Keep the Joint Running Podcast
Allow me to take a break from our regularly scheduled blogging to present the “Keep the Joint Running Podcast” from Bob Lewis of IS Survivor Publishing with yours truly. It is available by searching the iTunes store or directly via RSS with this link: [Podcast No Longer Available] We’ve been working on this cast now for several months, and–quite frankly–I’m pleased with the results. It appears weekly and basically covers the same text as Bob’s weekly column of the same name. So tell all of your friends. They simply cannot survive a moment longer without listening to this podcast! Seriously, give it a shot–the subjects are concise, topical, and helpful. If you are in Information Technology at all, I...
Announcing Nolan 03/27/2008 and…uh…Fireworks
Ordinarily, I try to keep this blog about tech stuff, but well, I have to break from the norm for just a minute! Forgive the self-indulgence. This kind of stuff doesn’t happen every day. Ok, not to me anyway . He’s pretty great, isn’t he? Unfortunately he has my hair–in fact after he received his first bath, he looked like he had a bad run-in with a Van de Graaf generator. Now back to our regularly scheduled geekdom…Huh? Oh, I guess we can apply a bit of Internet meme here. Lessee… in the first picture, the caption could definitely be “Don’t Taze Me, Bro!” Oh, now that I think about it–check out the birth announcement. For those who don’t know: At the hospital, the day...
All Tech No Brains – Little Pebble
Well…we’ve come to the end of our little revisit to my misspent youth. Only one little track left, and we can get back to more important things. Whatever those may be. Like some of those DOSBox articles I promised so long ago… I actually went on this little journey for a number of reasons. First, as I think I already stated, a blog is something of a painfully open little journal. And because of this, all current interests and activities are fodder. But the root cause of all of this springs from my desire to return to the world of audio. This case in particular is some self-flagellating (and induced) training on audio mastering techniques. You will admit, as I do, that I still have much to learn! And if I had had access to software like Ardour...
All Tech No Brains – The Phone Bill
Welcome back! Today I have an unmitigated pile of steaming silliness for your consumption. Wait. Maybe that should be a steaming pile of unmitigated silliness. There’s another of those pesky “flaming herring juggler” problems. (You’re free to do a site search on that one.) In any event, “Phone Bill” is the fourth entry of the five into this dastardly waste of our time and effort. To list some of the high points of its pedigree: It is somewhat politically incorrect. It holds the record for involving more household trash items in the recording phase. It may be the one that still elicits a few chuckles from me when I hear it. Or at least it ties with the giant octopus part of the fifth and final work. Hard to say, really. Once...
All Tech No Brains – My Buddy Eddie
There’s just no good way to classify some things: Duckbilled Platypus Plasma and “My Buddy Eddie” For the purposes of honesty, maybe I should add Richard Simmons to that list. Maybe not. Anyway, heretofore with these recordings I could always offer a general target at which the mockery aimed. This one…well…not so much. From the very first, “Hey, come on in, man…” to the last strains of the ill-advised kudzu solo, “My Buddy Eddie” escapes classification. I guess the closest I can think of is this William Shatner album: The phrasings from this particular piece seem to pop into my mind as much or more than the others for some reason: “Sit back, relax, yeah, be cool,” in particular. Perhaps it...
All Tech No Brains – Purple Tom
OK, so you’ve suffered through the pain that is “Thursday Morning”. Now, let’s move on to some really bad guitar. My apologies to Thomas Joseph Murray IV for maligning his technique, but in this case the kettle is in fact on the darker side of the monochromatic spectrum. To be clear: I was worse on bass than he was on guitar…but still… Really. Bad. Guitar. If my memory serves, Tom and I were looking around for our next great work when we discovered that our portable guitar tuners had built-in microphones…ostensibly to be used when tuning a guitar. However, when connected to a quarter-inch patch cable these pickups would pass sound. Well, since Tom only had his used acoustic, we kinda…uh…pulled out on the...
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