Aquarionics

A few hours before Jonathan Coulton performed his very first gig in the UK ever (And the first outside the states, I believe), he bought a Tenori-on which is apparently only available over here.

This means we ended up being the first people to ever see him perform playing with a new geeky toy. It looked very much like this:

I also, briefly, met Rory Parle.

We also ended up with covers of The Saturday Boy and “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?” The latter of which doesn’t appear to have made it to YouTube yet. Most of the rest of the concert did, though

If you use a mac, and iTunes, you’ll know about the little arrow links on the currently playing track that take you to the iTunes store search for that artist/track.

I’ve never used these, and I don’t like them. But now I know about this:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

This makes all the little arrows search your internal library instead. So clicking the arrow beside “Hello City” takes me to the album, and clicking “Barenaked Ladies” takes me to my entire collection of canadian bands with a double-bass in them.

Incidentally, in Windows, you can do this:

• Close iTunes
• Go to the run dialog (Windows+r)
• Enter %appdata%
• Open “Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml” in some kind of text editor
• Search for the string “<key>User Preferences</key>“
• Under that is the tag “Dict”, and directly under that you should paste this:
  <key>invertStoreLinks</key>
<data>
dHJ1ZQ==
</data>
• Save, Exit, Reopen iTunes
• Profit

This is a video of a neurologist talking about self-analysis while she had a stroke:

I enjoyed the self-realisation more than the slightly moralistic ending, but it’s pretty cool none the less