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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ad firms are trying to change the stereotype of gamers. Well, OK, sure. But isn’t she holding her DS sideways? And doesn’t it look like she’s about to use her stylus on the screen that isn’t touch sensitive?

I just returned from a relatively uneventful visit to the doctor (nothing to be concerned about, thanks for asking). I saw a doctor and a nurse whom I’ve never met before which, of all the things that occurred today, left me with this strange and wonderful thought: the number of people in the world who [...]

The LA Times ran an unusual editorial yesterday. Here’s the first sentence: Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden. — It’s not journalism – Los Angeles Times A greater threat than Osama bin Laden. But in the very next paragraph it says that [...]

I’m planning to read the Tao Te Ching over the next couple of weeks. Why? Curiosity. And I’m interested in eastern philosophy and philosophy generally. Oh, and it’s short. I’m going to read the book in 14 installments starting Monday which are going to be emailed to me for free by a site called Daily [...]

I just cancelled an order with Musicians Friend. I ordered on July 28th and today they still haven’t shipped it. I knew when I ordered it that they were having some kind of warehouse issue but they’d originally given me an estimated shipping date of August 7th and today they still don’t know when it [...]