MythTV Frontend Article Published on Linux.com
Here is a link to my article on Linux.com. It is my first effort, and while it turned out pretty well, I think I’ll do some things different next time. And there will be a next time. http://www.linux.com/feature/144179 Give it a read and let me know what you think!
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 – Thursday Morning
Old Tapes On warm summer nights (almost 15 years ago) at around 7:00PM, I would load up my sound gear and head for my friend Tom’s house. He’d be home for the summer from college, and neither of us apparently had much going on. I was working 3rd shift, and he was just a night owl. We’d keep ourselves going on freshly ground flavored coffee his parents had picked up in New Orleans that year. And over the rising steam of blueberry tinged mugs, we would record. And record. As the morning sun found us, I would be packing up my stuff and heading out. But I would not be leaving without a fresh cassette tape from our midnight toil. Many of those tapes are probably long lost. Several only Tom had–we kept them in the “sound library” for...
Efficiency Expert
“Efficiency Expert” by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a very entertaining story. I recommend reading it. More importantly, I recommend downloading it from the above link and using Microsoft Reader to read it for you. Look, there’s a lot of stuff out there that I’d like to read, but who has time. My employer seems to think that I should be doing the work they want me to do for like, what, 8 or 10 hours a day? I mean, in the face of these unreasonable demands upon my time, what kind of investment can I really make to books? Well, Microsoft has come to the rescue. You have no idea how desperately you need Microsoft Reader. Seriously. I can honestly say that it can make the most mundane administrative tasks whiz by. Whenever I’m faced...
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