Seriously trivial thoughts
Bought a Groupon for kayaking the new Mission Reach Paddle Trail near Padre Park. It’s a pretty area just south of downtown and a lot of work has been put into the river here. Stacey Banta, who runs Texas Pack & Paddle (www.txpaddlesports.com), was the tour guide and she supplies everything for you, including the …
[singlepic id=581 w=320 h=240 float=left]Ok, when did they start using the perfect bag for microwave popcorn??? Clear sides and an easy open bag. Why did it take they so long to do this? Genius! This is Orville Redenbacher’s Kettle Korn btw.
I bought a Groupon for horseback riding at the Hollow Tree Ranch in New Braunfels. Relatively cool morning weather and it was a lot of fun! Highly recommended. [nggallery id=36]
UPDATE 2016-05-16: Spotify doesn’t seem to allow you to drag and drop anymore. Another way I’ve found to fix missing local songs is to create another local files source in Preferences and moving all of the local files to this new folder. Still seems to be hit and miss though. One of the great things …
I’m taking a bold step today. I’m going to start relying on Spotify and not physical MP3 files for my music. I have two main playlists: one for favorite songs and another for keeper albums. On the Keepers playlist, I only put the first track of an album. I can go into the playlist and click …
I finally discovered that Spotify has a Billboard Hot 100 playlist and I’m liking it a lot. (I’ve been looking for this for years btw!) It seems to update every Thursday. I hate the commercials and inane talking on Top-40 radio, so this gets me the latest tunes without the crap. Missing from the Billboard …
I finally got a Kinect. Up until now, I really didn’t feel compelled to get one. Waving your arms around to control the Xbox just seemed more fad than useful. However, a friend of mine showed me how you can control the Xbox using voice commands. THAT was it. I ordered one on my phone …
I decided that I wanted to move iTunes from my Windows XP desktop to my new MacBook Air. You’d think that Apple would have “a button” to do that. You’d be wrong. There are many how-to blog posts that talk about how to copy over the files. I tried a few, but none seemed to be …
I’ve been playing with Slacker a lot recently due to their free one-month Premium service. I blogged about it here. I am really liking the iPhone and iPad apps a lot, and I also like their playlists. However, with the introduction of their On Demand feature, where you can play specific songs, they *REALLY* need …
It’s probably a preemptive strike with all of the cloud music services popping up and Apple’s entrance into this space almost assured, but Slacker is running a promotion for a free one-month subscription to their premium service. I’ve looked at Slacker before, but they’ve added some awesome features worth a revisit. Subscription Music vs Cloud …