BaD Omen

On 01/29/2014 at 11:54 PM by Super Step

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A couple cartoon hints at what I plan to do with a particular pun and its obvious theme.

But first, sleep, reading, unfucking the rest of the songs I "fixed" today, and telling you about my day before that:

I've been following the diet and exercise plan my friend set for me to lose fat/build lean muscle. After having lost weight and mostly doing cardio and not eating much in Winter 2012/2013, I'm digging this 2,000 to 3,500 calories/150g+ protein thing, even if myfitnesspal keeps telling me to cut it out (I updated my goals, though, so that should be better now). It's amazing how my raw ability to lift things has gone down, yet the ease with which I can lift a percentage of my body weight has gone up. Well, not really amazing, it's not an undiscovered science, but the difference is quite noticeable to me.

I also found out I had $15.99 left on iTunes, which I haven't used since 2009. I used it to buy Macklemore's VS EP Redux, along with a couple extra Heist songs not on my copy, "Victory Lap" and "My Oh My," which is about late Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus. I can't identify with being that excited by a sports announcer (they all sound the same to me), but while I was once very bored with baseball, watching the Red Sox around '04 made me see how the boring moments could actually be really tense. Plus, I dug renting N64 games with Pudge Rodriguez (Texas Rangers, yeah! Please win a World Series. Please. So close!) and Ken Griffy Jr.'s name on them as a kid, so I can relate to the song that way. Also, it's just a great tribute; they played the song at Seattle Mariners' field (whatever it's called) as part of a tribute to Neihaus.

The other plus of iTunes being on a computer of mine again is I think I may have regained those two missing Dethalbum II tracks from when I first botched its download in 2009. At least, "Murmaider II" and ... whatever the other one was called are in my library now, it looks like, so hopefully it syncs. I will say I don't recall iTunes asking for a password every time you sneezed, but I guess it's more secure that way? But wouldn't I also be sending my info multiple times? Oh well, I signed up for Target Ticket cause it was free, clearly I'm not smart enough to be worried about card identity theft. Speaking of which, if you didn't know, Target Ticket gives you ten free movies. Between them and Google Play, I feel like the most legitimate Internet pirate ever.

I plan to use my remaining iTunes funds, that I'm pretty sure came from a gift card, to get Eagle Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight" on the station, if tomorrow I look and it's still not there. A DJ last semester gave me a list of songs she thought we should have and when I saw that on the list and checked and didn't find anything, I thought "we've failed as an alt rock station. Unacceptable." I'll be asking this semester's DJs what other songs we need and use my remaining funds on those songs. If you're curious, we are licensed with BMI (fucking three day report had to be done manually last semester; never again) and ASCAP and according to my GM can play whatever the hell we want as long as it's alternative as far as format/genre (which can mean a lot of things, let's be honest). I've gotten songs uploaded from e-mails from bands she's forwarded me, as well as random CDs we get in.

If you're curious about what happened today as far as what I'm unfucking tomorrow, feel free to ask and I'll explain when I'm more lucid and after I've read those 60 remaining pages for my 4pm research class tomorrow. It's actually not my fault what happened, but takes a second to explain.

See you. Night for now.

Chris Yarger Community Manager

01/30/2014 at 05:48 AM

MURMAIDER MURMAIDER MURMAIDER

Super Step Contributing Writer

01/30/2014 at 10:14 AM

Aaaand it synced something totally weird, so that my iPod has only the songs I dl'd yesterday. I don't agree when people tell me Apple products are less complicated. As a PC user, they confuse the shit out of me.

KnightDriver

01/30/2014 at 12:25 PM

Oh this! Ha Ha! Haven't watched Dethklok in a while.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

01/30/2014 at 07:52 AM

60 pages?!?

01/30/2014 at 10:12 AM

Actually, 47, sorry. Did not make as much of a dent in those 68 pages total as I thought, guess Chapter 4 was short.

01/30/2014 at 11:14 AM

that's a lot of reading! i can read that much of a novel i like in a day, but a text book, i dunno

01/30/2014 at 02:05 PM

It's not terrible, it has boxes I don't necessarily have to read, and I can skim and get the concepts down. It's a research book, and a decent bit of it is Science 101 for me.

mothman

01/30/2014 at 08:58 AM

Legitimate Pirate? Jumbo Shrimp, Original Copy, Living Dead.... See where I'm going with this?

01/30/2014 at 10:17 AM

Not really, to be honest. Are those names of Pirate Bay-esque websites? You may not believe that I'm a 23-year-old white male in the U.S. who has never knowingly made an illegal download outside of SNES/Genesis games for zSNES/whatever Genesis emulator it was I later deleted from my hard drive on an old laptop when I realized the stuff I had was still being sold/under copyright, but it's true. You will believe I'm prone to run-ons!

I would like some jumbo shrimp, though.

