Worst song yet
H. E. L. L. O. by Vezquex
Please no comments this time.
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My Taiwanese friend declares that this is, indeed, the correct translation. Well done!
from the desk of Vezquex
Weird Song
Rangers by Vezquex
This song is one of the strangest I've ever wrote, highlighted with sliced beats and a surprise ending.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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Random sentence generator
Welcome to the CSE 143 random sentence generator!
What is the name of the grammar file? drug_confessions.txtAvailable symbols to generate are:
[_attribute, _confession, _difficulty, _drug, _intensifier, _prep, _prepP, _skill]
What do you want to generate (Enter to quit)? _confession
How many do you want me to generate? 12with just one dose of marijuana I find it easy to write a new grammar
without home-made marijuana I find it insanely easy to play guitar
with just one dose of cocaine I find it super hard to play guitar
with just one dose of laced cocaine I find it hard to weave
under the influence of marijuana I find it super easy to weave
under the influence of cocaine I find it very insanely hard to write a new grammar
without marijuana I find it very very hard to weave
without home-made marijuana I find it hard to write a new grammar
without powdered caffeine I find it hard to weave
without marijuana I find it very insanely easy to grow a beard
without caffeine I find it easy to write a new grammar
with just one dose of powdered caffeine I find it easy to weaveAvailable symbols to generate are:
[_attribute, _confession, _difficulty, _drug, _intensifier, _prep, _prepP, _skill]
What do you want to generate (Enter to quit)?
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Something New
Something New by Vezquex
Track 5 on the upcoming album, I'm in your device, amplifying your tunes.
Feedback is encouraged!
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Zen (Demo)
Track 4 on the upcoming album, I'm in your device, amplifying your tunes.
Tell me what you think of it.
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Happy winter break!
So every school in this half of the state is closed. Crazy. Some districts are trying to squeeze in make-up days in the middle of the year instead of cutting into the summer. The UW was smart enough to schedule the break so that no days would be missed. But I suppose there could be more snow in January or beyond.
I messed up my sleep schedule. I woke up at 4PM yesterday and I'll probably stay up until 8AM. I still want to program, but I keep getting distracted. I did make a few adjustments to Vortices, so that's something, but I would rather move on to newer projects or at least add some major features.
I found two really cool videos. One is from an old movie and is about an egg-eating bet. The other is a music video from a really cool band, CSS, and has trick photos. The song is insanely catchy, on the order of Side Ponytail.
I am afraid to go outside. It's toasty in here.
P.S. CSS is also famous for a song featured in an iPod commercial. True story, the commercial was originally fan-made because someone noticed that the lyrics were appropriate--"My music is where I'd like you to touch."--but Apple picked it up as a televised commercial. The song is called "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex". I was so impressed that I downloaded two of their albums. CSS stands for Cansei der Ser Sexy, Portugese for "got tired of being sexy". This came from a Beyonce Knowles quote.
I messed up my sleep schedule. I woke up at 4PM yesterday and I'll probably stay up until 8AM. I still want to program, but I keep getting distracted. I did make a few adjustments to Vortices, so that's something, but I would rather move on to newer projects or at least add some major features.
I found two really cool videos. One is from an old movie and is about an egg-eating bet. The other is a music video from a really cool band, CSS, and has trick photos. The song is insanely catchy, on the order of Side Ponytail.
I am afraid to go outside. It's toasty in here.
P.S. CSS is also famous for a song featured in an iPod commercial. True story, the commercial was originally fan-made because someone noticed that the lyrics were appropriate--"My music is where I'd like you to touch."--but Apple picked it up as a televised commercial. The song is called "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex". I was so impressed that I downloaded two of their albums. CSS stands for Cansei der Ser Sexy, Portugese for "got tired of being sexy". This came from a Beyonce Knowles quote.
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sell your music on iTunes
Wow, it finally went through after almost 2 months. "Time For a Nap" is now in the iTunes store at this address. It's really there; I checked on mom's laptop since I don't have the iTunes software installed myself. It's too bad I only did one song, but I am uploading the rest now. When these appear, in maybe another two months--Who knows?--I can start marketing and maybe make some sales.
But how many sales does it take? RouteNote states in its FAQs that the minimum balance for payout is $50. So a song is 99 cents and I believe Apple takes 34 cents (ouch), leaving 65. Then RouteNote takes 10% of this net revenue, leaving me with 0.9 * 0.65 = 0.585. I have no idea if the fractional cents are counted and compounded for payout. (There's 9/10 of a cent at gas stations, so it's possible.)
50$ / (0.585 $/sale) = 85.47 salesSince there is no such thing as a fractional sale, this means the minimum is 86 sales for payout. This isn't too bad, considering I should end up with 22 tracks total, requiring an average of only 4 sales per song. It may require slightly more if the limit per album is $9.99, although only one my two albums is affected by this, and at 12 tracks just barely.
