some junk we like
Archive for the ‘some junk we DON’T like’ Category.
I can tell you right now that the new Treo just jumped the shark. Palm just jumped the shark. My treo 650 was the last great thing they ever did. As long as I can still get batteries for the next 3 years or so, that’ll be fine, all will be well in the world. But… putting a microsoft OS on your phone… what a horrible idea. The next phone I get ain’t gonna be a M$ device… count on it.
Bush only “takes responsibility” because there are no consequences for doing so. I just saw this headline “Owners of flooded St. Rita’s Nursing Home charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide, Louisiana attorney general says.”… well, shouldn’t you charge Bush then, too? He says he takes responsibility for the failures of the response. He should have offered transit for those especially at risk for catastrophic events like this. He’s equally negligent, and therefore should be equally culpable for real, tangible consequences.
Technorati Tags: Bush responsibility, incompetent, politics, irresponsible, recall, recall election
I totally agree, Dave. Katrina seems like exactly the kind of thing the president should be ready to spring into action on, and what we get is guitar pluckin’ backstage. A classic george bush “What me worry?” moment. Nicely done.
Indeed, if the best bush can do is show up 5 days later and say “This is unacceptable”, and essentially wring his hands in a “shouldn’t someone do something about this? Gosh!” fashion, we’re in really big trouble if an UN-predictable emergency happens. Big trouble… dude, we’re totally fucked. Perhaps if we weren’t occupying our military and reserve military in a war sold on a giant pack of lies, we’d be able to put more boots on the ground faster.
Worst president ever. 
And then you get Dennis Hastert saying maybe we should really reconsider rebuilding New Orleans. Nice.
Let’s see.. Cost of fully funding the army corps of engineers’ new orleans levee maintenance programs: $27 million. Cost of only giving them less than $6 million: up to $100 Billion. I mean, that’s totally unacceptable. The corp or engineers is back tracking now so that they don’t lose all their funding in the future. Pretty smart, imo.
Seriously, this president is simply costing the country too much money, we should ask him to resign, now. He has no concept of listening to real experts, period. It’s like he’s in a dream world where everyone tells him what he wants, or he throws a tantrum and gets them fired, at best, and endangers their life at bad, or sends them into battle at worst. Meanwhile, our economy is shit, gas has never been more expensive, the ecology is violently attacking us because of us, and he makes these empty promises.
We don’t need talk, we need action. This man has no action for the common good. All his actions are calculations for increasing power for only himself and his cronies. Ask him to resign now. He’s irresponsible, and has his priorities in all the wrong places for our community.
Technorati Tags: politics, katrina
boy, this is hackaday gone way too far.
Equipment being installed on front of existing bank card slot.
The equipment as it appears installed over the normal ATM bank slot.
The PIN reading camera being installed on the ATM is housed in an innocent looking leaflet enclosure.
you’d never know it’s there!
thanks, mom…
here’s some of the 3800 au files that are looking back at me, like tiny little pieces of a confettifized bearer bond or something. This was some sounds we like episode 2, now it’s a cautionary tale for you. Using audacity for a big project? Save often, yes, BACKUP often, too. Saving will hardly preserve your project in a crash. The time it would take me to try to piece this back together would easily equate to the same time it would take to reengineer the audio.
Technorati Tags: audacity
I guess you get what you pay for… I was literally 10 minutes away from a final mix down of “some sounds we like episode 2″ when audacity crashed, and took my hard work with it, regardless of the fact that I’d been meticulously saving along the way. I’d read up on the “audacity crash recovery” pages, but they all seem to treat the tools for single track projects.. whereas mine was many tracks. I guess I was just using the wrong tool for the job.
We (jono and I) had used logic express to edit the first show, and that was like using dynamite to floss with. O – ver – kill. Now I can see, this isn’t going to be easy. What I should have done is just edit the two mono mic tracks in audacity, mix down as separate wav files, then import to garageband or logic express for the addition of the music clips and intro, etc..
note to self: there is no tool that is easy to use and stable and fully featured… stick to the tools that do what you want.
if this hadn’t happened to me so many times in the past, I’d be really pissed… maybe I’m just getting older or something because I’m just really annoyed. 6 hours of editing down the drain. Maybe I’ll be pissed tomorrow after I’ve slept more.
Technorati Tags: audacity
The floor in our new office must be about 1 foot thick and made out of rubber, because it feels like there’s a constant earthquake going on. I was advised to make sure where I wanted to move to would be ok, and I didn’t realize that it wasn’t going to be the noise that would bug me, but the constant vibration from people walking right outside of my cube. Ugh.
we moved offices. we’re in cubes now. I hate it. almost everyone has a cube with a desk that at least somewhat faces towards the cube opening. Mine has my back to the opening. It’s horrible feng shui. I also have a load-bearing support in my office, AND the office thermostat in my cube. A trifecta of bad cube qualities.
update: I got to move to a different cube. woot?
