Fest in progress

Submitted: Friday, March 26, 1999 04:04

Things are getting crazy around here. Jaeger, Bouncing, and myself are festing for the second night in a row. Right now, Garbage is pumping out over Dagobah's speakers, and Bouncing and Jaeger are making coffee in the kitchen.

We just finished a long debate about shockwave, the internet, and whether html should have color tags, with Bouncing arguing that Shockwave should not be used, the Internet was never designed for masses of people to use as it is, and that color and other nicities of modern html are a perversion. Jaeger and I are inclined to think he's nuts, but it's been a fun and interesting discussion.

The discussion is now resuming with Jaeger asking Bouncing whether the </p> tag should be used. The jokes continue...

On tonight's fest, Jaeger has been trying to get quake to work properly with sound AND video on Enterprise, and I don't know what else. Bouncing has been programming software for hire, and I've created the first experimental version of a real-time lyrics display system.

Much to Bouncing's dismay, we've listened to a lot of Alanis on this fest (although right now, we're listening to various other mp3s). I've been totally into Alanis music ever since the concert, and fortunately Jaeger enjoys it too. When I found myself picking up the Alanis lyric books every five minutes to rediscover another amazing profundity, I decided to implement an idea I've wanted to do for the longest time. Type (or otherwise obtain) a text file with lyrics to a song, run my program, and hit a key each time the lyrics should advance a line. Then, when playing the song in the future, run the program and it will show the lyrics as they're sung. Right now, it's just a console-mode text program, but we've got all these ideas about gtk-izing it, patching it into cthugha, and various other wild plans, only a small fraction of which are really likely to happen.

Back to the fun.