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Comment on How to Get Pandora to Play Exactly What You Want & Nothing You Don’t by kp

kp — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:21:35 +0000

It’s playing a lot more Weird Al after my account became unlocked.

Comment on How to Get Pandora to Play Exactly What You Want & Nothing You Don’t by kp

kp — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:01:24 +0000

FYI, found this interesting, had been doing an experiment myself and referenced this. What I found:

So I’ve been giving this some thought, largely because I’d like a Weird Al station to play Weird Al and nothing else.

At first I started using Pandora the way it was ‘meant’ to be used, I suppose, and was ‘liking’ parody songs to increase the likelihood of Weird Al actually playing. This was incredibly unsuccessful and I ended up getting all this stand up comedy in the car which I really don’t feel like blasting at 100+dB while commuting. (The whole purpose of the Weird Al station, to make commuting fun amirite?)

Then I read the attached article and things got interesting. Through the web site you can do a lot of tweaking to a station including removing the previous +s and -s you’ve logged. I removed all of the +s and left only -s and the results at this point were actually quite baffling. The station would no longer play Weird Al whatsoever.

So I decided to take it a step further and sat on my Roku box thumbs-downing everything on the Weird Al station that was not playing any Weird Al anyway, toggling between stations leaving the other one alone.

Now my account is locked, which I sort of saw coming. I’m curious at this point as to whether I was shut off manually or automatically, however. I have noticed that with my Pandora One account I can have seemingly infinite devices streaming different stuff at the same time and they don’t seem to give a shit about but when you start skipping a lot just to tweak a station because of their limited feature set, they get mad. Heh.

Comment on How to Get Pandora to Play Exactly What You Want & Nothing You Don’t by Liem

Liem — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:38:43 +0000

I think it worked

Comment on 2012 // The Year of TCB by Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:53:29 +0000

Insipirational!!

Comment on How to Quit Drinking Soda by Blaine Shranka

Blaine Shranka — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:48:45 +0000

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Comment on Taking Chances by Meg

Meg — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:56:34 +0000

Just found your blog and I love, love, love the layout. One of the coolest I have seen!

Comment on How to Quit Drinking Soda by Meg

Meg — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0000

I am absolutely positive that if I could stand soda, I would be totally addicted to it. People always tell me I am “so good” for not drinking soda which makes me feel like a total fraud because 1) I have many other bad habits to make up for my lack of soda drinking and 2) it is no merit on my part. I have just always disliked any and all carbonated beverages.

Comment on Taking Chances by Emily

Emily — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:00:14 +0000

Thanks Rachel! I’m super stoked, too. But nervous as all hell.

Comment on Taking Chances by Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:44:35 +0000

Emily! I’m so excited for you and your husband. That is AMAZING!!!

Comment on How to Quit Drinking Soda by Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:22:03 +0000

i really need to quit i drink like 5 cans a day and i work at taco bell so free mtn dew baja blast in large cups… to tempting, but i hate tea and thing like the vitamin water zero which makes it hard to quit, this sucks