The lesser mabinogion

A work colleague told me an interesting analogy he had read recently. I can’t remember what exactly it was about – but it might have been making a movie, or similar.
The analogy was that the particular endeavour in question was like getting the whole team together and jumping out of a plane at the same time, and making the parachutes on the way down.
I think it’s particularly apt for Con running though – most other projects you can always just let the date slip. But when you’ve had the date printed, emailed, broadcast and blogged for over a year, it definitely starts rushing towards you as solid and unmovable as the ground.
Fortunately, I think that in the case of Conflux the parachutes are pretty much done now, and barring a few minor details, and the usual last minute panics, we can mostly enjoy the float to the bottom from here :)

Having spent some time today organising my music collection – ripping CDs I’d recently bought and re-ripping those that I’m sure I used to have on my computer but somehow got lost around the way, I now have the following completely useless stats for you –

I have 231 CDs (counting 2 Disc albums as 2), consisting of 2346 tracks, for a total playing time of 8 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes and 49 seconds.
The top 10 Artists in my collection based on number of tracks are:

1. Pink Floyd – 175 (15:05:58 playing time)
2. Queensryche – 160 (12:08:38)
3. Iron Maiden – 142 (12:33:17)
4. Megadeth – 126 (8:57:41)
5. Metallica – 96 (9:44:36)
6. Tori Amos – 79 (5:58:54)
7. Iced Earth – 77 (6:35:56)
8. Kate Bush – 75 (5:10:48)
9. Dream Theater – 75 (9:22:26)
10. Fates Warning – 67 (6:30:30)

Yes, I have more than 15 hours of Pink Floyd on CD.

It would be interesting to see the top 10 by time – as you can see by comparing Dream Theater and Kate Bush that the average track time varies quite considerably from band to band. I’m pretty sure Genesis and The Alan Parsons Project would make the top 10 if time alone were considered.

I had some other stuff to say, but I’ve just spent the last hour discovering the hard way how utterly deficient OpenOffice.org is at doing anything relating to the importing and handling of data (whether it be in Calc or Base) and I’m now too annoyed to have the motivation.