The NAMM convention is this weekend, which means there should be some cool new music gear announcements coming up. So you’ll have to excuse me if I go into full geek mode for a couple days and ramble on about music software and hardware. :-) Ableton have already announced two new versions of Live. There’s … [Read more…]
Nice to see NASA's New Horizons probe has finally launched and begun it's journey to Pluto. I'm personally very excited to finally learn more about mysterious Pluto, even if I will have to wait until 2015 (when the probe's 9 year journey is complete.) Even though I'm of the crowd that doesn't consider Pluto a … [Read more…]
I’ve got this smart playlist on my iPod that picks a couple hundred random tracks from my iTunes library and copies them to my iPod each day, which I then let the iPod play through randomly. My own personal radio station, if you will. And it’s set to only pick songs that I haven’t played … [Read more…]
I guess I did a little better with the exercises last night as I'm actually a little sore today. I still don't think I'm doing enough, but I'll work up to it. Right now, I'm still in the experimental phase (and focused very specifically on my mid-section, as that's where I tend to carry my … [Read more…]
I finally got started on an exercise routine last night, and I'm a bit disappointed by the fact that I'm not really that sore today. Not really sore at all, in fact. I was hurting last night, but today I'm fine. Certainly a sign that I didn't push myself nearly hard enough. I guess I'll … [Read more…]
I won’t try to claim any deep or personal meaning to this track, it’s just some good old thumping Detroit-style techno. I’d clearly been listening to too much Jeff Mills and Robert Hood before I wrote this. Guilty as charged. :-) I also had a little help on this one, my friend Jim (aka ) … [Read more…]
The random playlist on my iPod has been really punk heavy the last couple days for whatever reason. The Germs, The Exploited, Bad Religion, Fugazi, DRI, The Misfits, The Cro-Mags, Buzzcocks. Some of this stuff I haven’t listened to in years, nice to re-discover it. Of course, as I’ve been typing this it’s picked “Dance … [Read more…]
If you read today’s edition of the comic strip FoxTrot, there’s actually an easter egg hidden in it. Take the binary data shown in the strip and convert it to traditional numbers, then look up the associated characters for those values in ASCII: 01011001 = 89 = Y 01001111 = 79 = O 01010101 = … [Read more…]
Damn, I just can’t sit still today, sitting at my desk is driving me completely batty! I keep getting up and going for walks every half hour, and am frantically shaking my foot or tapping my finger or something when I’m actually at my desk. I really don’t want to be sitting here right now! … [Read more…]
I've decided to quit cursing my old brick of an iPod and use it for what it is. I really can't fit a whole lot of stuff on it, so I kept listening to the same handful of albums over and over. I'd grown quite bored with them, and was gearlusting for one of those … [Read more…]
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, never really have and probably never will. I don’t wait around for the end of the year to roll around when I feel a change needs to be made in my life, I do it when the time presents itself as the “right” time to do it. New Year’s … [Read more…]
I spent about an hour earlier today staring at, and meditating on, a tree outside my window. I came to the conclusion that I like trees. When it rains, it drinks the water. When it is sunny it bathes in the warm light. When it is neither it doesn’t sit and fret about when it … [Read more…]
I’ve had An Evening With Kevin Smith sitting on my DVR for months on end, and had never gotten around to watching it. The fact that it’s almost four hours long was certainly a contributing factor, but I finally decided to watch at least a little bit of it last night. I figured I’d sit … [Read more…]
I just read on Jeff Mill’s blog that he’s working on a special 10th anniversary release for “The Bells”. Damn, has it really been 10 years? Not that I heard it when it was first released (it was probably a year or two old when I first caught on, thanks to Jimmy turning me on … [Read more…]
I guess the weight loss thing is working as most of my clothes don't fit terribly well any more. A good chunk of my wardrobe is hanging pretty loosely right now, and pretty soon will likely just not fit any more at all! I need to wait until at least after New Year's to buy … [Read more…]