In response to my iTunes playlist post, a friend asked:

How do I keep two different libraries on the same computer? Hers and mine?!

It’s really not that hard, if the iPods are different models. For example, do you have a Nano and a Classic? If so, you can use the same library and the issue simply becomes synching only certain music to each device–your music to your iPod and her music to hers.

First, start playing The Outfield again. Then separate your music into two (or more) different playlists (or Smart Playlists). Then, in each iPod’s preferences pane in iTunes, select only the playlists you want synched to each device.

Done.

If you’re like me, you have a lot of music on your computer. I have more than 6,000 songs. You likely have even more than that. If so, you could literally spend days working on making a good iTunes playlist.

Or not: Here’s a quick way to make a good iTunes playlist that includes your favorites and excludes stuff you don’t even know you have–or why you have it.

Start by playing “Your Love,’ by the Outfield. I’m not sure of the reason, but it seems to help.

In your Music library, start rating the songs you like the most, the songs you listen to a lot. Do this by clicking on the song and then dragging the mouse from left to right under the “Rating” section to create a five-star rating.

Once you’ve got thirty or forty rated, select the “My Top Rated” smart playlist. This has automatically updated with your five-star songs.

Smart playlists are genius.

Done.

Now you can turn off the Outfield. If you must.

I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet or not. Probably so. The book Stuff White People Like is pretty funny. I saw it online first a few weeks ago, and then I saw it at Reagan airport this week. Anyway, this particular passage hits close to home for me, a white person. It doesn’t exactly fall under Stuff White People Like, instead it’s a White Problem.

White Problems - Typos on Menus

The presence of an improper apostrophe on a menu can ruin an otherwise delicious meal for a white person. Jane Black recommends asking for an extra copy of the menu, taking out a pen and marking all of the mistakes. When you are finished, you should then leave the restaurant with the hope that the chef will see the mistake and correct it before your next visit. This is considered the best solution since it allows you to use proper grammar while simultaneously avoiding confrontation (#128 in the book).

The other option is to simply recognize that the typos, while egregious, do not prevent actual meaningful communication on these menus. This would allow you to escape the tag of “elitist,” “pretentious,” or “banned from eating here for the rest of your life.”

Other Stuff White People Like includes comparing people to Hitler, statistics, and girls with bangs.

Yes.