01/30/2014 at 10:26 AM

Like Legitimate Pirate the other 3 are oxymorons. :)

01/30/2014 at 02:00 PM

I'm going to get a Master's degree. Be sad. lol

C.S.3590SquadLeader

01/30/2014 at 12:09 PM

iTunes can be pretty weird at times. There was this one time where out of nowhere over half my library up and vanished. It turns out all the files were still there on the hard drive of my laptop, but iTunes for whatever reason deleted one specific file and it all went to hell from there.

01/30/2014 at 02:02 PM

It's annoying. In my case, they erased my old library from (hopefully only) my iPod, so I guess I just need to import things into my new library and resync everything.

01/30/2014 at 12:27 PM

The latest update to iTunes didn't work on my system. I guess this is where the updates stop.

Bleh.

Aboboisdaman

01/30/2014 at 04:52 PM

I bought a Sony Walkman mp3 player mostly because of iTune's horrid interface. I couldn't figure out how to do crap on there, and was too lazy to care lol. Good luck with your new diet Joe.

01/31/2014 at 12:29 AM

Thanks. It's been easy to follow, I pay way more attention to protein than calories, since the 3,500/day cap, 2,000 minimum for calories gives me lots of leeway. I basically have just been getting a lot of meat from the school cafeteria. The annoying thing is the high protein stuff is always an entree, and they only allow you to get one at a time. I'm gonna talk to the campus nutritionist next Thursday, though, so should be able to balance my diet a bit more.

The thing with me is, I'm more than happy to follow the plans I'm told to (which is how I went from 218 in November 2012 to below 150 in November 2013 to 155 now), but nutrition is confusing as shit unless I have everything laid out for me as far as meals.

NSonic79

01/31/2014 at 01:27 PM

Oh you know it's a BaD omen when you have Family Guy posted *shudders*

never got into itunes. Or for much music owning myself. Got to confusing with the DRM with songs these days. Thus I still sport the old skool CD format.

It's amazing though that your still able to write somethinggiven all that is on your plate. I wouldn't be able to do it, my brain would've melted.

Play more Drowning Pool! that is all...

01/31/2014 at 01:37 PM

I haven't watched it in years (notice the 08 mark), but has it really gotten that bad?

More than 95% of what I own is CDs, but some things are just easier to get online. Especially useful when I only want one song, not a whole LP.

There's not as much on my plate as I may let on. I only work part time and only take two Masters courses. Honestly, it's my own fault, I drink too much workahol, and wind up doing more than needed.

Drowning Pool pre or post the original lead singer's death? And good on ya for asking for a band from Dallas. I saw them post original lead singer death at a summer tour with Motley Crue and Godsmack headlining, and they were great.

01/31/2014 at 01:48 PM

Both! I actually enjoy pre and post. Bodies was my perfect song as I played all my FPS's on easy mode. Very fitting.

Step Up is another great tune that I really enjoyed. It's my personalized ringtone for my Dad whenever he calls.

I don't get to hear them much anymore. Now it's just that Fallout Boys, Machamore or something and Imagine dragons. And oddly that mumford and sons is making the rounds in my alt rock station. I practicallyed jumped out of my skin and cranked it when they played some Rob Zombie. Very rare!

01/31/2014 at 02:08 PM

I know those songs. I believe we have both.

Yeah, my alt rock station plays all the artists you mention. I understand the frustration, but just some reasons behind these choices:

"Macklemore," real name Ben Haggerty, refused all major label deals and convinced Warner Bros. music to simply release his songs to radio, which he's been saying is all major labels are good for any more. So, while he is technically a rap/now pop artist, he definitely got to where he is by alternative means and good business sense. Of course, the song we have by him, "Same Love," may be too popular now. I've been thinking to replace it with "Otherside," an older song of his that samples the RHCP song of the same name. People seem to prefer his older stuff, anyway.

Fall Out Boy is just the new Blink 182 et al., so I get that it's not everyone's taste, but pop punk bands have been on alt. rock stations since the early 90s at least, so that's not going to stop happening any time soon.

Imagine Dragons are popular, but they are definitely a rock group, to me they sound like a lot of the bands from the 2000s like Linkin Park etc. that were popular in middle school. I get tired of them, but their performance at the Grammys with Kendrick Lamar was showstopping, and if I find a way to get that performance on mp3, I'd love to have it. It was pure energy.

We have a guy call up and request NIN and tell us we're his favorite station all the time.

We do have Rob Zombie.

I try to keep it so that we're comparable to professional alt rock stations like 102.1 The Edge in Dallas (formerly 94.5, when I was young), but play songs they don't, since we're a non-commercial station and can get away with it.

I'm planning to have my DJs help me with what songs we need/need to take out. One of my better DJs requested more Volbeat, I know we need Eagle Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight," and several songs we have don't belong, etc.

Coolsetzer

02/02/2014 at 09:47 AM

Urgh. I hate iTunes. The most UN-user friendly media player ever. The damn thing keeps forgetting where all my music files are. Also, I have totally given up on trying to get videos to play on it.

02/02/2014 at 01:34 PM

Hopefully, I can solve my problem, but iTunes sucks appears to be consensus.

PixlBit

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