Liberate Te Ex Inferis

My wife and I decided to change it up a little this morning and go to the 2nd hour service at church. Normally during that hour, we are in Bible Fellowship (Sunday School) class, but today we wanted to try something different.

So we go into service and they have this guest singer that is some famous southern gospel artist who has traveled with some well-known people. I didn’t recognize his name. And regardless of what you see in the movies, we are not all hicks down here. Just because I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, doesn’t necessarily mean that I love Southern Gospel or even Country music. There was a time when I liked Country quite a lot, but I rarely listen to it now. And I cannot remember ever really liking Southern Gospel music.

So we sat through a few songs, which turned out to be relatively painless afterall, and onto the message. Thank goodness. I know that some people like the worship music and the singing before the service, but frankly to me it seems like all fluff. Just get on with it, for crying out loud. I came to here the Word of God preached, not to hear 400 year old hymns and music that makes me think I turned 85 yesterday and forgot my own birthday because I am so old. Now, I don’t think there is anything wrong with this type of music or worship style, it simply isn’t for me. If it works for you, then great. But give me some loud rock-n-roll worship music and see how many more lost people you will reach because they don’t wanna listen to the tired Baptist Hymnal songs, no matter how many times you re-write them over and over again.

Anyway, the service was great and the message was good. I just wish we had something that was more up-to-date from the music standpoint.

The Purpose

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Me: Excuse me Mr. Man, Mr. “I’m so cool that I put my hardware in clear cases for all to see because, afterall, that is how God made us, is it not? Naked?”

iTunes: Yo dude, wassup, what can I do fer ya?

Me: Well, I wanna backup my GACing playlist so that if my HDD crashes I don’t have to re-rip all my CDs. But when I try to do the backup in your software, it says :insert disk”

iTunes: Yeah, dude…for sure. You have to like…insert a disk and stuff….to burn. A “burn” disc, you know what I mean?

Me: Well, yeah, thats all well and good, but what about backing up to a network drive? Like on a super Uber Linux 1TB file server running Suse or Ubuntu, how do I get your software to do that?

iTunes: uhhh…is this your first day on the job? You see, they have these things now called writable CDs, which you can write or “burn” information to. You don’t need a network to work them. All you need is a CD burner.

Me: Wow. ok, maybe I was speaking Chinese with my question before. I don’t give a rip about your 1998 CD burning technology, I want to know if it is possible to backup my iTunes to a network drive so I don’t have to go out and buy a cd-r disc every time I wanna make a new backup.

iTunes: Well…you have to have network permissions to create a share and then make a …..

Me: Look….I am not asking for a lesson in your whacked-out AppleTalk version of networking terminology. All I wanna know is IF you can use your asshat Mac-crap software to backup all my music files to a network share, rather than a CD. Is this possible??

iTunes: Sure, you can do that, but why don’t you take a trip down to CompUSA and get in on their special CD-R deals they have this week? Then you could take them anywhere you wish and use them on other computers.

Me: Thanks for the advice, I have had a few drinks tonight, so I may simply not remember asking for your opinion on CD-R’s but the simple fact is that even if I did ask, I don’t really care. What I really need to know is where I can set a network share option in your software.

iTunes: Have you checked the Preferences?

Me: Yes, not there.

iTunes: So what exactly do you need?

Me: Ok, hi, my name is Jason. I want to know if you can backup a iTunes Library to a network share. You know the option under File–>Back Up To Disc–> Back Up Entire Library ? When I choose this, it tells me to insert a disc and doesn’t give me anymore options. I want to know where I can change this option, to backup to another source, rather than a “disc”?

iTunes: So wait, let me get this straight….you don’t want to burn to a CD??

Me: Praise the Lord, he has SEEN the light!!

iTunes: But why would you not wanna burn to a CD, it provides…

Me: Look, yes or no. Can you backup your iTunes library to a network drive? Yes or No??

iTunes: Um…well. We really didn’t anticipate our users having multiple computers or a home network or anything like that…

Me: Ok, so what you are telling me is that with you have spent the bulk of your profits on advertising and stupid TV commercials, trying to make the public think that you are so hip and cool, but you don’t have a simple knowledge of networking 2 or more machines together?

iTunes: Well, our machines are so reliable, we never saw the need for more than 1 per user.

Me: And how would you expect a family, perhaps a husband and wife, who each have a Macincrash computer, to be able to share files?

iTunes: Share? What exactly do you mean….

Me: You know what….You have answered my question. Thanks for the cool-looking machines that have Unix based OS’s (since your own OS sucks ) that cannot be connected to one another. No wonder you’re company products were never picked up by businesses needing file sharing.

iTunes: Still, a CD-R will more than meet your needs…

Me:….SMACK!

Rants

Yes, I admit…I am a child of the ’80s.  I remember very well in the 5th and 6th grade when the Transformers was the hottest cartoon on TV and that was all the guys my age talked about.   So when the movie was announced a few months ago, I was totally stoked.

We went to see this movie tonight, several of my friends and myself from work and WOW!!  This was a REALLY GREAT movie.  Storyline was awesome, special effects totally rocked and the action kept you glued to your seat fo the whole 2 hours and 20 minutes.

If you liked the Transformers cartoon, go see this movie.  If you like action flics, go see this movie.  If you like good CGI flics with great comic relief, go see this movie.  In short…. go see this movie.  I  can’t wait to see it again.

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