I suggest again that you try uploading your compositions through RouteNote, even if it's just for the novelty of having your music for sale. Be aware that the web form takes a while to fill out, though. They also allow images to go with songs. I noticed that no matter if you choose the single or multiple upload option, there is only one spot to choose an image. I'm not sure what the deal is, and it's possible that I broke protocol for not using the same image for every song on an album, since I didn't consider this at first. On a spur of the moment, I took a few minutes to make an image for United, as you can see from the attachment.
P.S. I had an acronym wrong in the first email (displayed below). It's ISRC, not IRSC. It stands for International Standard Recording Code.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:37 PM, <vezquex@gmail.com> wrote:
I just uploaded a song to http://routenote.com/ so that they can sell it on iTunes and a couple other sites. RouteNote takes a 10% cut. The song has to be approved first. Sign-up wasn't too hard, but upload took kind of long because of my slow-ass (768k) connection. They won't accept it unless you have an IRSC code, which you're supposed to get from the RIAA. You can get a free one from irsc@riaa.com, but I just made my own by following the pattern (country, label, year, id):
US-VOR-07-00003
Guess we'll see if any money comes out of it!
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qwest network disclosures
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:40 AM
Subject: qwest network disclosures
To: a.martineau@qwest.com
Subject: qwest network disclosures
To: a.martineau@qwest.com
Dear A. Martineau,
I am a Qwest customer and found your email address on Qwest's Washington Network Disclosures.
I have been to the Qwest website and discovered that broadband internet is not available at my location. (My phone number is ████████████ and my location is ███████, WA.) I'm signed up to get an email when it becomes available, but there is no indication of how soon it is coming. So I started to wonder just exactly where broadband is available, since I am constantly seeing ads for Qwest broadband on television and even get flyers in the mail about it. Just recently, there was even a promotion for fiber optic service.
I learned from the FAQ that coverage exists within 15,000 feet of cabling from a central office. So the next step was to figure out where my central office. With a web search, I determined that my CO is Seattle Emerson (STTLWA04) based on my phone number ("OlympusNet DSL in WA"). Now here's where the network disclosure page becomes useful. The chart says that Seattle Emerson has "ATM" but neither "OC-12 UNI" nor "DSL Hosts VC Count to 3000 Max". Would you explain what these terms mean? My guess is that the second and/or third mean broadband availability. That would mean that Seattle Emerson does not have this in place yet. Is this true? Now, I am not exactly sure where the Seattle Emerson CO is, so I don't know if I live near enough to it. One would think so, considering that I live just off of a busy and very commercial street, Ballinger Way. It would be nice to see a map of where the COs in Washington are and what area they cover. Could you refer me to a map such as this? Or at least find out the address of Seattle Emerson so that I could locate it on a map.
Anyway, I would like to know the status of the Seattle Emerson CO as to what broadband service it offers now and the timeframe for any upgrade plans. If these questions are out of your domain, I would much appreciate it if you would relay this message to someone in the company that can better answer them. Thank you for your time.
I am a Qwest customer and found your email address on Qwest's Washington Network Disclosures.
I have been to the Qwest website and discovered that broadband internet is not available at my location. (My phone number is ████████████ and my location is ███████, WA.) I'm signed up to get an email when it becomes available, but there is no indication of how soon it is coming. So I started to wonder just exactly where broadband is available, since I am constantly seeing ads for Qwest broadband on television and even get flyers in the mail about it. Just recently, there was even a promotion for fiber optic service.
I learned from the FAQ that coverage exists within 15,000 feet of cabling from a central office. So the next step was to figure out where my central office. With a web search, I determined that my CO is Seattle Emerson (STTLWA04) based on my phone number ("OlympusNet DSL in WA"). Now here's where the network disclosure page becomes useful. The chart says that Seattle Emerson has "ATM" but neither "OC-12 UNI" nor "DSL Hosts VC Count to 3000 Max". Would you explain what these terms mean? My guess is that the second and/or third mean broadband availability. That would mean that Seattle Emerson does not have this in place yet. Is this true? Now, I am not exactly sure where the Seattle Emerson CO is, so I don't know if I live near enough to it. One would think so, considering that I live just off of a busy and very commercial street, Ballinger Way. It would be nice to see a map of where the COs in Washington are and what area they cover. Could you refer me to a map such as this? Or at least find out the address of Seattle Emerson so that I could locate it on a map.
Anyway, I would like to know the status of the Seattle Emerson CO as to what broadband service it offers now and the timeframe for any upgrade plans. If these questions are out of your domain, I would much appreciate it if you would relay this message to someone in the company that can better answer them. Thank you for your time.
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