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Archive for August, 2007

School can’t possibly start soon enough  

School is tantalizingly close. It starts five days from now. It’s been a long Summer and the kids are both well into the tail-end boredom phase of it. For full effect, imagine their mouths gaping open like a trophy bass gasping for air while their eyes bulge out of their heads:
Daughter: Dad, can we watch [...]

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Sampson C01 + Xenyx 802 recording sample  

For anyone who might be considering this gear combo for home recording/podcasting (or any random audio heads out there), here’s an uncompressed sample recording I just made in my office of the Samson C01 condensor microphone connected to the line in through a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer.
Sound sample

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12 chocolate cakes  

It was baking day with the Lovely and Talented Wife. He helped make them. And eat them.

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Friends don’t let friends podcast  

I can see why people become podcasters. It’s the toys.
I bought some recording gear recently, my very first recording purchase, actually. I’d been trying to do some screencasts on another blog and just wasn’t satisfied at all with the sound quality. So I spent about $170 and bought a condenser microphone and a pre-amp/mixer combo [...]

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Science fiction you should see  

A friend of mine asked for a recommendation of good science fiction. Of course, I asked him what he liked first. He answered correctly: Blade Runner.
All kidding aside, I do think Blade Runner is one of the best movies ever made and a brilliant example of the genre; but I’m not a science fiction snob [...]

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