On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:13:48PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: > On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: > > I've relocated to Florida (Palm Bay), and am trying to set > > up shop here as a KJ. > Well, no shit. Welcome to sunny (where, by sunny, right now I mean > 'rainy') Florida. > > Indeed. It's quite a bit nicer than Colorado's weather though.
I'll bet. > > but software projects are paying the bills right now. I've got > Was that what brought you here? > > No, not really. A woman did. You'd think I'd have learned from the first > time I moved from one state to another to live with somebody -- maybe I'll > learn from this one. So I found out further down, and forgot to go back and edit this. Nice to have a portable skill, though, isn't it? > > There's a lot left to automate, as for now I run things by > > hand as far as firing off new CDG songs, videos, etc. > Yep. > And it's that "by hand" stuff I want to package up and automate. > > Same here. I've got a Python module built that can automatically > handle song rotations (i.e. you hand it names, songs, etc., and > it timestamps each submission (and new singer), counts total > performances by each singer per night, and performs weighted, > balanced rotation management to keep the "average wait time per > singer" down. How does that play in Peoria? Most of the KJs in my market use strict rotation, and most of the circuit singers don't well tolerate anyone who doesn't. Including me. :-) > Ironically I'm not using that right now at all since > I put the new display software together. I'm curious about the new > hardware you're talking about (with touch-screens not requiring a > pen, etc.); we'd previously talked about older/cheaper hardware but > I'd like to see these new targets. Cool. I'll try to find you the best page on them to look at. > > And where's your blog again? > > [2]http://willfe.com/ I > haven't written much in it lately, mostly > because the biggest > reason I moved here in the first place turned > out to be one > hell of a lie (it involved a woman, go figure) and > there just > hasn't been much motivation to actually write. > > Wow. That blew up? > Damn; sorry, guy. > > Well, the experience has taught me (the hard way) that she'd not > have been a good mate anyway. I could probably have handled just > about any of her "quirks" and the many poor choices she's made, > regarding me, herself, and others in her life, but the continuing > lying (yes, present tense) that she insists on pulling has proven > itself to just be part of her nature, and that is something I can't > deal with. Ruh roh. Yeah; good call. > She acts apologetic and offers an olive branch (classic > "let's just be friends") when she sees what this has done to me, > but to this day she maintains an "image" of the world that she'd > like me to see, and I know much of it to be false. For all her > intellect, she honestly doesn't seem to understand that she lives > in a world where other people she's mucked with aren't afraid to > talk to me about things she's done or said. Good. Glad you jumped early enough, though, perhaps, not as early as you'd have liked. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
