IRC Sux

[miko2]

This is the track listing for my animal mix cd that I did for Conifur 2003. There's too many songs that I didn't use, so I might have to make another one soon.

Conifur 2003 Animal Mix

1. Mammal -- They Might Be Giants
2. Concrete Animals -- Shonen Knife
3. Year of the Cat -- Al Stewart
4. Nellie the Elephant -- Toy Dolls
5. And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps -- Jethro Tull
6. Three Legged Dog -- Lost Dogs
7. Catnip Dream -- Shonen Knife
8. Bye Bye Blackbird -- Josephine Baker
9. Facts About Cats -- Timbuk 3
10. Horse With No Name -- America
11. Jackalope -- Shonen Knife
12. Know Your Chicken -- Cibo Matto
13. Heavy Horses -- Jethro Tull
14. Hungry Like The Wolf -- Duran Duran
15. The Fox -- Steeleye Span
16. Bear Up Bison -- Shonen Knife
17. Stray Cat Strut -- Stray Cats
18. When Cats Take Over the World -- Jamie Anderson
19. I Wanna Be Like You -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
20. Trust In Me -- Siouxsie & the Banshees
21. Dolly -- Shonen Knife

Since apparently I gave away the two copies of two mixes that I made for myself, here are the track listings for them:

Conifur 2003 Mix A (Weird Miko Mix)

1. I want to sing that rock 'n' roll -- Gillian Welch
2. Mr. Pinstripe Suit -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
3. Antipop -- Primus
4. Breezin' along with the breeze -- Josephine Baker
5. Leaving on a Jet Plane -- Me First and the Gimme Gimme's
6. Footprints In the Snow -- Bill Monroe
7. Whatever I can Grow -- Pure Joy
8. Mother's Children Have a Hard Time -- Blind Willie Johnson
9. Real Boss Hoss -- The Sonics
10. Atlanta Bound -- Gene Autry
11. Rubber Band -- Shonen Knife
12. Pretend That We're Dead -- L7
13. Rock 'n' Roll Music -- The Red Elvises
14. Rusty Cage -- Johnny Cash
15. That Nasty Swing -- Blue Mountain
16. Rali-O -- Baka Beyond
17. There's Something Wrong with You -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
18. How Can I Sing Like A Girl? -- They Might Be Giants
19. Take It Off -- The Donnas
20. Pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway! -- Elise Carslile
21. Across the Border -- The Alarm
22. Shot of Love -- King's X
23. Over Now -- Alice In Chains

Conifur 2003 Mix B (Weird Miko Mix)

1. Touch of Gray -- Grateful Dead
2. It Don't Mean A Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing -- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
3. Greasebox -- Tad
4. Gloomy Sunday --Billie Holiday
5. Srebrenica -- The Ukranians
6. Are You Making Any Money? -- Chick Bullock and his Levee Loungers
7. My Own Zero -- Zap Mama
8. Devil Got My Woman -- Skip James
9. I'm a Bear in a Lady's Bouidoir -- Cliff Edwards
10. Seven Nation Army -- The White Stripes
11. Brother Can You Spare A Dime? -- Rudy Vallee
12. Ah Ah Ah -- Shonen Knife
13. Rocky Road to Dublin -- Young Dubliners
14. Rocky Top -- The Osbourne Brothers
15. Dying to Make A Living -- Foddershock
16. Apathy -- The Tea Party
17. Oi Dai -- Varttina
18. Miss It All -- Blood Oranges
19. Flows Like A River -- Eleven
20. Preaching the End of the World -- Chris Cornell

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And now for a little rant.

I picked up a manga today called Pretty Face. I got volumes 1-3 and 5 (they didn't have #4). While I was at it I got #26 of Ah My Goddess (these are all Japanese volumes) and also got an anime dvd (English): Spirit of Wonder. This isn't the original one, but newer stories... maybe the ones that Sky has?

So anyway, I heard about this manga I got on a message board where kids were talking about "scanlations" or fan-produced translated manga scans... not just text translations but complete with the English (or whatever new language) words placed in the word balloons in scanned pages of the manga.

So I went looking... I found text English translations for most of volume 1. Then I found image scans for most of volumes 2-4. But it seems that these things are hard to find placed on the web where you can just download them... the preferred method is to exchange them over IRC. In fact many people seem to look down on anyone who doesn't do it this way or want to do it this way. It's kind of a geek club thing I guess... if you're not smart enough to get on IRC and download them that way, then you're not worth our time. Of course, hosting on a server is also expensive or lots more people would do that.

So I install IRC and the SysReset program that allows you to exchange files. It seems simple enough. It takes me a little bit to get the hang of things, but I find the right channel and figure out how to open an fserve window to download things. It's hard to find the right person who has what you want... and some things are hidden in layered directories... but I'm figuring most of it out.

The only problem is, everyone has their fserver or whatever set to kick you off after 3 minutes or 10 minutes at most or when you haven't typed anything in the last 30 seconds. You connect, find a file you want, try to download it, are told you're in a que, and then two minutes later your time is up and you're kicked off. I've been screwing around with this for several hours and I have yet to even START to download a file.

What a joke. If I wanted to waste my time I'd play Toontown or something.

*edit* Hmmm... Suddenly I'm getting the file I was trying to download. I guess I didn't have to keep my session open to remain on the download list. Okay, this makes a little more sense. ^_^