The Wily Filipino

Catching Up.

I could write about the unexploded World War II mortar they found in Fort Funston this morning while we were walking the dog and the baby, or the Asian American Studies conference in Boston, or the deformed fetuses at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, or buying snacks at Zabar's, or hanging out with Happy and Clarissa in their Philly apartment, or the exceedingly comfortable beds at the Fairmont Copley Square Hotel, or playing in a playground in 40-degree weather on the Upper West Side, or the awesome Five Friends from Japan exhibit at the Children's Museum of Boston, or the tongue sandwich at Artie's, or the transplanted Chinese house in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, or drinking a pint of Magic Hat No. 9 again with Romeo at the Westside Brewing Company, or procrastinating about the papers I'm supposed to comment on for a conference at Berkeley in a few days, or procrastinating about grading student papers on heavy metal (I'm trying to get them to think about how "the mainstream" is politically constituted), or procrastinating about reading an ethnography we're discussing in a few days, but I won't.

No, what I'll be writing about is how I removed my BlogAmp script on the right column and changed it to an Audioscrobbler link instead. I just registered (there were bugs with the server for a long time, but they're fixed now), but it tracks what you're playing and how often you play it. Unfortunately I won't get any recommendations or whatnot until I've submitted 250 songs or so -- but that shouldn't be difficult because I often have music playing anyway. The best part is that it works with the best players out there (QCD, Winamp, iTunes). Now loading up my blog page will take a little less time, and the two jpgs there will probably stay until the end of 2004...