ShitOuttaLuck

oakland to mountain view

back to oakland

to fremont

out to livermore

back to oakland

back to livermore

back to oakland

to bed.

And now I wanna listen to Squib Cakes…

WOW.

I didn’t get to celebrate much beyond a mini lemon-meringue pie dessert at work today.  Today also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.

π = 3.14159265…. etc

I hope someday we’ll have an imaginary unit day and and Eulers number day too.  That would be radical, but irrational.

I’m with Ted on this one.

whore

Fun show tonight! Thanks to everyone who came out to represent. Also, special thanks to Ted for taping this. I hope to post highlights as soon as I figure out how to get the video from my new HD camera onto my Mac so I can then convert it into something more appropriate for our site.

I have a couple of tickets to give away for our show, happening this Sunday March 11th.

Leave me a comment below with your email address to get ‘em.

I posted this on craigslist last night.  Do you know someone that could help us find a trombone player?  Let us know!

ShitOuttaLuck (www.shitouttaluck.com) is looking for a trombonist to join us. We rehearse in Fremont and play regularly in the Bay Area. We mix our genres: Rock, Latin, Punk, Funk, Jazz, Ska… it’s all stuff we like and have fun playing.

ShitOuttaLuck is an established (since 1998) six-piece, female fronted band (seven if you’re into us), and we’re in the midst of recording our second full-length album (read: we need trombone tracks too). If you have chops, a sense of humor, and most-importantly enjoy playing music in front of an upbeat and energetic audience, PLEASE check out our sound - and contact us!!!

If you haven’t seen it, go here http://youtube.com/watch?v=UQKk3PI-DW8

I don’t get the point - which proportedly is to demonstrate GM’s commitment to quality.  Instead, I’m left thinking about all of the “real” people that they’ve had to lay off because management can’t seem to succeed in making a quality product that people want to buy.  The ad cost somewhere around $5 million to make.  I wonder how many salaries that could have covered.

Even if the point of this ad was to shock and create a buzz - which it certainly has, it does nothing positive in my mind.  I’m even less inclined to check out a GM car after watching this.  Isn’t that supposed to be the point of buying ad time on TV? 

What do you think?

The bartender says “We don’t serve minors”. So D flat leaves, and B flat and F have an open fifth between them.

Har, Har, Har.

I’m totally hooked on it. I’ve been using Yahoo Music Unlimited since September of 2005 with my Creative Zen mp3 player. That device along with the service saved my relationship with Angela. See, at the time, I was making frequent trips to the local record shop to purchase my music, usually at a rate of 3 or more CDs a trip. For about $15/mo, I can download subscription-based music from YME, which reportedly has 2 million songs in their library (200,000 albums doesn’t sound as impressive).

Like I said, it saved my relationship, but it also saved me a load of cash and I discovered some new music in the process. But I’ve had it. Time to move on. Here’s why.

1. No way to unsubscribe from music. This should be easy. I download something I later decide is total crap. I should be able to delete the song from my library. No good. The next time I connect my device, YME downloads it again. If I cancel the download and connect the device later, YME tries to download it again. If I delete it from the device, YME syncs the music I hate again. I run YME on two machines, and one device. Between the three, there appears to be no way to get out of the infinite download loop of death.

2. Disappearing songs. Because this is a subscription service, I have to re-sync my device at least every couple of weeks so I don’t wind up in my car on a long drive with an mp3 player that can’t play any songs because the subscriptions have expired. Frequently, I’ve connected my device only to discover that the tracks have “gone missing”. It’s probably an issue with Yahoo and the label, but it’s frustrating to me nonetheless.

3. Hanging. Something in the software chokes when completing song downloads. If I have a queue on songs downloading, forget using YME for anything else. Once a song gets to the end of it’s download status bar, the application becomes totally unresponsive for sometimes minutes.

4. Crash of Death. This has happened on several occasions on both of my systems. When I try to launch YME, I get the Runtime Error crash of death. The only fix has been to uninstall YME completely and reinstall. Well, this is the last straw. I spent hours trying to get YME to work again, searching knowledge bases, scouring the internet, completely uninstalling and re-installing the software, deleting my IE cache, and going as far as searching for other yahoo related files and deleting them (apparently when you uninstall YME, Yahoo doesn’t think it’s important enough to clean up all of the crap they put on your computer). No Dice. So forget it. I’ve had it.

I guess I’ll be moving on to Urge now.