Archive for January, 2010

Trolle//Siebenhaar – Couple Therapy

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

A lot of the online reviews I’ve seen have made a comparison to ladies like Adele and Amy Winehouse. The comparison seems apt. The vocalist has a strong voice that imparts lush emotional response to the songs. The music behind her is nice and down tempo jazz, with a strong groovin feel.

Foals – Antidotes

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Cafepress reborn

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Reading up on all the recent foot-in-mouth-ism that Rush has, I wondered why I hadn’t seen any new sales at cafepress since february.  Looking over the site, I noticed that 3 of my images, images that were printed onto shirts just fine for the last 10 years, are suddenly marked in red, with no explanation.  I reuploaded them, and since cafepress has so many more products now, went thru all the stores, filling in the missing products.  Still need to make a dark-shirt compatible set of images, now that they offer printing on those colors too.

Jesus died for my sins and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!

Disney pushed the lemmings

Will kill Rush Limbaugh for food

Coffee without caffeine is like sex without leather

Guns don’t kill people.  Bullets do.  Guns just get the bullets going really fast.

I Need A Sharper Stick

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Got a couple strange problems at work that just keep refusing to yield to my usual methods of debugging.  I think I’ll see if I can’t find a sharper stick to poke them with.    Perhaps go for parallelism, use a pitch-fork.  It’s definitely not a job for a spoon smacking, that much is certain.  I’ve tried all the usual boiling-in-oil and stretching-on-the-rack already.

10 bytes of flute

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I’m working with a friend on a couple of tracks for a song he’s written.  On one take, I got a half-decent flute-line down, but I want to make another attempt, so I mixed down a track to practice with that doesn’t contain my flute.  It ended up all of 10 bytes smaller than the track with me in it.

Weird how much compression works.

Clearly Incompentent Marketing

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

CLEAR (presumably the former clearwire), is running a direct mail campaign with envelopes that state on the outside “This is not junk mail”.  I’m not clear I understand the message they intend to send with this mailing. Is it that Clear is run by  people who would lie to you?  How exactly is that a selling point?  I’m not saying it’s a surprise, I’m just surprised at how much money they’re spending on telling people that they are willing to be dishonest to get your business, with all that implies as to how they would treat you after you are a customer.

“Trust me, I’m a liar”, just isn’t the killer opening line you think it is.

No More Warcraft

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Oh Blizzard.

It’s not enough to make millions off the masses of weed smoking college students wasting away their education, no you have to help track down low level pot dealers who’ve fled to Canada.  I’m willing to let you do most anything you want with my $45/month, but not that.

I’ve got plenty of books to catch up on reading anyways.

Dreamhost Rocks

Monday, January 4th, 2010

They pointed out I could save $9.00 a month by switching to a plan that was the same as my current plan, except for something I’d never used in the entire decade I’ve been with them, and likely never will.  Call me a happy camper; well, webhosting-wise =p

New Music in the New Year

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Spent the afternoon working on a couple of tracks with Brad.  My parts still need some work, no surprise considering it’s the first time I’ve heard the vocals to go with the guitar, but all in all a good session of laying down the bits.