doctor fill

I set up emacs to run with the sml/nj for one of my classes, and it turns out for my sanity that emacs comes with this artificial intelligence psychotherapist named doctor fill. it's pretty funny -- here's some things it says

F: Maybe your life have something to do with this.
F: What makes you believe your life has nothing to do with this?
F: Can you elaborate on that?
F: Is it because of the people you hang around with that you are going through all this?
F: I would appreciate it if you would continue.
F: Go on, don't be afraid.
F: Is it because of problems at school that you say you say arghh?
F: My secretary will send you a bill.
F: Bye bye.

It's pretty funny, it just keeps asking you to explain your reasoning, which is pretty good if you're being irrational in the first place. If you want a pretty good personal psychotherapist you can download it here (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/)
get the bin, the barebin download you have to download the sources also so just get the bin. you can use the sml-mode if you create a site-start.el file in the emacs/site-start/ directory.. follow the instructions here http://www.smlnj.org/software.html.

also very newest version (23.1, 07/30/09) has M-x butterfly ... "Do you really want to unleash the powers of the butterfly? (yes or no)"

record last.fm radio with foobar

I found a weird applciation of some foobar components that allows you to record last.fm radio.

I posted about foo_lastfm_radio earlier, the component let's you not just stream, but sample from a playlist of like 4-8 songs on average. interestingly you can also copy this stream using the foo_converter component. the converter tool automatically comes with foobar. just select any number of songs in the playlist, and then use the converter utility to download the songs.



unfortunately, this method generates transcodes, because of the converter utility, but if you don't care very much about the quality, then this method works pretty well. unfortunently, you cannot use foo_fileops to 'copy' the file from the last.fm radio but there might be a way to copy the radio stream without transcoding it.