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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/806111
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I’m unhappy at how hard it’s become for me to tell the difference between Weird Al and Weird AI. When I was a kid it was easy because it was always Weird Al. Now every time I see either I have to take a second, closer look to convince myself I got it right, and sometimes even then I get it wrong. And I resent that.
based AF weird al
Petition to make VPN officially an acronym for “very probably no/not/nobody/nothing”.
Also, “programmer” humor? 🙄
It’s clearly code!
The guy is a treasure
I installed an optical drive in my computer recently, and I was playing with my old CDs, and found that Poodle Hat has a data partition, or whatever the hell you call them on CDs. On which is a 6 minute .mov file that takes up about an 8th of the disc’s space, in which Al thanks the owner of the disc for buying the album “instead of downloading it like some HOOLIGAN!” And then proceeds to joke over some of his own home movies.
One of the Foo Fighter CDs (I think There Is Nothing Left to Lose in '99) had a clipped version of this video on it. (*NSFW Language)
It’s kind of funny looking back on albums like that, and the bonus content they would add. It was common early on to write the ToC in such a way that it skipped over a track, so Track 1 would be some ways into the disc, but there was data before “track 1” you could get to by rewinding past 0:00. Later, smarter CD players and especially computer CD-ROM drives wouldn’t do that, so that practice started decreasing. But with computers, it was already commonplace for a video game to take up a small fraction of a CD, and then fill the rest with the soundtrack as red book audio, and CD players could still play the music. So they did that for awhile.
There was a brief moment in the mid-2000s where the record labels were feeling the threat of iTunes, so they tried adding value. I have a 2005 copy of Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet which doesn’t have the Compact Disc Digital Audio mark anywhere on it, because it’s a DualDisc. It’s a CD with half a DVD on its back; so it’s slightly thicker than a standard CD and thus non-conforming to the red book standard, and . The CD side is an otherwise conforming red book audio copy of the album, but the DVD side features a very high quality stereo recording, a “made 20 years after the album was mastered so it’s slightly janky” Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound version with added length, and the four music videos they recorded for the album in glorious “80’s BetaCAM transferred to DVD” 480whatever.
Remember when companies tried to compete on benefits and features?
Data track/session is the term
If it was done in the way where the data track didn’t show up for an audio player, it was probably an Enhanced CD/CD plus. If anyone is backing up old CDs it’s worth checking for this kind of stuff and saving it too. Given most people only ever rip the audio, loads of that stuff is going to end up as lost media before long
weird al is a national treasure. it’s insane that in his decades-long career, no one has come remotely close to matching him
The peak of a music career isn’t a Grammy, it’s getting parodied by Weird Al Yankovic
it’s insane that in his decades-long career, no one has come remotely close to matching him
There are surely plenty of other people out there who have similar humor & talent & charisma & intelligence & musical panache and are able to put it all together in brilliant art, but you know how the musical industry is rigged, weird Al slipped in during the late 1970’s at a fortuitous time before the music industry became rigged & proprietary. He is indeed a national treasure.
There are billions of people all over the planet. Everyone has talents that most people will never see on a large scale via the media. Because the media is rigged & gatekeeper’ed these days.
I for one used to inadvertently entertain my family as I went about the household chores by singing well-known tunes but substituting the words for what’s going on in our daily lives and we all found it hilarious. That was kinda weird al-esque, he’s so relatable, we all have our quirks & sense of humor and he taps into something that we can all relate to.
I just looked him up and he is, in fact, USian. I thought he was Canadian for some reason.
Weird Al and Dolly Parton must be protected at all costs.
I think you might be thinking of bellowed Nardwuar the Human Serviette, recent winner of the Order of Canada. Same friendly vibes.
He does feel super canadian.
No one dares…
i am amazed that there are people who still don’t know how to torrent
i listen to kill james bond and they were watching “topkapi” on pirate streaming sites??? why??? you can get a 1080 rip at any time
and i remember nova saying something about torrenting before as well
so frustratingYeah, I agree with Weird Al, you USE the NET to find a legal way but we’ll just have to wait for Roku.
I did not know this. I guess I do now.
