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  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q3

    Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q3

    After getting to MGMT alphabetically, I tired of going through the list alphabetically. While I have rediscovered some music, I wanted to go back to my auto-playlists which would give me my favorites. I could always get back to going through things alphabetically in the future. One way to accomplish what I wanted was to…

  • Scarlett Asks to be Recorded

    Scarlett Asks to be Recorded

    Scarlett asked to talk in my field recorder, but she called it a lightsaber. “Daddy, can I talk in your lightsaber?” Here’s what came of that:

  • Scarlett Counts to 10 in Spanish

    Scarlett Counts to 10 in Spanish

    Although I don’t know where she picked up her pronunciation accent.

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q1

    1. I Fight Dragons (179 plays) – Over this quarter I have continued to really enjoy the B Side to The Near Future and listened to them a lot after work. Scarlett likes quite a few of those songs as well. 2. Anberlin (74 plays) – For the concert last year I put all their albums on my…

  • Last.fm 2014 Listening Trends

    Once again Scarlett had a hand in determining the year’s winners. However, sometime around June she stopped requesting Disney music all the time, allowing others a chance at the spotlight. Still, while other artists were able to take the top artist spots, I didn’t listen to any one song often enough to undermine the Disney…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q4

    1. Five Iron Frenzy (147 listens) – Many of these came from me continuing to go through my collection in alphabetical order. 2. I Fight Dragons (102 listens) – IFD’s Kickstarter album finally came out. I really like it a lot. I’ve been listening to the B side more than the song cycle, but that’s…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q3

    I continued listening to artists alphabetically on my computer and randomly on my phone. 1. Childish Gambino (92 listens) – Came across his music in my alphabetic romp. Currently conflicted. I enjoy the verbal jiu jitsu, but find a lot of it whiny (after hearing for the 15th time) and just so overly aggressively sexual…

  • Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q3

    This quarter was a mix of new music, continuing to listen to my music in alphabetical order (by artist), and whatever I happened to listen to on my phone. And that resulted in a little something like this (a lot more ties than usual): 1. The Beatles (243 listens) – For the first time in…

  • Listening Trends 2014 Q1

    I started 2014 with a bunch of music I’d acquired in 2013, but which I still hadn’t listened to. So I created a playlist with a high weight on unplayed music from Q4 2013 to Q1 2014. I changed my Amarok settings so that instead of populating the next 11 items, it would populate the…

  • Scarlett Sings Along to Yankee Doodle

    Well, more like finishing each verse, but it’s still pretty fun.

  • Last.fm 2013 Listening Trends

    This year I bought LOTS of albums. I don’t know if it’s the most albums I’ve purchased in one year since writing these blog posts or even since keeping track of Scrobbles. I do know that while I listened to my music randomly, in general, I did also listen to entire albums whenever I purchased…

  • Last.fm 2013 Q4 Listening Trends

    This quarter I mostly listened to my music on pure random with a few variations which’ll be accounted for below. This finally allowed The Beatles to place in 2013. In the last few weeks I just listened to music that I added in this quarter to make sure I had a chance to get to…

  • Last.fm 2013 Q3 Listening Habits

    This quarter was a mix of listening to the music I had at work and listening on pure random. Once again Amarok lost the first played and last played stats. Of all the stats to lose, these are the least detrimental, but it makes the “don’t play songs I’ve heard in the last x days”…

  • The Inconsistency of the Dating World

    Before continuing on, listen to this short story. (It’s only about 10 minutes long. It starts at about 1 min 50 seconds. Or read the transcript here) When I first heard this story I thought it was a pretty interesting description of the dating world and how people are often looking for people who conflict…

  • Voice Acting on Children’s toys

    When I really got into animation a few years ago, I started appreciating a lot of the aspects of animation that people don’t even realize took work. For example, in a live action movie the set designers can go buy chairs and lamps and lights. Everything in an animated work has to be created from…