In between the on-call bollocks, I spend my weekend learning the Final Vinyl interface (which sucks) and dropping the recordings into Sound Studio (which doesn’t suck) for normalization, trimming and export to iTunes for MP3 encoding and meta-data mark-up. I started doing this 3 years ago back in Baltimore and kind of dropped off for […]
A nice little time-waster: Speak n Spell Emulator. The challenge (recall) is not determine how to spell something but trying to comprehend the electronic lisp that is the Speak n Spell’s voice.
Infinite Jest kabbala. It’s the only possible explanation.
I thought I had all this broken computer nonsense sorted out before my vacation. The PCI cards were re-seated and working, I’d nabbed a new power supply to swap into the system, and the PC was nice and stable (w/ a few esoteric exceptions). Funny how it all unravels so damn quickly. Exchanged the power […]
Passing thought: Safari and/or Firefox plug-in/extention for Google searching that toggles whether/not to cross-reference search results against your history. Oh &emdash; and add configurable thresholds to that.
Refreshing. And yet somehow not surprising. A little something for your amusement. A ‘nix-based system hasn’t been this small since the 12″ iBook was released. << hyperbole!? Sucks to be NASA right now. Ouch. But whose idea was it to pluck the capsule out of mid-air with a helicopter? Dare I invoke flame but this […]
(via Boing Boing) A handy flowchart to determine whether/not it’s ethical to rip that tune! Ask yourself time-honored questions like: “Does the artist prefer you not to hear their unreleased material?” and “Does the label which currently owns the song have a history of swindling its artists?” or “Is this an indie label which could […]
As we wound down our vacation, we made a brief jaunt over to visit my ‘rents (but a 30 minute drive from our vacation spot). We had stopped in on our way in to visit with them and see my dad’s Madagascar pics but they wanted us to swing by for an exeunt lunch as […]
As is the tradition, I take a friend’s idea and follow up on it. Giving you… Top 5 novels/stories that I would like to adapt for film: Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson “Angel” – Pat Cadigan Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace 1 “Hinterlands” – William Gibson Grendel – John Gardner Top 5 books I […]
Back from Vacationland, well rested… First “real” vacation that A & I have taken together. (See below for highlight reel.) Bed and Breakfast action is where it’s at (unless you’re doing the full-blown seaside cottage rental thing) — esp. since you’re still close enough to everything to just up and walk there. Ahhh……… currently listening: […]