Organizing iTunes
Vanessa and I both share the entire music library on the MBP. We both have our own particular taste with music but regardless of what we listen to, one thing is for sure; our library will only get larger and larger and it can become unmanageable if you don’t tame that beast right away.
I could have taken the exhaustive route of manually doing drag & drop into playlist that I created but as a pragmatist, I decided to utilized an overlooked function that iTunes makes readily available to make sorting less daunting. I used Smart Playlist.
In my case, I didn’t have each of my songs categorized into genres, so I spent 1hr of my life taking care of that. The main advantage to using the “sorting by genre” route is that it then becomes very easy to create smart playlists based off of this by either including or excluding certain genres. Not completely rocket science but more about patience in organizing your music.
The most surprising thing about the film is not the amount of weed smoked by the movie’s leads, or the number of bad guys they take out, but how with all this action, the movie still fails to deliver full closure in the plot and leaving loose ends. The film was relatively enjoyable but not as nearly memorable as Superbad. If you were to trim 20-30 minutes of footage, the endless profanity and drug humor would have been more consistent thus eliminating some dead spots.
2008 Olympics
In Chinese culture, the number 8 is considered more lucky than the number 7, and the people will go out of their way to choose this number over anything else. Not surprisingly, 88 is twice as lucky, and the more 8s you have present, the more fortunate you’ll be in life, so there’s no coincidence that the Olympic opening ceremony was chosen to take place today on 8-8-08.
Very much like the presidential race this year, these worldwide games only happen every 4 years, so how could you not be excited about it? Some fellow friends are only more interested in the medal count, which is fine if you support your country but the real excitement for me will be the story lines behind the action and the drama of a good competition. I’m looking forward to so many events but in particular basketball, gymnastics, swimming, track and soccer.
