by jake at 07:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)