Boom!

This was for official work purposes.

“Allow 11-14 calendar days for delivery, plus printing time”

Really, Chase?  For $4.25 I’d hope that maybe you could ship a single checkbook from this hemisphere.  (In-bank pickup is not an option.)

Oh, and yeah, there’s no email receipt for this purchase or anything 21st century like that. It’s not a terrible guess that the $20+ for this order came out of my checking account, but it would be polite of them to me that somewhere in the process.

educationalrap:

It’s important to find humor wherever possible.

One of the hidden joys of making websites is naming the URLs.

Oh more hell yeah.  (Free upgrade to my previous purchase.)

educationalrap:

RRR is social again!

Today we added a few new ways to help our fans spread the word.  Twitter, Facebook Connect, and Facebook Commenting are now on every song page.  Go forth!

BUZZ CITY over here

Haha, nice work, MyWebFace web team.

(Updated)

Dear Bowery Ballroom,

Could you please ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets, then charge a $4.10 processing fee.

If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 (original) to $59.80. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make over 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, label, and traveling band take in—combined. Robbery.

Old news, but still.

I’m not considering a switch, but this is Sprint’s “Any Mobile, Anytime” plan.

Our Everything Data plans give you unlimited data, messages and calls to any mobile, anytime while on the Sprint Network.

But then you choose between 450 or 900 anytime minutes?

I don’t get it.

I’m watching an entrepreneur interview and it cut abruptly to commercial—literally in the middle of a sentence.  WTF?  Hey, Business Insider and livestream: don’t do that.

Also, you can’t pause the ad.

This is a story of triumph.

I realize this is obscure, but:  if you ever find yourself doing batch file renaming, A Better Finder Rename is an incredible time saver.  (I wrote about it previously here.)

I’m in the middle of a comically tedious effort to change the embedded players on the RRR website from imeem to SoundCloud.  As a result of a process involving iTunes, Audio Hijack, and Logic, I had the following:  153 30-second preview tracks that followed a peculiar scheme.

• First 39 tracks:  original version of each song, grouped by album.
• Next 114 tracks:  alternate versions of those same songs, listed in the same order but in groups of three.

For instance, if track 1 was “Characters, Setting, Plot”, tracks 40, 41, and 42 were alternate versions of “Verb Tenses”.  Track 2 was “Dots and Dashes (Punctuation)”, so tracks 43-45 were alternate versions of it.  The alternate versions were in the same order, thankfully (Downtempo, Recall, Instrumental).

I needed a way to rename all those files without doing it manually; I refuse to do something so ghastly.  So:

• I pasted a list of the original file names into Excel and used some text functions (mostly vlookup, left, right, and concatenate) to create a pretty list.
• Then I copied/pasted that final list into a text document that simply listed all the new names, in order.
• Made a backup of my ugly-named tracks (which I later needed)
• Brought those ugly-named tracks into A Better Finder Rename, told it rename everything using my text file, and voila:  new names.

Bam!