{"id":1564,"date":"2009-03-02T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2009-03-02T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:38:54","slug":"alphabetically-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/alphabetically-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabetically Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with anything, I just thought I would mention that I have been listening to my entire iTunes library again so I could re-rate everything and fix up some playlists from scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 This is necessary sometimes, but especially when you move from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/mac-nerdery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows to Mac<\/a> since the library formats are completely different for some god-forsaken reason.\u00c2\u00a0 The only unusual thing about it all this time was I decided to listen to all 4200 songs (give or take, I try to get rid of all of the Jonas Brothers\/Hilary Duff\/bland unrecognizable hip hop artist of the week that ends up in there from Jordy, but it&#8217;s a constant battle&#8230;) in alphabetical order by song title.\u00c2\u00a0 This means you get a rather, um, varied musical experience from one song to the next.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing that came to light today is that Loverboy&#8217;s <strong>Take Me to The Top<\/strong> (hm, one star, thank you) was followed immediately by Bob and Doug McKenzie&#8217;s <strong>Take Off<\/strong> (that&#8217;s about 4 stars, folks, based entirely on Geddy Lee&#8217;s fine performance).\u00c2\u00a0 It made me wonder how many alphabetically consecutive Canadian songs have I missed to date from A-T?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not (quite) anal enough to actually find out myself, but it&#8217;s your homework for the week to find out the longest run of consecutively Canadian songs you can find in your iTunes library.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all class, dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with anything, I just thought I would mention that I have been listening to my entire iTunes library again so I could re-rate everything and fix up some playlists from scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 This is necessary sometimes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/alphabetically-canadian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[77,78,26],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-tech","tag-alphabet","tag-canadian","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}