There’s this guy working at the front desk who’s really bad at using the radio. He’ll say things like “Housekeeping to Todd,” when he’s Todd*, and he’s trying to get a hold of Housekeeping. It makes it sound like he’s commanding them to answer.
Then he says stuff like “Can someone help the customer in the computer center with the printer?” or “Can someone open the door to the Princeton room?” Which is ridiculous, because it’s not like just anyone will do these things, there are specific responsibilities for specific people. So on the one hand, it sounds passive aggressive, like “Can someone fix the printer?” is really intended for Joe from engineering. On the other hand, if that specific person isn’t listening, everyone else just ignores it, and the customer gets screwed. The other day I found this guy standing in the hall, and I realized about 15 minutes before, Todd had radioed for someone to open the door to a meeting room. Now you know… the rest of the story.**
Hopefully late tomorrow I’m going to post a song that Kelly and I wrote. It’s not entirely sensical. We wrote the lyrics for one of the titles on songfight.org, but then we didn’t start recording until today. So it wasn’t ready for the songfight, but it also wasn’t ready today, which you’ll remember is my not kept deadline for creating something each week.
Update: here’s the song! States That Mate – “Robot Candidate”
Hey guys, I was just listening to the album “If you’re feeling sinister” by a band called Belle & Sebastian. It’s really good! I think these guys could be big!!
A couple (few?) months ago my hard drive died. Being retarded I hadn’t backed up in a really long time. I lost a bunch of source files from recordings, email, pictures and a variety of documents. But, I just downloaded a bunch of pictures that I had previously uploaded to Flickr. I’m really happy about that because although I still lost a bunch of pictures, in a sense the “essential” pictures were the ones I had uploaded to Flickr, so I still have them. If I upgrade to a Pro account I could actually get the original files. So thanks Flickr, for existing.
P.S. If you want to send me any pictures from time we spent together, or recordings you made of me interviewing my grandparents about their childhood, please do.
I put up a new song on myspace and the website. You can go here to listen to it. (I also put up the other songs I’ve been doing for songfight) The new plan is to create something every week. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll do songs, but I was thinking about messing around with making videos or doing cartoons or whatever.