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Here a bunch of us are at The Jackalope participating in our Ode to Alcoholism Drinking For Cirrhosis. Stats Below

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Today I was made aware of rb-appscript which is a Ruby library which hooks into applevents making it a nice substitute for Applescript. Here is a quick little script I did to try it out: [ruby] require “appscript”

AS.app(’Aperture’).projects.get.each do |project| p “project: ” + project.name.get project.albums.get.each do |album| p ‘album: ‘ + album.name.get end end [/ruby] Which nicely prints out as:

"project: ACL Day 2"
"album: flickr"
"project: ACL Day 3"
"album: flickr"
"project: ACL day 1"
"album: flickr"
"project: BBQ"
"project: Pikes Place Market"
"album: my album"
"project: Ratatat"
"project: Redmond Day 1"
"album: redmond album"
"project: atx"
"project: Puerto Rico, Oct 2006"

Combine this with some ruby-cocoa magic and you can easily build native looking applications that can use applescript in a much easier manner than Cocoa alone.

And that my friends is pretty damn sweet.

Not it! Mass. elementary school bans tag - Yahoo! News: “Recess is ‘a time when accidents can happen,’ said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.”

Lets raise a bunch of antisocial brats.

Christian Fundamental Dominionism

A bit of both…

This years ACL has passed (a week ago, I know, I’ve been slow with this.) and it was a blast. We saw roughly around 19 bands and walked Zilker park side to side quite a few times. A play by play review including a Thursday show is after the jump, pictures on flickr…

Note: I’ve been sitting on this for a while and still didn’t go into as much detail as I would’ve liked

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On Thursday we went to see Ratatat at Emos. We first discovered these guys during the summer of 2004 at a The Killers show at Stubbs Indoors (This is quite a small venue which is weird since around August The Killers blew up and the only thing you’d here on was “Somebody Told Me” or “Mr. Brightside”). They were one of the opening bands and we really liked their music, quickly after I got their first album and was saddened quickly by the lack of more of their music. Recently they released their new album “Classics” which met my expectations fully, it was more music that sounded exactly the same as the first album.

For this show we were expecting it to be mildly populated, not empty but not exactly busting at its seams and we also were expecting it to be kind of mellow since Ratatat is not exactly Rocking music. Well I am surprised to say that we were wrong at both counts, the show was actually really full and they actually rocked pretty hard. At the right moments during most of their songs they just went crazy and rocked the place. It was a great show and lots of fun. Pics on flickr