Archive for August, 2006
- Oceanharp - August 31st, 2006
- No More Aggregations - August 31st, 2006
- The Studio in the Dining Room - August 30th, 2006
- when you need it bad… - August 29th, 2006
- Beware AOL’s Freeware - August 29th, 2006
- Customer (dis)Service - August 28th, 2006
- New Keyboard - August 28th, 2006
- submissive vs. subordinate - August 27th, 2006
- A Monitor for the HDR Set - August 24th, 2006
- Canon ups D-SLR Ante - August 24th, 2006
In case you forgot, I’ve got this little category about strange musical instruments. This is one of them.
This thing is called an Oceanharp, and it’s an acoustical friction instrument that sounds like a synthesizer. Filled with water it produces a magical sound reminiscent of whales.
Find out more, or buy one, here.
Never a dull moment here [...]
Astute visitors will notice that I’ve removed the “Aggregations” page from the site, mostly because the pages I was aggregating weren’t updating with any particular regularity, with a couple of exceptions. No big loss, I don’t think.
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The Studio in the Dining Room
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For lack of a better place, the new keyboard’s been set up in the dining room. The “workstation” is made up from closet organizer units from Target. (!) They were relatively cheap, and, once we decide where to set everything up permanently, I can get a Jerker workstation [...]
Do you remember the commercials years ago: “When you need it bad, we’ve got it good…Florida!” I have no particular affinity for Florida, but boy do I need a vacation! We’re planning an extended weekend in Maine in October, and it can’t come fast enough for me! But at least we’ve got [...]
According to a New York Times article:
“Dealing yet another blow to AOL, a leading software watchdog group warned users away from AOL’s free client software yesterday on the ground that it displayed characteristics consistent with “badware.â€?”
I couldn’t agree more. Having AOL software installed on your computer is a bad thing.
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What’s up with the current lack of customer service?
We’re having problems with two service providers. One, the new landscaping/gutter-cleaning company, failed to cut the lawn on the first promised date, the second promised date, and finally got out here to cut it 10 days later after Geren had to threaten cancellation of the brand-new [...]
After the band disaster last year and subsequent sell-off of everything keyboard related, we decided that it is again time to have a keyboard in the house. However, this time, we had much different requirements in a keyboard — 88 piano-weighted keys, excellent piano sound and easy use were paramount.
We (well, I, really) had decided [...]
Today was the famous (or infamous?) passage in the church’s cycle of readings: the one about “wives submit to your husbands…” &c., but in this particular translation, subordinate was used in place of submissive. This was disturbing to me because subordinate implies a permanent role that is unequal and beneath, whereas submissive implies equality [...]
Researchers have developed a video-display technology that can produce an unlimited range of colors by flexing tiny artificial “muscles” that generate different shades by expanding and contracting in response to electricity.
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Canon have announced thier newest D-SLR, in response to Nikon’s new D-80. The new camera sports a 10.1MP imager with a CCD cleaning system similar to that found on the latest Olympus eVolt models. Canon has chosen to stick with standard CF cards with thier new model (Nikon switched to SD cards), and has kept pricing [...]
