Who Too?

If you know who Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite are, then you will probably be pretty psyched about this!

11/11

"I was a soldier, but never a warrior. God bless those who were and are, for in this land of the free and home of the brave, they are truly the bravest of them all".

-Tobin, William J. 1st Lt., US Army Infantry

President Obama

Today I am proud to be an American. The proudest I have ever been.

Summer...

... has officially left the building.

NSLogOnce

Here's my new feature request:

NSLogOnce(@"Blah Blah Blah");

When you just want to see something announced one time! Wouldnt this make the world a better place?

Xcode : CodeSign Error ?!?

Tried to build my app, saw this:

CodeSign error: no certificate found in keychain for code signing identity 'iPhone Developer'

WTF?

Turns out when your iPhone (or iTouch) is plugged in, Xcode looks for your Apple Developer Certificate...

Unplug your iPhone. Restart Xcode. All is well.

For Better or Worse

If you are better than me at everything, then I am better than you at being worse.

Objective-C . WTF? (Part II)

Who decided that this...

NSLog(@"Where is %@ hiding?", myVariable);

...was better than this?

NSLog("Where is $myVariable hiding?");


(NOTE: Hey! Dont complain about wanting a dollar sign in your string! Use a back slash! And dont tell me there isnt a better workaround for that first @ symbol...)

Objective-C . WTF? (Part I)

Who decided that this...

[myRectangle setOriginX: 30.0 y: 50.0];

...was better than this?

[myRectangle setOrigin: x:30.0, y:50.0]

... or this?

[myRectangle setOrigin(30.0, 50.0) ]

Quote

With the silliest pride I will tell you that I said this earlier tonight to my daughter:

"Do you want to wear your pretty princess cupcake pajamas? Or your pretty pink flowers princess pajamas?"

And yes, I used my high-octave-talking-softly-to-my-daughter voice.

Proposition for Constitutional Amendment XXVIII

The office of the president or vice-president may not be held by any man or woman who has ever participated in a beauty pageant.

The voters shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate behavior in November.

Xcode . Undo

Does Xcode ask you if you are totally, completely, and entirely sure that you want to undo the changes that you so wisely saved? Do you want Xcode to stop? Do this:

01) Open Terminal
02) Paste the Following:
defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCShowUndoPastSaveWarning NO
03) Quit Xcode (and Terminal!)
04) Open Xcode

Rock on!

Brace Yourself

Your faith in humanity might be called into question by the contents of this video. There is nothing I can say to prepare you for what you are about to see, if you dare to click here.

Delete x 2

I just opened up my email and was overwhelmed by the spam and junk. I spent five minutes just shredding and deleting email after email... thinking wtf?!?... then realized that last night, after looking in my trash folder for something, I didnt switch back to my inbox. So I just spent five minutes deleting the emails I had deleted last night. And I'm an expert.

Morrissey + NFL = Dear God Why?!?

I love Football.
I love Morrissey.

I despise this.

Headph.

The left audio on my supernice sennheiser headphones is gone. Fekk. Fekk fekk fekk fekk fekk fekk fekk.

Sniglets

Paytience:
Delaying the delivery of your money into the jar so that the cashier sees your tip.

Knowtice:
The art of pretending you dont notice someone is looking at you.

Vox?

Would it be wierd if aphex twin or autechre sang on their next album? I was weirded out when neotropic did that...

Redorangeyellowbluewhitegrey

I respect fire.

Be Your Own Pet

They broke up. I am now v curious about what the relationship was between Be Your Own Pet and Paramore... they're both from the Volunteer state. Who was first?

The Real Thing

I drink more Cokes by 9AM than most people do all day.

Tweet Tweet

Not exactly sure why, but I just set up a Twitter account here.

50K

I am humbled to announce that today I reached the 50,000 download milestone. The internet is an amazing thing.

Lawsuit!

I was just informed by a friend that my name is on the IMDB as a composer for Friendly Fire, a documentary film score I did a couple years ago.

They list me as Brian Tobin instead of Brian WF Tobin... they left out my WF! I am going to sue the pants off of those jackanapes!

Nightime

I love being awake at night. Everything is so quiet, there are no distractions, and I am free.

Bon Jour

17 Cures For Migraine is now available on Amie Street, another combination of musical democracy and capitalism.

2K+

There have been over 2300 downloads so far. Very exciting to think about all those people having their minds sculpted by my subliminal messages listening to my music.

Update: 4K+
Update: 7K

Musical Democracy

Nerdhappy is now on thesixtyone.com, a cool site where you can listen to and vote for new music.

!first.!am

17 Cures For Migraine is now on last.fm, and for all you "pirates" out there: mininova.

SFSG

So far so good! Lotsa downloads! Setting up SNOCAP and MININOVA tonight... oh, and I set up TUNECORE the other day, but the wait time for iTunes is at least a month!

PS+ Snocap's upload script looks nice but is causing fits on safari. "A script is making Safari unresponsive. Do you want to continue running the script, or stop it?" I keep hitting continue and the uploads roll on...

3, 2, 1...

I launch today. I stayed up all night working on the database stuff (PHP/MySQL), and I think I added in about 35 more if/then's than I thought I'd need. I think I'll be able to track the numbers regarding the "Pay What You Want" model, and hopefully the whole thing will operate smoothly.

5 Digit Mixing/Mastering Tools

I listened to the Final Mix in three different cars. 2005 Honda Odyssey, 2005 Ford Focus, 2005 Kia Spectra. I was amazed at how different things sounded in each one. Certain sounds (like snares) would be 10x louder in one car, but in the next the bass would be overpowering. I took copious notes, tweaked each song, then went back to listen again.

I did this about 10x. My lady told me I'd never be finished and there'd always be something else to fix.

She was right. I listened to a song by Interpol in the Honda, and I could barely hear the vocals, which sounded normal on iTunes. After that, I felt better about the inconsistency. This music wasnt made for car stereos anyway! These songs (on headphones preferably!) are more of a background for PHP/MySQL programming, painting, or playing chess.