2 posts tagged “beirut”
This morning I finally updated the production site with the new code that I've been working for the past month. As a result, the Trizzle Project now sports some new features, including:
- You can now review, rate and tag artists and albums as well as songs.
- Trizzle search has been enhanced--it's now faster, thanks to the mysql 5 view, and will handle multi-word search strings better–ie, if you search for "zep dog" Trizzle will now return Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog" whereas before it would not.
- The recent reviews page now shows recent reivews of songs, artists and albums.
- Feeds! You're probably sick of hearing about them by now, but in case you're not, there is now a feed of the most recent reviews to be entered into Trizzle.
Now that the site has been upgraded, I felt it was time to put some more compelling content on it. This evening I finally added more featured songs to Trizzle, after many months of their being absent. Since there was such a long hiatus, I added more than usual, fifteen in all, including new songs by the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, the Kings of Leon, Of Montrel, Beirut and more.
Not only that, but every featured song has a high-quality un-DRMed mp3 so you can listen to the whole song (no 30 second samples on Trizzle!) and even add it to your media player of choice (but i f you do and you like the song enough to listen to it more than few times, please do buy a copy of the song from the ITMS or better yet the entire album.)
Click the link below to see what's featured on Trizzle this month:
My half-brother, Andy Hall, has started a new blog, Daily Life at Leland Stanford, Jr. University, which covers, as he puts it:
My life at Stanford. My interests, such as the Red Sox, the UConn Huskies, and competitive Beirut. Criticisms of many people, places, and things. Food. Movies. Sports. Matters of import to me and possibly others.
Unfortunately on blogspot, not Vox, since he wants to harvest endless AdSense revenue. I haven't had the heart to tell him yet that even blogs with hundreds of thousands of readers don't really make much money from Google ads, which is why many of them are switching to Federated Media.
In any case, he's posted two entries today which may be helpful to the Vox community. The first is a list of the top five places on Stanford campus to play Beirut. If you don't know what Beirut is, or think it's a war-torn city in Lebanon, please consult the wikipedia entry--in fact, even if you do know that Beirut is a drinking game also refered to as "beer pong" read the entry because it's a hoot, including a section on etiquette that would make Emily Post proud:
All participants involved in the first game of the session should help in setting up the table; splitting duties for cup arrangement, water cup filling, and beverage pouring. Correspondingly, the group playing the last game of the session should clean up the table, throw away cups, etc.
The second entry is the inevitable and necesary corollorary to the first, the five worst places, including one hapless fraternity whose shortcomings include:
The tables are about the length of a football field. No one has an advantage because the cups are well outside anyone's good aiming range. As a result games in Kappa Sig take at least twice as long as games on a normal table. Of course, most people don't seem to notice because games rarely seem to get finished. Disappearances, guest shots, and flying debris often compromise the quality of the contest.
